Sentences with phrase «scientists know the source»

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You know these youtube videos from a creation «scientist» are not exactly the best source.

The premise is straightforward enough: A woman's husband contracts a fatal illness from a quarantined region known as the Shimmer, so she goes in with a team of scientists to find the source of the Shimmer and save his life.

Scientists have researched a critical point --- > physical building blocks of the universe have gradually vanished; that is, atoms and quarks no longer seem solid at all but are actually clouds of energy, which in turn disappear into the void that seems to be the source of creation.

The axoneme's rhythmic bending and stretching is the source of the tail's movement, and the scientists knew they needed to realistically depict that process in order to show the film's viewers how a sperm moves.

«All these mechanisms seem to work, but we still didn't know which is the dominant source of lunar water,» says NASA scientist Alan Stern, who was not involved in the new work.

Within the 12 - or 15 - year limit, the universities no longer have to make delimitations, such as defining from what funding or budget source the scientist is actually being paid.

«We now have an independent measurement of these emission sources that does not rely on what was known or thought known,» said Chris McLinden, an atmospheric scientist with Environment and Climate Change Canada in Toronto and lead author of the study published this week in Nature Geosciences.

But, to develop comprehensive and accurate inventories, industries, government agencies and scientists first must know the location of pollution sources.

Still, by knowing that Mars's methane comes from discrete areas, scientists can look for new sources and target the regions for future lander missions.

The U.S. can no longer afford to ignore sewage as a source of drinking water, scientists argue.

Scientists have identified the source of mysterious flashes of cosmic radio waves known as fast radio bursts (FRBs): a surprisingly small galaxy more than 3 billion light - years away.

Bees seem to know how far they must fly to get to sources of food that they have visited before, and some scientists have argued that bees measure distance by evaluating the energy they have used in flying there.

This «dark matter» is difficult to detect and no one knows exactly what it is doing or why it is there in our genome, but scientists suspect it may be the source of inherited diseases.

The scientists estimated that the amount of contaminated water flowing into the ocean from this brackish groundwater source below the sandy beaches is as large as the input from two other known sources: ongoing releases and runoff from the nuclear power plant site itself, and outflow from rivers that continue to carry cesium from the fallout on land in 2011 to the ocean on river - borne particles.

«As far as we know this is the first open - source medical device that has been clinically validated and is widely available,» said Dr. Tarek Loubani, associate professor at Western's Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, associate scientist at Lawson Health Research Institute and an emergency room physician at London Health Sciences Centre.

«It collects the amplitude and phase information from each of the antennas, and knowing their distances from each other, it lines everything up to produce a coherent picture of the source,» says Jeff Mangum, an ALMA project scientist at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Charlottesville, Virginia, US.

Those who trust scientists are more influenced by research findings or major science organizations, but those who don't trust scientists know where to find alternative sources that better fit their beliefs.

A novel technique known as in - situ plasma processing is helping scientists get more neutrons and better data for their experiments at the Spallation Neutron Source at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

It's uncertain whether other cell types, such as the immune cells that enter the lungs after an attack, have adenosine receptors — and scientists don't even know the source of the adenosine.

«If you see a gamma - ray source, you know you've got something really cool,» says astrophysicist Julie McEnery, GLAST's deputy project scientist.

«I do not know the source of that original document, but I assume it was sent to me because of my past exchanges with Heartland and because I was named in it,» said the scientist who has sparred often with Heartland and others who do not believe in the scientific underpinnings of man - made global warming.

Among other things, he notes, «scientists would like to know what these sources are, how much methane they're producing, and how those sources vary over time.»

Blanch considers that knowing the source of the pollution is also important from a health - risk perspective, «given that human pathogens present in water are significantly more contagious than those of animal origin,» concludes the scientist.

Many scientists have learned to write computer code without formal training, and so they may simply not know of the open - source software culture of sharing such codes, Morin and his colleagues said.

Using publicly available data from NASA's Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope, independent scientists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Chicago have developed new maps showing that the galactic center produces more high - energy gamma rays than can be explained by known sources and that this excess emission is consistent with some forms of dark matter.

