Sentences with phrase «science takes a decade»

Training for a career in science takes a decade or more, and there's no way to know what the job market will look like years from now.

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The BBC piece by By Renuka Rayasam takes this science and runs with it in a direction that will please anyone who has shuffled foggy - headed through decades of early morning start times.
Both decades of experience working with new families and science indicate that essentially moms dump dads when the baby arrives, and the way moms fall back in love with dad is by seeing him taking care of their baby.
Yet these environments are hard to find in science, and because increasing the representation of women in male environments takes time — decades earlier than years — this is more of a long term option.
Some paradigm shifts take a long time before a theoretical framework emerges, and sometimes anomalies lie dormant for decades or even centuries before being accepted and changing the course of science.
Jon: Well, as we traveled down the western side of the peninsula, we stopped at several science bases, [the] American base of Palmer, the Ukrainian base of Vernadsky; we met Brits and Russians who worked and liv [ed] ing down there for a decade and each one of them would take us out and show us a glacier then say «Well, look at that glacier over there, look at that new island over there and that new land bridge.
«One of the real recognitions of the past decade or two is that the answers to the challenges that we face are at the boundaries between the disciplines and that in fact much of the most exciting science is also taking place at the boundaries between the disciplines,» says David Blockstein, a senior scientist with the National Council for Science and the Environment, a nongovernmental organization based in Washington, D.C., that promotes science - based environmental decision - science is also taking place at the boundaries between the disciplines,» says David Blockstein, a senior scientist with the National Council for Science and the Environment, a nongovernmental organization based in Washington, D.C., that promotes science - based environmental decision - Science and the Environment, a nongovernmental organization based in Washington, D.C., that promotes science - based environmental decision - science - based environmental decision - making.
Still, while it is exciting to see the rapid advance in Indian science, the emergence of world - class institutions, and the increase in collaborations and external engagement, Aseem Ansari, a professor of genomics and biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and the founder and director of the Khorana and S.N. Bose Scholars exchange programs, reckons «it will take another decade to remodel national research infrastructure and create scientific ecosystems that are comparable to what one has access to at most R1 research institutions in the U.S.»
This loss of decades» worth of experience will take even more time to rebuild, precisely as the complexity and pace of the world's science - based challenges increase.
Even back then, explains Marzari, a physicist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, his now - ancient handset took just 40 seconds to carry out quantum - mechanical calculations that once took many hours on a supercomputer — a feat that not only shows how far such computational methods have come in the past decade or so, but also demonstrates their potential for transforming the way materials science is done in the future.
If a kid can come away from a science or engineering program in that decade and think, «I like this, I can do this, this is an option as a career,» then he or she can go on from there and take steps to get the necessary college education.
It should not take decades for government agencies to catch up with the latest findings of science.
Specifically this Notice: 1) develops principles based on 20 years» experience of providing instruction in responsible conduct of research by the scientific research community; 2) is more specific about who should participate, how often instruction should occur, and the form that instruction should take; 3) addresses issues that have arisen as the practice of biomedical, behavioral and clinical science has evolved; and 4) provides guidance to applicants, peer reviewers and NIH staff in determining how well specific plans for instruction in responsible conduct of research compare with the best practices accumulated over the past two decades by the research training community.
«Especially when we talk about investing in science and innovation, where the fruits of those investments may take years or even decades to materialize, we need to make sure that we have a data infrastructure in place to document and evaluate their outcomes,» said Li.
«It typically takes a decade or two to get a material from discovery to commercial use,» said Chris Wolverton, the Jerome B. Cohen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering in Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering, who is an early pioneer in using computation and AI to predict new materials.
Avian Genetic Rescue: Although the de-extinction of the Passenger Pigeon and the Heath Hen will likely take a decade, avian de-extinction research is already generating foundational science that could transform bird conservation.
«Yoga» — a science and an art form that took birth in India, is being recognized and practiced on a global platform since decades.
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It has taken decades to finally make it to the big - screen, but now you're going to have to wait even longer to set your big eyes on the James Cameron produced, Robert Rodriguez directed science fiction epic, Alita: Battle Angel.
Unfortunately, despite these changes in high - school course taking over the past two decades, student achievement in core liberal - arts courses has not shown dramatic improvement, and American students have repeatedly fallen short on international comparisons of achievement, particularly in math and science.
Parenthood in my 30s led me to take up my spiritual journey, and after several decades of being active in Unitarian Universalism, in my 60s I have also come to think of myself as a progressive Christian as well as a UU — a return to the faith I grew up in, but on a different level, taking scripture seriously but not literally (and for me, serious literature can be scripture too, especially poetry, and scriptures of other faiths...) I am content to say God is a mystery, a word we use to point to all that is good and beautiful and healing, a creative energy at work that we can experience through our loving relationships, through art and music, through the pursuit of science, and in the «church» of nature.
Looking at the freedoms that define us — from the vote to the press; the values that have transformed us, from empathy to inclusion to service; the institutions that sustain us, such as public education; and the traits that helped form our young country, such as the audacity to take on daunting challenges in science and medicine — Rather brings to bear his decades of experience on the frontlines of the world's biggest stories.
