Sentences with phrase «systems scientists began»

Soon after, systems scientists began assessing the feasibility of building the titanic Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River.

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And when scientists began to study the solar system with more precision, they discovered unsuspected patterns even more beautiful than those known to the ancients.

But then contradictory studies began flooding in, and scientists now believe that exposing the gastrointestinal system to an allergen early in life is unlikely to cause an allergy.

Chang said that understanding more about the microbiome in an unhealthy state can help scientists begin to learn how to promote the development of a microbiome that sets the stage for a healthy immune system.

Scientists have long believed that the early solar system began with four planetary cores that went on to grab all of the gas around them, forming the four gas planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

Resistance could mean resurrecting the peanut ancestors» drought tolerance; or it could be a plant with a knack for repelling bugs; or it could be found by hacking the plant's immune system through mechanisms scientists are just beginning to understand.

The scientists then played the movies backward, to identify the point at which the lymphatic system began to form.

He agrees with other scientists who think that the U.S. must begin a series of talks with the European Commission and the European Space Agency as well as with counterparts in India, China and Japan to find a way to develop an international climate observing system.

The U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer funds nine academic centers that wed nanotechnology and biological systems, and since its beginning, it has mandated that its centers are co-led by physical scientists or engineers and cancer biologists or oncologists.

Microbiologists were just starting to characterize the bacterial immune system that scientists would eventually co-opt and name CRISPR when Venter's team began its effort to whittle life down to its bare essentials.

Biologists, physicists, mathematicians, and computer scientists have begun cooperating on a sophisticated «systems biology» aimed at understanding how the countless molecular interactions at the heart of life fit together in the workings of cells, organs, and whole animals.

Nonetheless, by studying the cycles of renewal in Alaska, scientists are showing how profoundly the system is broken elsewhere, and they are beginning to understand how quickly we must act.

The Dawn spacecraft — so named because it will give scientists their first close look at two relics from the very beginning of the solar system — took off from Cape Canaveral atop a Delta II rocket in September 2007.

In February scientists in Hokkaido began ground tests of a power transmission system designed to send energy in microwave form to Earth.

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.

So scientists have begun to develop gridlike traps in which ions can be moved from a string in the system's memory, say, to another string where data are being processed.

Confronted with these findings, scientists began to wonder whether small quantities of synthetic chemical compounds found in our food and water — and in everyday products like makeup, plastics, and bug spray — could be sabotaging human fertility, undermining our immune systems, or affecting prenatal development.

«Synthetic biology is a new area that's really exciting to young scientists — to have things begin to work in this way is a sort of validation of the field,» says Pamela Silver, a professor of systems biology at Harvard University Medical School and co-author of a study demonstrating one of the first synthetic restructurings of a eukaryotic cell that is described in the journal Genes & Development.

«Weakest» is rarely a superlative worth celebrating, but experiments began this summer in a room (below) with the weakest magnetic field in our solar system — and scientists are excited.

As Qian honed China's weapons systems, scientists in North America and Europe began applying systems approaches to intractable policy problems, modeling them as a collection of inputs and variables linked by direct or inverse relationships and feedback loops.

At the beginning of the trial in September 2011, U.S. earthquake scientists conveyed alarm at the idea of subjecting earthquake risk assessment to the criminal justice system.

Once they do, scientists will begin analyzing them to learn more about the early solar system — particularly those water molecules and organic compounds, which may help explain the biggest mystery of all, how life on Earth began.

It's not known what triggers the immune system to attack the embryonic stem cells, but the scientists believe it may be a protein that begins to appear on the surface of the cells as they differentiate into more - specialized tissues.

Some scientists argue that material has jumped from planet to planet since the beginning of the solar system and so there's no need to worry.

It's no wonder that scientists are only now beginning to discover the effects and interrelationships of minerals in our human systems, such as how minerals help maintain a healthy balance, and what adverse effects are created by a mineral imbalance.

The journey to discovery of the endocannabinoid system began in 1964 when Israeli scientist Raphael Mechoulam was able to identify and isolate THC and CBD cannabinoids for the first time.

A group of Australian scientists has begun a new online effort to communicate the body of science pointing to a rising human influence on the climate system.

The exactly why we have scientists, to understand how processes work, palio - climatologists to look far back to the beginning of our climatic system to establish the odds of this or that occurring.

Professor DeConto and co-author David Pollard, senior scientist at Penn State University's Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, publish their new simulations in Nature and begin by thinking about sea level rise long before the emergence of humankind, let alone human civilisation.

Take what you have learned from the scientists and imagine the world in a few decades from now, a few degrees warmer, with all the extreme weather, desertification, ocean acidification, mass migration, conflict over energy supplies, fresh water and so on, that have already begun, and that will only get worse the more we destabilize our climate system with greenhouse gases.

For me, though, I think alarmist scientists would do a lot more for their credibility by simply embracing integrity and transparency and by beginning the basic rudiments of a quality system.

«I think part of my love of science and thinking about systems and the way things hold together has come from growing up with scientists, people who deeply understood the ecology of the world they came from and the transition they made by beginning to hold two worlds together,» she told the 2014 Australian Indigenous Doctors» Association (AIDA) conference.