Sentences with phrase «scientists know based»

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Polish scientists have shown that male and female preferences for a height difference (known scientifically as sexual dimorphism) change based on how tall they are, perhaps so that people can widen their own dating pool.

The advance is based on a technique that allows scientists to narrow in on a specific gene and cut - and - paste bits of DNA to change its function, known as CRISPR - Cas9.

The approach was based on a technique pioneered at Cambridge University by data scientists who claimed it could reveal more about a person than even their parents or romantic partners knew.

Granted, the believers are perfectly happy relying on scientists and science to — I don't know — talk to people around the world instantaneously via this comment board, and then get in their cars, and fly in planes, and use electricity, and watch TV — all of those things based on science, and yet, when someone points out that scientists have mapped the human genome and other primates and can show, irrefutably, where the different primate families branched off — well, no, no no!

No doubt that the scientists are of good repute, but the actual records only go so far, everything else is a calculation based on assumptions.

Up until now scientists had to wrestle with this law and the fact that the numbers did not add up but we had no where else to put this stored or missing energy that we can see and weigh based on observable gravitational fields.

I know of no scientist or atheist that justifies their scientific outlook based on the big bang.

The first threat, that from naturalism, directly challenges the presuppositions upon which science as we know it was originally based — presuppositions which, though undoubtedly absent from the consciousness of many contemporary scientists, were quite clearly on the minds of those who pioneered modern science.

I am not a scientist or doctor, but have found these podcast interviews of researchers interesting - I find it motivating to know why exercise and nutrition is important based on the physiology of the body and to hear it from people are doing cutting edge research and aren't trying to sell something.

The survey, known as the Habitat Mapping Project (HMP), was conducted between May 2011 and September 2012 by a team of scientists from Hudsonia Ltd., an environmental research institute based in Dutchess County.

Scicchitano described the warning as a scientific product based on work climate scientists did on the ocean - atmospheric phenomenon known as La Niña, finding that it would affect rainfall most severely in the Horn of Africa.

«The results need to be validated and extended before scientists know if a treatment based on this approach could one day be used to help cancer patients.»

If scientists «start too early to specialize in biomaterials, there is a risk that they... would know all the possible applications but they will maybe not have the basis to be able to develop new ideas or new systems,» says Christine Dupont - Gillain, who leads the Nanostructured Surfaces for Cell Engineering group at the Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanosciences of the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium.

Then three years ago Stanford University atmospheric scientists Cristina Archer and Mark Jacobson did a detailed calculation based on known patterns of air motion.

Evidence for such an origin might be bolstered if scientists find signs of other materials known to be present in comets, like carbon - based compounds called organics.

Although it's interesting to know what those who've come before you on the physician - scientist path have chosen, your decision should be based on your own aptitudes and proclivities.

This is why the Bernese scientist chose an alternative approach for his study, which is published in the journal «Astronomy & Astrophysics»: Based on the mass and radius of a planet Yann Alibert was able to determine criteria that exclude the possibility of life as we know it.

Based on everything that scientists knew about mammalian eyes, nothing should have happened.

«I know a lot of [staff] scientists who do have to worry on a year - to - year basis whether they're going to have a job next year,» Spurgeon says.

Earlier this year, a group of concerned scientists and journal publishers signed an open letter known as the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) to encourage review boards and tenure committees to «eliminate the use of journal - based metrics, such as Journal Impact Factors, in funding, appointment, and promotion considerations,» and to encourage the development of alternative metrics (altmetrics) to measure a scientist's research contributions.

Scientists know the age of each rock layer — each row of bricks — based on previous studies that have used a variety of dating techniques.

«Those are all companies we're working with on a day - to - day basis, so we're seeding these places with people who understand Merck, have contacts with Merck scientists, know how we work and how to work with us.

An astonishing number of things that scientists know about brains and behavior are based on small groups of highly educated, mostly white people between the ages of 18 and 21.

In two papers in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the scientists develop models showing that the stellar wind — the constant outpouring of charged particles that sweep out into space — could severely deplete the atmosphere of such planets over hundreds of millions of years, rendering them unable to host surface - based life as we know it.

«We know from the basis of past periods of terrorism that they don't last forever,» says Michael Barkun, a political scientist at the Maxwell School in Syracuse, New York.

Most scientists agree that such DNA - based life probably emerged from a much simpler life - form that no longer exists on Earth.

