The phrase
"tantalizing clues" means intriguing or exciting pieces of evidence or information that tease and provoke curiosity.
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The point is that many early writers did not know how to translate or describe the term ekklēsia, but the terms they proposed offer
tantalizing clues as to how the church functioned and was viewed during its early years.
The findings, made with the W. M. Keck Observatory and published today in The Astrophysical Journal,
offer tantalizing clues about how iron, carbon and other elements key to human life originally formed.
The DNA sequence from a male hunter - gatherer also offers
tantalizing clues about modern humans» journey from Africa to Europe, Asia and beyond, as well as their sexual encounters with Neanderthals.
Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Japan have succeeded in inducing human embryonic stem cells to self - organize into a three - dimensional structure similar to the cerebellum, providing
tantalizing clues in the quest to recreate neural structures in the laboratory.
Previous research by the Northwestern group
provided tantalizing clues, showing that SuperAgers have distinctive brain features: thicker cortexes, a resistance to age - related atrophy and a larger left anterior cingulate (a part of the brain important to attention and working memory).
While it did nothing to calm the maelstrom swirling around Summers, the new understanding of the chromosome
revealed tantalizing clues to the role genes might play in shaping cognitive differences between the sexes.
Tarzi has already
found tantalizing clues, including several small sculptured Buddha heads and a wall that might be part of a monastery.
And while human - induced climate change has been causing major problems for wildlife as of late, changes in the Earth's climate have impacted evolution for millions of years — offering
tantalizing clues into how to protect animals facing climate change today.
Oh, and, lest you think the matter not personal enough, Poe's lady love is kidnapped and buried alive, Poe
given tantalizing clues as to her whereabouts.
While there are
tantalizing clues on how food allergies emerge and might be prevented, misconceptions are plentiful and broad conclusions are lacking, concludes a new report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.
Yonkers, NY — April 22, 2016 — The transformation of the former Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) building at 1086 N. Broadway is well under way and providing the local community
with tantalizing clues about its much anticipated grand opening planned for Fall 2016.
Tantalizing clues suggest that this may be so and point toward an archaeological discovery of unparalleled importance — and the resurrection of a voice that has been silent for millennia.
Deep underground, beyond a 39 - foot vertical shaft narrowing to 8 inches in some spots,
tantalizing clues of humanity's earliest origins are whispering up from the darkness.
For now, the
most tantalizing clue to the mystery may have come from a separate team of researchers working in a lab far from Lomekwi.
But researchers have been
uncovering tantalizing clues that some other, earlier species of hominin, distant cousins, if you will, might have figured it out.
A mysterious video posted on Youtube by user «OnigawaraV» made it pretty plain that something was up, providing
several tantalizing clues in reference to the fifth installment of the series, whose release was confirmed at this year's Game Developers» Conference.
Following tantalizing clues which suggest the mark might be a map leading to the fabled lost city of Nar, Breslin and his friends must track down creatures thought to be extinct, try to infiltrate the nest of a rare dragon, and assemble an ancient relic which no one knows how to use.
However, their exhaustive, 14 - month study of each candidate's Twitter followers - enabled by machine learning and other data science tools - offers
tantalizing clues as to why the race turned out the way it did.
Since the neural crest hypothesis surfaced, geneticists have
found tantalizing clues that Wilkins, Wrangham and Fitch are onto something.
So what I'm going to do in this blog post, as a public service and by virtue of some tangential connection to our blog's focus, dealing with arbitration agreement (to satisfy Sergeant - at - Blog Lawless), I want to clarify some things about the Stormy Daniels contract litigation and engage in a wee bit of informed speculation based on
tantalizing clues in the contract.
The Cassini images continue to provide scientists
with tantalizing clues that will lead to the eventual discovery of life in our solar system.
However, their exhaustive, 14 - month study of each candidate's Twitter followers — enabled by machine learning and other data science tools —
offers tantalizing clues as to why the race turned out the way it did.
The photograph
provided tantalizing clues: Cast and camber of the rear wheels (top of the tire cast inboard) the all - new 1963 independent rear suspension.
The tantalizing clue, he says, was that Amazon last week had begun looking to hire a regulatory expert on HIPAA, the complicated (and controversial) piece of health privacy legislation that touches virtually every part of our national healthcare system.
A deep, briny «subpermafrost» groundwater network could harbor a hidden ecosystem, offering
tantalizing clues to a possible martian habitat.
But over the past several years, discoveries have begun to yield
some tantalizing clues about the end of the Ediacaran.
Researchers turned up
some tantalizing clues to the origin of life.
But the cave bear mysteriously went extinct about 24,000 years ago — and new research is offering
some tantalizing clues as to why.
The find also adds to
the tantalizing clues about how these moose - sized, presumably shaggy progenitors fit into the camel family tree — a lineage that today boasts only two species of true camels but includes plenty of South American relatives such as llamas, alpacas, guanacos, and vicuñas.
Research into the genetics of long - livers, and into other biological systems that may influence aging, offers
some tantalizing clues into the underlying mechanics of these clocks.
For now, though, such anomalies remain no more than
tantalizing clues.
Yet there are
tantalizing clues that the Red Planet's climate was much more inviting in the past — warm and wet, even — with lakes, rivers, and other watery features we see on Earth.
Mars is a cold, dry, miserable place now, but we have
tantalizing clues, mostly from data taken from orbit, that suggest that in the past it may have been very different — warmer and wetter and more Earth - like.
A tantalizing clue came in 1998, when researchers at CERN in Geneva and at Fermilab outside of Chicago confirmed the prediction that certain subatomic particles change into their antimatter analogues at a lower rate than conversions in the opposite direction.
Primatologists are beginning to study the bonobos» unrestrained sexual behavior for
tantalizing clues to the origins of our own sexuality.
Although researchers say it is impossible to determine from a single patient what factors contributed to a spontaneous remission, Matzke's case provides
a tantalizing clue that the immune system may sometimes be at work.
Greeks, Romans and other later cultures left evidence of their subsequent presence at the site, but it's the Neolithic residents who have captured archaeologists» imaginations: Now, new techniques to analyze
the tantalizing clues left by these first settlers may overturn our entire notion of prehistory.
The result is
a tantalizing clue in the puzzle of how today's grand galaxies assembled.
NASA's «follow the water» approach to exploring Mars has led to
tantalizing clues that microbial life may have existed at some point on the Red Planet.
For example, from 1993 to 1998 physicists with the Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico studied a beam of muon neutrinos and found
tantalizing clues that they might be morphing into sterile neutrinos.
After years of searching hard for the so - called photoreceptor cells that relay that light signal to the clock in mammals, circadian biologists had
tantalizing clues but no answer.
Two of the best - preserved embryos revealed
a tantalizing clue to pterosaur development, Kellner says.
Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array radio telescope to study the most distant known quasar have found
a tantalizing clue that may answer a longstanding cosmic chicken - and - egg question.
Ultimately, the scientists decided the results weren't statistically significant, but it was
another tantalizing clue in the search for the most mysterious substance in the universe.