Scientists have identified the source of mysterious flashes of cosmic radio waves known as fast radio bursts: a surprisingly small galaxy more than 3 billion light - years away.

To deal with that, most sucessful scientists develop networks of «trusted» sources — people you know and get along with, but who are specialists in different areas (dynamics, radiation, land surfaces, aerosols, deep time paleo etc.) and who you can just call up and ask for the bottom line.

Scientists believe the source of Jupiter's powerful magnetic field lies deep in the atmosphere, and Juno will examine the supercompressed fluid known as metallic hydrogen that conducts electricity and contributes to the magnetosphere.

The semipermeable membranes required to produce the fluid flow that characterizes osmotic phenomena initially came from biological sources; French scientist René Dutrochet wrote in 1828, «it appears from these new studies that the endosmotic and exosmotic phenomena, which I discovered, belong to a new class of physical phenomena, whose powerful intervention in the vital phenomenon is no longer doubtful.»

Scientists know of 187 genes linked to human fitness or athleticism [source: Rankinen].

Using video footage gathered from various sources and knowing the landing point of the meteor, scientists in Columbia have been able to recreate its path to Earth, including the boom - a-rang effect it had in orbiting around the sun.

«We know rather little about how much methane comes from different sources and how these have been changing in response to industrial and agricultural activities or because of climate events like droughts,» says Hinrich Schaefer, an atmospheric scientist at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) in New Zealand, who collaborates with Petrenko.

Scientists didn't know the source of all of that dust.

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about Scientists propose an enhanced new model of the source of a mysterious barrier to fusion known as the «density limit»

But this still did not help scientists pinpoint their source — no known nearby object could have been producing the FRBs.

Scientists didn't know if the source was heavily magnified and tiny, or lightly magnified and massive.

Back then, nutrition scientists and doctors suggested eliminating avocados, nuts, salmon, olive oil and many other h ealthy fat sources that now we know are essential to the proper functioning of our bodies and should definitely be included in our diets.

Also known as lipoic acid or thioctic acid, alpha - lipoic acid is mainly derived from dietary sources (spinach, liver, brewer's yeast), although scientists have discovered that the body does manufacture small supplies of its own.

On the other hand, you do want to know if some single dataset is dominating the conclusion (because the whole point of pooling a lot of data sources is to avoid that), so scientists will frequently engage in sensitivity analysis, deleting one dataset or another, and checking to see whether the conclusion is altered meaningfully.

Although a regular citizen can't «see» carbon dioxide, scientists and engineers and others know the sources of greatest emissions.

Scientists found that emissions of tiny air particles from human - made sources — known as anthropogenic aerosols — were the cause.

While scientists have known for decades that tropical reservoirs are a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions, new research from Washington State University - Vancouver has revealed that temperate reservoirs can produce a significant surge in emissions during certain times in their operation.

So using that as a well - known reaction to voicing ideas outside their training, what is the source of faith that would lead us to expect scientists will be accepted in a dual role of scientist and political adviser guiding policy and implementation, both direct consequences of their pet idea, and which is what all this reconciliation leads to?

But it's the relatively rare appearances at RC of working scientists, often only identifiable to us onlookers because one of the principals clearly knows who they are or mentions their work, that I find most helpful sources of real understanding and interesting new information.

Those «second and third - hand sources» are what's known as evidence from a reliable source however many hands they have passed through and are always superior to a «not a scientist» «s feelings about the current weather patterns.

As Mr. Revkin knows very well, the most persuasive voices on the skeptics side are bloggers who are self - funding and mainstream skeptical scientists who get their grants from the same sources that CAGW scientists do, mostly the federal government.

(11/13/2011) Not known for alarmism and sometimes criticized for being too optimistic, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has warned that without bold action in the next five years the world will lock itself into high - emissions energy sources that will push climate change beyond the 2 degrees Celsius considered relatively «safe» by many scientists and officials.

«Let's be fair to Jones here; as a scientist, your data is invaluable; if you give it to someone else without knowing that they will give due credit to the source, then you're effectively giving away your work for free.

Scientists are studying how carbon - rich permafrost known as yedoma acts much like frozen vegetables to hungry microbes — and is becoming an additional source of heat - trapping gases.