Sentences with phrase «slower than the scientists»

The melting of Greenland's glaciers is slower than scientists previously thought and so may not present such a serious threat to rising sea levels, according to University of Washington research.

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Hence, we now know that the universe is expanding more rapidly rather than slowing as the «scientists» concluded.

Michigan State University scientists now have early proof that an antidepressant drug that's been around for more than 50 years could slow the progression of Parkinson's.

Overwhelmingly, scientists favor treatments that will slow aging and stave off age - related diseases rather than simply extending life at its most decrepit.

They also found that sharks used powered swimming more often than a gliding motion to move through the ocean, contrary to what scientists had previously thought, and that deep - sea sharks swim in slow motion compared to shallow water species.

«Scientists have paid a lot of attention to potential climate change signals in forests — like them growing faster than expected due to an overabundance of carbon dioxide, or slower due to climate change - induced extreme temperatures.

Slower population growth that leads to eight billion people in 2050 rather than to the currently projected 9.1 billion would save one billion to two billion tons of carbon annually by 2050, according to estimates by climate scientist Brian O'Neill of the National Center for Atmospheric Research and his colleagues.

That's up to 9 kilometers per second slower than the average for bigger objects that have hit Earth over its history, says space scientist and asteroid specialist William Bottke of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

The scientists theorized that some kind of perceptual illusion was fooling drivers into thinking they were in the slow lane more often than they really were.

The finding may help scientists unravel a paradox: Cells with extra chromosomes grow slower than cells with the usual two copies of each chromosome, but cancer cells, which grow quickly, often have additional chromosomes.

The scientists suggested that the expansion of the universe was accelerating, rather than slowing down or beginning to reverse, as many researchers had predicted.

Although the less - than - rapid progress triggered some impatience among followers, many others posted their support, suggesting it wouldn't truly be a scientist's march if the process wasn't somewhat slow and deliberate.

What scientists discovered in 2014 is that since the turn of the century, oceans have been absorbing more of global warming's heat and energy than would normally be expected, helping to slow rates of warming on land.

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Results: Uranium contamination may move much slower in groundwater than previously believed, according to scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

In a study done by scientists at Canada's British Columbia Cancer Research Centre, it was found that mice fed on a high - protein, low - carbohydrate diet had slower tumour cell growth than those fed a typical Western diet high in carbohydrates.

The scout worm is more agile than all others and can jump super-long distances, the scientist heals all your team's worms every turn, the soldier is your normal worm and the heavy is bigger and slower but deals significantly more damage.

The Heavy is a chunky worm that is slow but does more damage, the Scientist is a weaker worm with a big forehead that heals your team a little each turn, and the Scout is a smaller, similarly weaker worm that is able to move faster and jump further than the others.

Scientists are currently interested in why temperatures at the surface of the ocean have been rising slower than in previous decades, even though we're emitting greenhouse gases faster than ever.

The use of the term «collapse,» which connotes an imminent calamity, rather than a long, relatively slow process (glaciers melting at, literally, a glacial pace) generated quite a bit of chatter in the climate journalism community, but in interviews, scientists defended the word as apt for this situation.

Following Twemoran advice, I wrote to all London MEP (8 representatives) a little more than 2 weeks ago, summarizing the impact of the Arctic amplification (on permafrost, methane hydrate and Greenland ice sheet) and the impact on NH climate with the slowing down of the jet stream and more extreme weather (+ further down the line potential issue on food security) I also attached the «Weird winter mad March Part 2» video with extract of numerous scientists of which Jeff Masters and J. Francis to illustrate the impact on NH climate.

As a result, he said, the world may find it easier and less costly to slow climate change than he and other scientists had thought, at least in the short term.

I would agree, but I think that the basic problem is that there is no normal method of communication from scientists to public (other than slow diffusion).

Rather than debunking the cartoon, the scientists acted it out in slow motion.

For a pair of scientists working in a time when computer instructions were compiled on printed punch cards and processing was thousands of times slower than today, they created a remarkably accurate model.

Although diesel vehicles offer lower carbon dioxide emissions and higher gas mileage than gasoline vehicles, some expert scientists, like Stanford University Mark Jacobson, have argued that controlling diesel emissions could be the fastest and «most effective» way to slow climate change.

Far from slowing down, global carbon dioxide emissions are rising faster than before, said a gathering of scientists in Beijing on Friday.

In a speech in April, Mr. Bush called for an end to the growth of greenhouse gases by 2025 — a timetable slower than many scientists say is required.