Sentences with phrase «scientists track the cycles»

The 30 - odd bronze gears and 2,000 inscribed Greek characters in the Antikythera Mechanism helped ancient Greek scientists track the cycles of the solar system and calculate the motions of the sun, the moon, and the planets.

Not exact matches

Nonetheless, building a user - friendly device that allows scientists to track the activity of a single gene in all cell types over the course of a plant's life cycle is a tall order.

A stern lesson from history Wyatt / Curry stadium waves require confirmation from analysis and computation; otherwise they risk being regarded as one more statistics - driven model, of which the climate literature already contains innumerably many... this large corpus of cycle - seeking pure - statistics climate models is (rightly) ignored by most scientists, due to the dismal track record of cycle - seeking science in regard to explanatory and predictive power.

«This is the first time we have seen a short and weak cycle since scientists began tracking the solar cycle in the 1700s, following the last grand minimum in the 1600s when there were almost no sunspots... The big question remains: Are we about to head into a grand minimum, as happened during the Maunder Minimum in the 1600s?

The current solar cycle is on track to be the weakest in 100 years, providing an unprecedented opportunity for scientists studying the sun.

This is the first time we have seen a short and weak cycle since scientists began tracking the solar cycle in the 1700s, following the last grand minimum in the 1600s when there were almost no sunspots.