Sentences with phrase «scientist by any stretch»

I am NOT a scientist by any stretch of the imagination.

I'm not a scientist by any stretch of the imagination, but I can still understand scientific principles.

Not exact matches

Because Virgo's detector isn't oriented parallel to the LIGO detectors, scientists could study the polarization of the waves — the specific pattern by which they stretch and squeeze spacetime — for the first time.

«The Population Bomb,» a controversial book by environmental scientist Paul Ehrlich predicting widespread starvation as a result of population growth, turned off a generation of thinkers, in part by being wrong (at least in the short term) and in part by seeming anti-human, continuing a tradition that stretches back to the «Dismal Theorem» of Thomas Malthus.

Gradual downsizing of those tools, including oval hand axes, occurred from 615,000 to 499,000 years ago, a stretch characterized by frequent shifts between wet and dry conditions, the scientists say.

Scientists have discovered a new way for genetic mutations to lead to cancer — by rendering neighboring stretches of DNA more likely to be mutated.

Also, by using devices that contain large stretches of permeable membranes that separate salt water from fresh, scientists have tapped the voltage difference that exists between them.

These changes, scientists predict, will be caused by a gravitational wave that stretches and squeezes space - time as it passes through the instruments.

By selectively adding or deleting stretches of DNA in the (artificially) fertilized cell, scientists could knock out genes for a disease like diabetes or insert genes coding for extra height or intelligence.

In 1972, scientists reported seeing something similar to the clearest patterns, so - called «transform faults» that make staircase - shaped cracks, by stretching a tray of melted wax that was hardened gradually by a fan.

«Throughout the irradiated films, we saw individual chains of defects created by the collisions between the incident ions and nucleus that broke the perfect atomic order, causing the lattice to locally compress or stretch out,» said coauthor Lijun Wu, a materials scientist at Brookhaven who led the microscopy work.

The articles contained in this collection remind us of an epoch when experts debated whether the North Pole was surrounded by an inland sea that could be sailed; a thick, smooth ice sheet that could be easily traversed by a sleigh; or — as proved to be the case, to the dismay of explorers and the fascination of scientists — devastatingly unstable stretches of open water within fields of shifting sea ice.

The map, unprecedented in its size and scope, will allow scientists to test theories of dark energy, the mysterious force that appears to cause the accelerating expansion and stretching of the universe first discovered in observations of supernovae by groups led by Saul Perlmutter at Berkeley Lab and by Brian Schmidt, now at Australian National University, and Adam Riess, now at Johns Hopkins University.

Scientists study dorsal closure, which occurs during the development of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, to gain insights into wound healing in humans, as both processes involve closing a gap in the skin by stretching the surrounding epithelial cells over it.

In April 2007, the scientists announced that they detected the predicted shift caused by the stretching of spacetime (the «geodetic effect»).

Warm ocean waters that sucked the color and vigor from sweeping stretches of the world's greatest expanse of corals last month were driven by climate change, according to a new analysis by scientists, who are warning of worse impacts ahead.

Megadrought could stretch from San Francisco Boulder, Colorado and until the Gulf of California by 2100, according to the scientists.

Though the research is currently limited to animals only, scientists have been able to significantly increase muscle building when muscles have been placed under loaded stretches - presumably by creating additional muscle damage and by stimulating the same gene pathways switched on by the tension of muscle contraction.

Newswise — SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY (February 6, 2017)-- In two recent peer - reviewed papers published by Nutrients and Growth Hormone and IGF - 1 Research, Skidmore College exercise scientist Paul Arciero and colleagues report proven benefits of consuming moderate amounts of protein regularly throughout the day (protein - pacing) combined with a multi-dimensional exercise regimen that includes resistance exercise, interval sprint exercise, stretching and endurance exercise.

This month, the journal Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism published a study by four distinguished exercise scientists who analyzed more than 200 studies of how stretching affects subsequent exercise.

Today a new set of fundamental holdings of land surface air temperature records stretching back deep into the 19th Century has been released as a result of several years of effort by a multinational group of scientists.

* We have been warned by scientists and environmentalists for decades that the nation's water resources are dangerously over stretched, that this is leading to the severe degradation to our aquatic ecosystems and is subjecting our agricultural economy to unacceptable risk (see here for example).

He ominously warns: «Climate scientists are used to seeing the range of weather extremes stretched by global warming, but few episodes appear as remarkable as this week's unusual heat over the Arctic.»

This is a person who can not by any stretch of the imagination be described as a climate scientist, and one who I'm sure many climate scientists would not wish to think of as a champion of their profession.

In 1996, Japanese scientists discovered A. marina living on the light left over by Chl a organisms and able to stretch into the far - red and near - infrared through the novel pigment Chl d instead of Chl a. Research at GISS has quantified the photon energy use efficiency of A. marina in comparison to Chl a organisms, and is now turned toward investigating its light regime in nature to ascertain its kinetics of light use and competitive ecological niche.

By gently and repeatedly stretching the crystal, scientists move «dislocations» (rows of atom - level defects) to free surfaces, where they're ultimately forced out.