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► «[M] ore than 300 scholars and
scientists, including seven Nobel laureates, have
signed an open letter calling on Iran to release [chemist Mohammad Hossein] Rafiee» from its «notorious Evin Prison,» where he has been held «since June 2015, after speaking
out in favor of the nuclear deal that was announced a month after he was imprisoned,» Zack Kopplin reported Tuesday at ScienceInsider.
The voyage is the longest test for the drones and also the first science test in the Pacific — an important step in showing that they could replace an aging and expensive array of buoys that are the main way
scientists sniff
out signs of climate - disrupting El Niño events.
Led by Chris McKay, a planetary
scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in California, the Enceladus Life Signatures and Habitability (ELSAH) mission would fly through a plume to seek
out signs of biology lurking within the tiny moon.
An article in The Chronicle of Higher Education points
out that the editors - in - chief of two other prominent scientific publishers, Nature Publishing Group and Elsevier, declined to
sign the letter, although they agreed that journal impact factors shouldn't be used to evaluate individual
scientists.
University researchers who work with dangerous pathogens should keep an eye on each other and report any
signs of suspicious behavior to lab managers, says a panel of life
scientists that was asked by the U.S. government to think of ways to tackle the threat of lab insiders carrying
out a bioterrorist attack.
We would just roast
out here all day in the 110 - degree desert heat, staring across the expanse of dried - up lake bed without seeing any
sign of the «dust devils» (video)-- mini-tornadoes — that the
scientists and arrays of instruments stood ready to record.
While he did not promise or rule
out creation of an NGO, Al Khalili urged the
scientists to
sign up for an advisory committee that would suggest the best ways to promote collaboration.
Scientists all over the country have been warned to handle any packages with caution, and to watch
out for suspicious
signs such as illegible or unfamiliar return addresses, excessive postage, packages marked «confidential» or «personal» — and protruding wires.
The voyage is an important step in showing that such drones, carrying 15 different sensors, could help replace an aging and expensive array of buoys that are the main way
scientists sniff
out signs of climate - disrupting El Niño events.
Thanks to a new development in nuclear physics theory,
scientists exploring expanding fireballs that mimic the early universe have new
signs to look for as they map
out the transition from primordial plasma to matter as we know it.
The
scientists point
out that, in the wild (where there are no magnetic wingmen), the females» preference for local males» vibrations could be an early
sign of speciation in the red mason bees: If the females of one subspecies stop mating with the other subspecies entirely, the two lineages may eventually become incompatible and diverge into two separate species.
The largest ozone hole ever seen has opened up over Antartica, a
sign that ozone - depleting gases churned
out years ago are just now coming to their peak, NASA
scientists reported September 8, 2000.
In addition to myself and Sally Fallon, our petition was
signed by three worldclass
scientists: Kilmer S. McCully, MD, father of the homocysteine theory of heart disease, winner of the 1998 Linus Pauling Award and author of The Homocysteine Revolution and The Heart Revolution; Mary G. Enig, PhD, the world renowned biochemist and nutritionist who exposed the dangers of trans fats in the food supply back in the 1970s, vice president of WAPF, author of Know Your Fats and co-author of Eat Fat Lose Fat and Nourishing Traditions; and Galen D. Knight, PhD, a biochemist who has carried
out pioneering research on the role of vitalethine in humoral immunity and cancer development.
The best stuff in Pacific Rim had nothing to do with missiles and monsters but the underground economy, the black market trading in kaiju parts, the mad
scientists trying to figure
out how to stop the world's end, the idea that our species was on the brink of extinction thanks to an external threat that showed no
signs of slowing down any time soon.
There are
signs, some
scientists warned on Thursday, that overheated descriptions of looming dangers coming
out of the conference could actually backfire.
Andy, I realized this week that while I've been talking with a lot of
scientists over the past year about the
signs that our global economic resources are running
out, sharp price rises for commodities being one, that I've never heard it mentioned in the popular press that scarcity could be caused by using things up.
In e-mail messages and interviews, many other
scientists said they supported the group's push for a greatly expanded effort in basic energy research but did not
sign the letter because they differed on the appropriate amount to be spent or on some aspects of how such an initiative should be carried
out.
Last week I traveled to Seoul to deliver an open letter
signed by some of the world's most prestigious climate and environmental
scientists urging President Moon Jae - in to reconsider South Korea's phase -
out of nuclear energy.
Scientists monitoring the highest levels of the atmosphere say they have detected a slowing in the rate of destruction of Earth» s protective veil of ozone, the first
sign that the phasing
out of chemicals that harm the ozone layer is having a restorative effect.
How can one be guilty of denunciating the ones responsible for knowingly harming people, both directly and indirectly, against the many advices of individuals, groups, some politicians and many notorious
scientists and nobel prizes, on all continents through many generations, voluntarily ignoring the
signs visible everyday either in the media or directly
out their own -LSB-...]
Analogies of getting a heart condition checked
out by a motor mechanic are relevant when comparing the findings of Cook et al (ie 97 % of expert climate
scientists agree that climate change is caused by human activity) versus the OISM petition,
signed predominantly by non-climate, possibly non-practising, unpublished, general
scientists.
On 5th July, Shellenberger sent to President Moon Jae - in a letter
signed by 13 nuclear and climate
scientists, urging him to «reconsider the South Korean government's policy to phase
out nuclear energy.»
Here is a list of 31,487
scientist who have
signed a petition saying they don't believe in Global Warming, the closest thing I could find on the other side is where 375
scientists signed this letter telling you not to pull
out of the Paris Agreement.
It was
signed by 16
scientists who don't subscribe to the conventional wisdom that climate change is happening and is largely man - made — but as Wednesday's letter points
out, many of those who
signed don't actually work in climate science.
Within hours of arriving in Seoul I delivered to a representative of President Moon an open letter
signed by climate
scientist James Hansen, Whole Earth Catalog founder Stewart Brand, Pulitzer Prize - winning historian Richard Rhodes, and dozens of other climate and environmental experts, warning of the impacts of a nuclear phase -
out.
As Bill McKibben pointed
out in The Guardian, it's almost impossible to get so many
scientists to
sign off on a statement so categorical.