In the last few decades, science has taken a deeper look at our constant companions and we have learned an incredible amount about how dogs experience the world, interpret it, and how we can help them understand us better to avoid conflicts (usually in the form of teeth sinking into skin).
For more than two decades, Fishman's largely abstract work in different media has explored the human relationship to science and medicine by mixing optical patterns with vibrant colors and representational elements taken from pharmaceutical and scientific imaging systems.
When Aussies are really serious they do things like overturn decades of accepted medical consensus aka «false beliefs» by using Science to take our collective knowledge another step further.
As far as the time delay issue is concerned, I'll once again quote from the Skeptical Science post: «The reason the planet takes several decades to respond to increased CO2 is the thermal inertia of the oceans.»
Today, science is typically portrayed as self - correcting, but it took decades for most evolutionary biologists to disassociate themselves from the junk science of eugenics.
I'm a meteorologist, not a climatologist, although I have taken a great interest in that field of science in the last decade.
That it took most other scientists some decades is quite believable — and simply reflects the very conservative nature of science.
Historically, some of the most important advances in science have taken years and even decades to be understood and appreciated.
Other scientists use nonlethal darts to take skin core biopsies, said Dr. Phillip J. Clapham, a whale biologist at the Northeast Fisheries Science Center in Woods Hole, Mass., who estimated that 3,500 research darts had been fired into humpback whales in the North Atlantic over the last decade.
Over the next two decades, when science says aggressive steps must be taken to curb greenhouse gas emissions, several hundred million people in the world will be getting electricity for the first time — and a lot of it will be fueled by coal.
And even if the current 18 - year trend were to end, it would still take nearly 25 years for average global temperature figures to reflect the change, said Michaels, who has a Ph.D. in ecological climatology and spent three decades as a research professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia.
When one sees even experts such as yourself talking in terms of estimated probabilities of specific propositions, the message might be taken by some to be: why don't we all pack this in for a decade or two and come back when the science is better understood?
Half of the warming in the 20th century occurred before CO2 was a problem, yet no on in the scientific community has a reason for this, and the pause has continued with an increase of 8 % of CO2 in the atmosphere, there is still no credible explanation for it, and it actually took the climate science community over a decade to admit there was one.
Like the cooling of the 1970's that they have tried to push into oblivion, in the future they will down play the certainty and alarm that the whole scam was sold on, and try to shift the narrative to the slow methodical march of good science solving a very complex problem that involved a few dead end ideas that took decades to prove were non-productive.
And: «Meanwhile, climate deniers, taking pages from the creationists» PR playbook, have manufactured doubt about fundamental issues in climate science that were decided scientifically decades ago.»
Scientists from the University of Miami's school of marine and atmospheric science established the Atlantic's hunger for carbon dioxide by simply looking at data samples taken a decade apart.
The rise of the environmental movement began in the 1970s, but really took off in the 1980s with the greatest hoax of the modern era, the claim based entirely on corrupt computer models and astonishingly stupid «science», that the Earth was within a decade, then twenty, then fifty years, of being destroyed by the rise of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere.
I may be too pessimistic, but based on the history of my science field, this one will be a long fight, it will take decades of non-warming before the evidence of the data becomes heavier than the political bias in the eyes of the average new student.
We are very sure that it will take years... maybe decades to restore real science back to climatology... based on the accuracy and track record of predictions & predictors.
I would however point out that an instance of North Dakota flooding or freezing is not «global» nor is it indicative of a trend — it is regional and is a single event, and let's please not be myopic here and muddle the issues, as it's even worse «science» to take a single isolated event in time and geography and then attempt to extrapolate it out across the entire globe and into future decades than to depict an out - of - context «hockey stick» of historic data as is being pointed out here.
It doesn't take an advanced science degree to see there has been virtually no trend in the temperature data in the last decade or this century even as CO2 has increased 5.5 %.
When the IPCC's «science» portion of the Assessment was released last fall, it was immediately faulted for being based upon climate models which have greatly overpredicted the amount of climate change that has been occurring largely because they completely missed the slowdown of the rate of global warming that has taken place over the past two decades.
That may take decades to advance, and may never be a truly settled science.
I saw Plimer's first foray into the climate change arena about a decade ago when he took part in a debate / discussion at a Science at the Pub event at Stewarts in Carlton opposite Anne Henderson Sellers.
With climate science, most predictions will take decades to validate with much certainty.
One is struck by the fact that virtually the same discussion could have taken place a decade ago, or even two decades ago (see the Report of the Consultative Group on Research and Education in Law, mandated by Canada's Social Science and Humanities Research Council, Law and Learning / Le droit et le savoir).
Within a decade, it was all science and autorouting software had pretty much taken over the job.
Many of the genomic pioneers from this past decade, as well as decades prior, will be gathering in Cambridge, MA next week at the GET Conference to take stock of how far the science and commerce of genomics has come, and project where it is heading in the decades to come.
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