Sentences with phrase «scientists about the fundamental»

When such multiple genetic changes occur before or early after conception, they may inform scientists about fundamental knowledge underlying many diseases.

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On a fundamental level, scientists in both academia and industry must change some of our attitudes about data.

On the other is the theoretical physicist Peter Higgs, who this year became a shoo - in for a future Nobel prize after scientists at Cern in Geneva showed that his theory about how fundamental particles get their mass was correct.

In recent decades, theoretical developments and widespread availability of powerful computers have drastically changed the sorts of problems that scientists and technologists can tackle, greatly altered the methods they use, and brought about major upheaval in rather fundamental concepts used in scientific work.

«Being a scientist is, at the most fundamental level, about being able to study what's exciting to you,» says Yoder.

Furthermore, when faced with decisions about sharing, scientists should consider seriously the broader impact of their decisions on the fundamental characteristics of the scientific enterprise and, when at all possible, err on the side of openness.

In other words, the importance of this work is in illuminating the fundamental workings of the brain - scientists can now splash away with their own self - generated electromagnetic waves and learn a great deal about how brainwaves respond and what they do.

Fussenegger thinks that genome editing will be the favoured approach for therapies, but that writing genomes from scratch will appeal to scientists interested in fundamental questions about how genomes evolve, for instance.

In addition to helping scientists answer fundamental questions about the nature of matter, the material is theorized to have a wide range of applications, including as a room - temperature superconductor.

«When scientists designed the mission and the instrumentation on the probes, they looked at the scientific unknowns and said, «This is a great chance to unlock some fundamental knowledge about how particles are accelerated,»» said Nicola J. Fox, deputy project scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. «With five identical suites of instruments on board twin spacecraft — each with a broad range of particle and field and wave detection — we have the best platform ever created to better understand this critical region of space above Earth.»

Advanced Light Source scientists developed the instrumentation and measurement algorithms, which were used to help answer fundamental questions about battery materials and behavior identified by the UIC team.

By showing that all classical computers are essentially alike, this discovery enabled scientists and mathematicians to ask fundamental questions about computation without getting bogged down in the minutiae of computer architecture.

UTHealth scientists working to learn more about the fundamental causes of sickle cell disease are from left to right Anren Song, Ph.D., Kaiqi Sun, Yang Xia, M.D., Ph.D., and Yujin Zhang, Ph.D..

As scientists gain the power to see the brain in its full complexity, he argues, they will finally be able to answer some of the most fundamental questions about the mind.

For example, how genetic programs affect the function of specific cell types, how they vary early or later in life and how dysfunction in these programs might contribute to disease, all of which could help scientists learn more about the fundamental workings of the brain.

Scientists at the National Institutes of Health are reporting new, unexpected details about the fundamental structure of collagen, the most abundant protein in the human body.

The work raises hopes of dazzling medical applications and also forces scientists to reconsider fundamental ideas about how cells grow up.

This radical programme, which began in 1987, seeks to bring about fundamental changes in the way in which science is taught in American schools, not by «top down» reform — restructuring the curriculum and then expecting teachers to adopt the new improved version wholesale — but by establishing partnerships between science teachers and professional scientists working in universities and industry.

Scientists have a sense of the steps leading to the explosion, but there is no agreed upon fundamental process about what happens during the «bounce» phase when the implosion at the core reverses direction.

When sewage flowed from 20 Class 1 wells near Miami into the Upper Floridan aquifer, it challenged some of scientists» fundamental assumptions about the injection system.

The Institute: brings together a wide range of scientists, including physicists, engineers, chemists, biologists as well as HMS clinicians to address fundamental questions about the behavior and functioning of biological systems; allows biologists, engineers, and clinicians to potentially use such knowledge to foster applications and new technologies; and provides a way for the tool - developers (physicists, engineers, computer scientists) to work with the tool - users (biologists, chemists, clinicians) in the early stages of scientific inquiry and encourage scientific collaboration at the innovation stage of tool development.

The Scientist spoke with the developers of four recent applications of single - cell lineage tracing experiments — examples that reflect the power biologists have in 2016 to answer fundamental questions about how tissues and organs form.

By understanding the fundamental reactions that sequester carbon away from the atmosphere, scientists can inform industry and policymakers about the feasibility and safety of different options.

Gladstone comprises a group of scientists whose concern for patients and curiosity about the fundamentals of biology converge in a distinctive and unique approach that goes beyond interdisciplinary research.

Additionally, Virgo's detector faced the same gravitational waves at a completely different angle, which gave scientists a fundamental new piece of information about gravitational waves — the polarization of gravitational waves, which is how space - time is distorted in the three spatial dimensions.

Supporting the mission of the Office of Nuclear Physics in DOE - SC, FRIB will enable scientists to make discoveries about the properties of rare isotopes (that is, short - lived nuclei not normally found on Earth), nuclear astrophysics, fundamental interactions, and applications for society, including in medicine, homeland security, and industry.

Scientists whose research is relevant to education investigate fundamental questions about the development of human competence.

The more I talk to social scientists and psychologists about humanity's growing pains in its current population and appetite surge, the more it's clear that the «market failures» described by economists examining environmental issues derive from fundamental patterns of behavior rooted deep in the brain.

How then, and why, have climate scientists come to a consensus about a very complex scientific problem that the scientists themselves acknowledge has substantial and fundamental uncertainties?

A team of international scientists is due to set off for the world's biggest iceberg, fighting huge waves and the encroaching Antarctic winter, in a mission aiming to answer fundamental questions about the impact of climate change in the polar regions.The scientists, led by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), are trying to reach a newly revealed ecosystem that had been hidden for 120,000 years below the Larsen C ice shelf on the Antarctic peninsula.In July last year, part of the Larsen C ice shelf calved away, forming a huge iceberg - A68 - which is four times bigger than London, and revealing life beneath for the first time.

Indeed, of all the silly things that have been said about the climate by political operatives and others who can not accept the 150 - year old physics of greenhouse warming for ideological reasons, perhaps the silliest is the claim that scientists do not agree about those fundamental physics.

... In a recently published book titled Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming, the technically qualified authors (scientists all) point to four reasons: a conflict among scientists in different disciplines; fundamental scientific uncertainties concerning how the global climate responds to the human presence; failure of the UN's IPCC to provide objective guidance to the complex science; and bias among researcheScientists Disagree About Global Warming, the technically qualified authors (scientists all) point to four reasons: a conflict among scientists in different disciplines; fundamental scientific uncertainties concerning how the global climate responds to the human presence; failure of the UN's IPCC to provide objective guidance to the complex science; and bias among researchescientists all) point to four reasons: a conflict among scientists in different disciplines; fundamental scientific uncertainties concerning how the global climate responds to the human presence; failure of the UN's IPCC to provide objective guidance to the complex science; and bias among researchescientists in different disciplines; fundamental scientific uncertainties concerning how the global climate responds to the human presence; failure of the UN's IPCC to provide objective guidance to the complex science; and bias among researchers.»

«It's really a question about economics and engineering and not a question of fundamental resource availability,» said Ken Caldeira, a climate scientist at the Palo Alto, Calif., campus of the Washington - based Carnegie Institution for Science.