Sentences with phrase «scientist for decades»

While the novel theory may never live up to the early hype, its innovative tools have helped scientists for decades, and the best may be yet to come.

Uplift associated with the Great Rift Valley of East Africa and the environmental changes it produced have puzzled scientists for decades because the timing and starting elevation have been poorly constrained.

Humans know how to filter light: Stained glass only allows through light of a certain color, and polarized sunglasses block certain light waves.But filtering light based on the direction it's traveling has eluded scientists for decades.

But just how yesterday's savannas became today's sand dunes has stumped scientists for decades.

Fishes account for over half of vertebrate species, but while groups such as mammals, birds and reptiles have been fairly well understood by scientists for decades, knowledge about relationships among many types of fishes was essentially unknown — until now.

First discovered in 1932 and believed to be nearing extinction due to its small population size and unregulated hunting, this species has perplexed scientists for decades because of its elusive nature.

The physics underlying these materials — which appear to defy the conventional laws of physics — has fascinated scientists for decades.

Dubbed quantum weirdness, this wave - particle duality has befuddled scientists for decades.

Determining whether polar ice sheets are shrinking or growing, and what their contribution is to changes in sea level, has motivated polar scientists for decades.

Microscopic machines that swim through the bloodstream to deliver drugs or perform minor surgeries have been a dream of scientists for decades.

There are challenges in making fuel from slime that have dogged scientists for decades.

Death Valley National Park is home to a natural wonder that's baffled scientists for decades: large rocks that mysteriously trudge across a barren lakebed, leaving trails in their wake.

Behavioral scientists for decades have used the FFM to see how people perform at work and interrelate with each other, and it's proven remarkably effective at explaining human behavior.

Their research remedies a problem that has plagued scientists for decades: ocean - observing satellites are incredibly powerful tools, but they can only «see» the surface layer of the ocean, leaving most of its depths out of reach.

The vision of an mRNA drug has beguiled scientists for decades.

The giant moon has intrigued scientists for decades.

Such a «theory of everything,» which has played cat and mouse with scientists for decades, may remain forever out of reach, argue physicists Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow (page 90).

The study also solves a technical issue that has stymied C. elegans scientists for decades.

It's a debate that has vexed scientists for decades: Is the Grand Canyon young or old, geologically speaking?

A pair of research teams recently linked large - scale mutations on one of the body's 23 pairs of chromosomes (which carry cells» genetic code) to autism, a finding that helps shed light on a disorder whose genetic underpinnings have confounded scientists for decades.

Many scientists for decades have considered salt to have serious deficiencies in comparison to some other geologic formations for spent nuclear fuel and high level waste because such heat - generating waste can rapidly deform the rock and create instability that could endanger workers and release radioactivity.

A planet - hunting NASA spacecraft has detected no sign of moon - size black holes yet in the Milky Way galaxy, limiting the chances that such objects could make up most of the «dark matter» that has mystified scientists for decades.

With a large and complex ecosystem of pristine rainforests and jungles, Belize has been attracting biologists and environmental scientists for decades who come to the country to study the varied forms of arthropods which include thousands of species of crustaceans at sea and insects on land.

«These findings reinforce what scientists for decades have observed: that our planet is becoming a warmer place,» said the NOAA «s administrator, Dr Kathryn Sullivan.

This observation has puzzled scientists for decades: How could the complex cell types from eukaryotes have emerged from the simple cells of Archaea?

But the reason coffee makes us pucker has eluded scientists for decades.

But doing it in dogs has stumped scientists for decades.

A new study led by Western University's all - star cosmochemist Audrey Bouvier proves that the Earth and other planetary objects formed in the early years of the Solar System share similar chemical origins — a finding at odds with accepted wisdom held by scientists for decades.

Glacier surges have both fascinated and perplexed scientists for decades.

These fundamental questions have fascinated scientists for decades, and a large part of the answers to them has to do with the processes that determine which regions of a cell's DNA are used to make particular proteins at a particular time.

These and similar experiments have befuddled scientists for decades.

Determining whether polar ice sheets are shrinking or growing, and what their contribution to changes in sea level is, has motivated polar scientists for decades.

They weren't, and this «faint young sun paradox» has puzzled scientists for decades.

Scientists for decades have been seeking ways to repair cartilage without resorting to traditional surgery, which typically involves removing damaged cartilage through an incision in the joint while trying to preserve as much of the healthy tissue as possible.

How nerve cells within the brain communicate with each other over long distances has puzzled scientists for decades.

Why elephants rarely get cancer is a mystery that has stumped scientists for decades.

Scientists for decades have applied similar «phenotypic selection» methods to libraries of standard small - molecule compounds.

Where exactly turtles travel in their first years of life, before returning to coastal areas as adults to forage and reproduce, has puzzled scientists for decades.

Fischer tackled a problem that had stumped scientists for decades: how the oxygen, nitrogen, iron, and chlorine atoms in a hemin molecule are arranged.

The extreme virulence of the «Spanish flu» virus, which killed nearly 50 million people worldwide in 1918 and 1919, has puzzled scientists for decades.

Details of the gene changes behind the peppered - moth and butterfly adaptations had eluded scientists for decades.

Most of the species described thus far have been used by scientists for decades, but new model organisms are still being discovered — and some of these will produce their own minor subfields of science.

The nests of these small seabirds had eluded scientists for decades, until a climber found chicks high atop an ancient tree in 1974.

The number of hives lost to Colony Collapse Disorder, a phenomenon of disappearing bees that has raised concerns among farmers and scientists for a decade, was 84,430 in this year's first quarter, down 27 percent from a year earlier.

But of course, despite 25 + years to top shelf «high end» climate research, no, this is still not enough for Richard and so many others who have refused to listen to the scientists for decades and continue to not look at scientific evidence nor the conclusions.