As a jumping - off point, scientists like Shirey and Richardson are searching for clues in the past based on what we know about how Earth works today.

What scientists know about such collisions is based mainly on a limited survey of craters around the world and on the moon.

Scientists know much less about this type of attention, known as object - based attention, than spatial attention, which involves focusing on what's happening in a particular location.

However, training designed to propel scientists into alternative careers is ideally based within the industries themselves rather than in academia, simply because those working in industry know their own needs best.

Knowing these sharks were born in the Atomic Age, and assuming the animals grew at a predictable rate, the scientists calculated ages for the remaining sharks based on size.

Given what scientists know about the Red Planet's atmosphere, these clouds likely consist of either carbon dioxide or water - based ice crystals.

Scientists formulate hypotheses based on what they read and know, but because there is so little that they can actually read, hypotheses can be biased, Lichtarge said.

A third of these are warheads — dubbed W76 — which, since 1978, have been deployed atop submarine - based ballistic missiles or stored in what is known as the Enduring Nuclear Stockpile, according to Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Washington, D.C. - based Federation of American Scientists (FAS), an organization founded by the creators of the original nuclear weapon in 1945 that has been monitoring the nation's nuclear arsenal ever since.

Scientists chose which chemicals to look for based on expected widespread exposure and known toxicity.

«Titan's northern lakes region is one of the most Earth - like and intriguing in the solar system,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist, based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. «We know lakes here change with the seasons, and Cassini's long mission at Saturn gives us the opportunity to watch the seasons change at Titan, too.

«Knowing, scientifically, that people who have been trained to identify individual bears can do so with a reasonable expectation of accuracy helps us to know that the work we are doing to learn about these bears is based on good science, not just personal opinion» said Russ Van Horn, Ph.D., a lead researcher on the study and a research scientist for the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research.

The scientists took quantum information theory, which is based on abstract mathematical systems, and applied it to condensed matter physics, a well - explored field with many known laws and experiments.

«We know from a previous study based on OSDUHS data that as many as 20 per cent of adolescents in Ontario said they have experienced a traumatic brain injury in their lifetime,» said Dr. Robert Mann, senior scientist at CAMH and director of the OSDUHS.

Now, scientists at the Autonomous University of Barcelona have led a study which analysed several brands of beer by applying a new concept in analysis systems, known as an electronic tongue, the idea for which is based on the human sense of taste.

The specimens contained in the world's natural history museums are the basis for most of what scientists know about biodiversity.

«The researchers now plan to team up with other world - leading experts in cancer signalling based in Manchester including Professor Nic Jones, Director of MCRC and Cancer Research UK Chief Scientist who heads the Cell Regulation Laboratory, which studies how cells respond to sudden adverse changes in their surroundings, known as environmental stress.

Scientists from the Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute, based at The University of Manchester and part of the Manchester Cancer Research Centre, teamed up with experts at AstraZeneca, as part of a collaboration agreed in 2010, to test a drug — known as AZD3965 — on small cell lung cancer cells.

As scientists went deeper into evolutionary history and closer to the base of the tree of life, the harder it became to know how closely related organisms are.

Based on GPS measurements, scientists know that a large portion of this fault is «locked.»

However, a new University of Minnesota study with more than 1,000 young trees has found that plants also adjust — or acclimate — to a warmer climate and may release only one - fifth as much additional carbon dioxide than scientists previously believed, The study, published today in the journal Nature, is based on a five - year project, known as «B4Warmed,» that simulated the effects of climate change on 10 boreal and temperate tree species growing in an open - air setting in 48 plots in two forests in northern Minnesota.

Kepler project scientist Nick Gautier of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory presented new data at the meeting on three of the larger planets in the Kepler - 20 system, now officially known as Kepler - 20b, -20 c and -20 d. From the star's wobbles, observed with ground - based telescopes, Gautier and his colleagues were able to deduce the masses of Kepler - 20b and -20 c: 8.7 and 16.1 Earth masses, respectively.

With more than 300 instrument systems providing ground - based climate observations, ARM relies heavily on instrument scientists and engineers known as instrument mentors for calibrating and assessing the status of the instruments.

Based on high - pressure experimental studies, scientists knew minerals that transported water — such as brucite — had limited stability and that these minerals decompose in the deep Earth.

«Scientists don't know what proteins might be involved in magnetite - based magnetoreception, but now we have some candidate genes to work with,» Fitak said.