Sentences with phrase «science over the past century»

In announcing his plan, Shaw paid tribute to the historic significance of the 2016 centennial of The National Park Service, and the remarkable evolution of science over the past century.

So the story goes in Front Page Physics (Institute of Physics Publishing, pp 222, # 29.95), a collection of newspaper reports that announced memorable events in the physical sciences over the past century.

Thanks to advances in medical science over the past century, humans have never lived longer than we do right now.

In retrospect, however, the frequent appeals to science and social science over the past century were usually not much more than rhetorical gambits meant to persuade the public and to disable the opposition.

Not exact matches

Over the past century science has made lots of advances into understanding the many social meanings of body language.

A less sophisticated illustration of this can be seen in the way that science fiction has envisioned various atheistic scientific futures: over the course of the past century such visions of the future have shifted from being utopias to being dystopias.

Witham suggests that both alternatives fail to do justice to the complex relation between science and religion over the past century.

«We've found that land, rivers, and oceans are all strongly related to a winter climate pattern off the western coast of North America, and that climate pattern has become more variable over the past century,» said lead author Bryan Black, associate professor of marine science at UT - Austin.

The «that's what they thought then» response implies that because science advanced rapidly over the past century or so, it must continue to do so, possibly forever.

A breezy account of the evolution of science over the past few centuries is followed by an account of «how to be a scientist», which begins with how to go about entering the profession and winds up with making significant discoveries and winning prizes.

In the paper Retreating Glacier Fronts on the Antarctic Peninsula over the Past Half - Century published this week in Science, we presented new data describing trends in 244 marine glacier fronts on the Antarctic Peninsula over the last 50 years.

Meanwhile the Science Museum's display of 100 robots created over the past five centuries is set to include a 16th - century mechanical monk.

Référence: Retreating Glacier Fronts on the Antarctic Peninsula over the Past Half - Century A. J. Cook, A. J. Fox, D. G. Vaughan, J. G. Ferrigno, Science, Vol 308, Issue 5721, 541 - 544, 22 April 2005 [DOI: 10.1126 / science.1Science, Vol 308, Issue 5721, 541 - 544, 22 April 2005 [DOI: 10.1126 / science.1science.1104235]

Federal funding in the physical sciences as a portion of our gross domestic product has fallen by nearly half over the past quarter century.

Retreating Glacier Fronts on the Antarctic Peninsula over the Past Half - Century A. J. Cook, A. J. Fox, D. G. Vaughan, J. G. Ferrigno Science 22 April 2005: Vol.

Global warming is caused by the Sun, especially its radiation over the past century plus or minus a half century which is dominantly absorbed and stored in the ocean because the ocean is dark and because it has a high heat capacity (inertia in some Earth sciences).

The combination of all these pressures from the Left has repeatedly skewed science over the past half - century.

over the past half a century, and since 1988 some have engaged in ongoing efforts to sow doubt about climate science and block legal limits on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.

Our study shows that if corals can adapt to warming that has occurred over the past 40 to 60 years, some coral reefs may persist through the end of this century,» said study lead author Cheryl Logan, Ph.D., an assistant professor in California State University Monterey Bay's Division of Science and Environmental Policy.

Indeed, the first point made in this Skeptical Science article is «A variety of different measurements find steadily rising sea levels over the past century.».

Despite early knowledge about climate change, electric utilities have continued to invest heavily in fossil fuel power generation over the past half a century, and since 1988 some have engaged in ongoing efforts to sow doubt about climate science and block legal limits on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.

Science has earned its stripes over the past four centuries.

(06/02/2013) Rainforests in South America have endured three previous extreme global warming events in the past, suggesting they will survive a projected 2 - 6 degree rise in temperatures over the coming century, reports a study published in the Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Science.

Global change science has focused on the emergence of industrial processes over the past three centuries as the critical period within which anthropogenic global change processes, including land use, became significant forces driving global changes in the Earth System (14 ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ — 18).