Sentences with phrase «scientists earlier this decade»

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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.

Today, however, due to the recent throttling of the nation's research budgets, the pain that early - career scientists have endured for decades is reaching into the ranks of the formerly comfortable.

Four or five decades ago, scientists had their own labs in their late 20s or early 30s.

The shallow, salty seas spotted in 2004 evaporated from scientists» view of early Mars within a few years, but even so, the past decade's half - dozen martian missions have finally delivered.

Those opportunities, though, may not be where they used to be, nor are the risks, incentives, and demands early - career scientists face the same as those of a decade ago.

Glimcher, who remembers her struggle 2 decades ago to cope with child - care responsibilities as an NIH postdoc, recently lobbied successfully for a program at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to help scientists with early parenting.

During the early 2000s, environmental scientists studying methane emissions noticed something unexpected: the global concentrations of atmospheric methane (CH4)-- which had increased for decades, driven by methane emissions from fossil fuels and agriculture — inexplicably leveled off.

But, arguably, he died as a scientist three decades earlier.

Scientists have been arguing for decades over whether such structures are remnants of early microbial life, but the Australian formations are the best evidence yet.

The findings — presented this week at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union — prompted warnings from scientists that the Arctic Ocean might have hit a «tipping point» that could leave it clear blue by 2012, decades earlier than most had predicted.

A decade after beginning work on an earthquake early warning system, scientists and engineers are fine - tuning a U.S. West Coast prototype that could be in limited public use in 2018.

Although it reveals some volatility over the last 2 decades in the jobless rate for early - career scientists, the rate remains very low.

The government's Office of Research Integrity had earlier found Popovic guilty of «relatively minor» misconduct based on what the appeals board called a «handful of words and notations... in one heavily edited paper written by a scientist with limited English skills during a volatile period of scientific discovery a decade ago».

«Solving of a decade long mystery could help in fight against TB: Scientists have solved a decade - old mystery that could eventually lead to the development of earlier treatments for one of the world's deadliest diseases.»

Scientists have solved a decade - old mystery that could eventually lead to the development of earlier treatments for one of the world's deadliest diseases, which affects up to 2 billion people.

Although nobody has yet detected gravitational waves, detectors now being built in the US and Italy («Gravity's secret signals», New Scientist, 26 November 1994), which will become operational early next decade, should be sensitive enough to detect the gravitational waves released during the last few minutes of a binary neutron star merger.

The new paper is unique for showing that the climate change signal is constant across decades, said John Fasullo, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and author of the earlier Australia study.

During his tenure, Josh was a leader in elevating the participation of students and early career scientists in AAS's annual Congressional Visits Day and organized the Society's first congressional briefings on the astronomical sciences in over a decade.

On February 18, 2015, three preeminent scientists came together to discuss the latest results, what they mean for the theory of inflation, and what we can expect to learn about the very early universe in the coming decade.

NASA chief scientist Ellen Stofan also said that she believed in alien life and with the advances in science and technology, she thinks that proof of alien life forms will finally be found in as early as about a decade.

For decades, scientists have turned to DNA to learn about our past, but their studies have been limited to eras much earlier than recorded history.

If the recipients of LRPs and early career awards are successful at the next stage of their careers, the average age of physician - scientists should begin to decrease during the next decade (that decrease in age may not be dramatic, however, since research careers now begin later in life than a generation ago because of lengthened training requirements).

For decades, scientists believed that the atmosphere of early Earth was highly reduced, meaning that oxygen was greatly limited.

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.

In the 1960s, scientists used their decades of observations to report that smoking, elevated cholesterol, diabetes mellitus, high blood pressure, and family members with early heart disease could predict the development of heart problems.

In the late 1980s, scientists realized that alpha - lipoic acid, a compound initially classified as a vitamin when it was discovered three decades earlier, possessed potent antioxidant properties that could prevent healthy cells from getting damaged by unstable oxygen molecules called free radicals.

Brendan Fraser stars as scientist Trevor Anderson, whose brother Max (Jean Michel Par) went missing a decade earlier while conducting fieldwork during a spree of unusual seismic activity.

«For the past decade, a diverse group of distinguished scientists has worked to translate complex research about early brain development into language that is scientifically accurate, highly credible, understandable to nonscientists, and useful to public decision makers.

Several months earlier, scientists had reported that the Gangotri glacier, the principal glacier that feeds the Ganges River, is melting at an accelerating rate and could disappear entirely in a matter of decades.

The PSC scientists have now established that spring melt has begun on average three to nine days earlier per decade, and the freeze similarly later each decade.

Such a tipping point, for example, would be an ice free Arctic, which could happen within two decades or less (some scientists believe as early as 2013).

If our climate continues to warm at today's rate, scientists expect North Sea plankton that respond to temperature cues to bloom even earlier in the coming decades.7 With a growing mismatch in life cycles among various species of plankton, as well as further climate - induced shifts in their abundance and distribution, effects on the North Sea ecosystem — including cod — are projected to be considerable.7, 8

For a series of papers he published in the late sixties and early seventies, he chose to tackle a complex phenomenon involving thermal currents in the atmosphere that scientists had been trying to explain for decades.

Since about 1970, NOAA's Climate Extreme Index — which tracks the percentage of the country affected by climate extremes over time — has shown an upward trend that is notably different than the activity in earlier decades, she told an audience of scientists at a talk earlier in the day.

However, the prognosis could be even worse: The scientists involved in the study from this March speculated that the era of never - ending global coral bleaching may have already arrived, albeit several decades earlier than was predicted even just last year.

Martin Parry, a climate scientist with the Met Office, said destructive changes in temperature, rainfall and agriculture were now forecast to occur several decades earlier than thought.

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.

Many scientists believe that the Arctic Ocean will be ice - free in the summertime within the next decade or two, and some say that this could occur as early as 2016.

Later I read in Weart's History of Global Warming that young scientists 3 decades earlier had begun to realize that their research wasn't about the abstract future, but for changes that would occur in their lifetime.

I think it is great that others are acknowledging the solar effects on climate, something which has been poo pooed since the global warming bandwagon got supercharged in the very early 1990s, a little more than a decade after the scientists fretted over dangerous cooling.

As the Endangered Species Act nears its 40th birthday at the end of December, conservation biologists are coming to terms with a danger not foreseen in the early 1970s: global climate change Federal fisheries scientists have published a special section in this month's issue of Conservation Biology that outlines some considerations for coming decades.

Early experiments with graphene revealed some fascinating properties that compelled scientists into researching more, to fuse it into the promising field of molecular electronics.Graphene was isolated around a decade ago, and may take a while before it is available to general public.