An international
team of scientists says that the critically endangered vaquita, a species of porpoise (Phocoena sinus) found only in Mexico's Gulf of California, is fast approaching extinction and that all gillnet fishing in the animal's range must be banned.
Now, an interdisciplinary
team of scientists says it has found a new way to analyze blood flow through one of the heart's upper blood collection chambers — the left atrium — which could lead to a better way to assess stroke risk in patients.
In a triumph for space geology,
a team of scientists said they found a rare meteorite, it's the first of its kind to be found on Earth — a dark and rare type called a D asteroid.
Two
teams of scientists say the long - feared collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has begun, kicking off what they say will be a centuries - long, «unstoppable» process that could raise sea levels by as much as 15 feet.
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team of scientists say a melting glacier in Canada's Yukon has caused a river to completely change course.
Not exact matches
The company — comprising a
team of neuroscientists, computer
scientists, astrophysicists, artists and entrepreneurs —
says it uses a new type
of «neural - network algorithm» to analyze millions
of reviews and descriptions, and then recommends restaurants based on the data you have entered into the site, according to a report from Forbes.
«In just a few years, we've grown from a handful
of software developers and
scientists to a
team of more than 1,200, inventing new capabilities and products on behalf
of millions
of customers around the world,»
said Rohit Prasad, Amazon's Boston area - based vice president and head
scientist of Amazon Alexa.
A number
of world - leading science and technology professionals, young
scientists and engineers, and innovation
teams should be trained, with major breakthroughs in pioneering basic research and original innovations as their goal, Xi
said.
Now young companies led by
scientists with limited business know - how had access to «this
team of super motivated, super engaged, highly talented MBAs working for them,» Mr. Debow
said.
«Our core business is in contract manufacturing — we have a
team of food
scientists who help our customers commercialize their product ideas,» Chilton
says.
The great thing about the release
of this dataset is that it is immediately useable,»
said Dr. Kenneth McNally, senior
scientist in IRRI's T.T. Chang Genetic Resources Center and a project
team member.
«For many years, we have searched for genes that improve phosphorus uptake,»
said Dr. Sigrid Heuer, senior
scientist at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and leader
of the
team that published the discovery in Nature.
Now a
team of scientists led by Johns Hopkins pediatric surgeon - in - chief David Hackam, M.D., Ph.D.,
says experiments in mice reveal how breast milk works to ward off the development
of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), a devastating intestinal disorder that affects 12 percent
of premature babies and claims the lives
of one in four
of those who have it.
«We are elated to have another accomplished and passionate
scientist join Shedd's conservation research
team to help expand our commitment to understanding and protecting marine ecosystems,»
said Dr. Chuck Knapp, vice president
of conservation research at Shedd Aquarium.
On its website, it
says: «Our
team of PHD data
scientists, expert researchers, and seasoned political operatives have produced decisive results for campaigns and initiatives throughout the world.»
«Since the impact presented no technical problems for the health and safety
of the instrument, the
team is only now announcing this event as a fascinating example
of how engineering data can be used, in ways not previously anticipated, to understand what is happing to the spacecraft over 236,000 miles (380,000 kilometers) from the Earth,»
said John Keller, LRO project
scientist from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
«Things never will be quite the same for those
of us on the Cassini
team now that the spacecraft is no longer flying,»
said Linda Spilker, Cassini project
scientist at JPL.
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For example, you could
say, «Helped PI recognize over $ 1,000,000 in grant funding by skillfully leading a
team of scientists to complete all projects on time, resulting in grant renewal every year.»
But champions
of dark flow are not ready to give up yet, including one Planck
scientist who
says his
team's analysis is flawed.
Understanding if there are tectonics on the moon gives
scientists «clues we can play with to make models
of the inside,»
says Steve Wall, Cassini Radar deputy
team lead.
Scientists we sent Anand's poster presentation to
said that although the
team has indeed grown some kind
of miniature collection
of cells, or «organoid», in a dish, the structure isn't much like a fetal brain.
A
team of 30
scientists from across the globe has put together a list
of nine environmental processes that must remain within specific limits they
say, or what they call «the safe operating space within which humankind can exist on Earth» will cease to be safe.
So the Web
team was often caught between designers dealing in the detail
of what could be done with Flash, and
scientists who could only
say «Well, it doesn't really happen like that...» The solution was regular brainstorming, many rewrites, plenty
of feedback, a few horrendous deadlines, and spreadsheets full
of the text that carried the weight
of the factual content.
A
team led by voice
scientist Christian Herbst, now
of the University
of Olomouc in the Czech Republic, used the donated larynx
of a dead elephant to study the process
of vocalization, which he
says opens new possibilities for researching oice projection problems in people.
The
team's analyses «are quite important,»
says Björn - Martin Sinnhuber, an atmospheric
scientist at Karlsruhe Institute
of Technology in Germany.
«Our upcoming launch is the culmination
of a tremendous amount
of effort from an extremely dedicated
team of scientists, engineers, technicians, finance and support personnel,»
said OSIRIS - REx Project Manager Mike Donnelly at Goddard.
«But the mechanism on Saturn has to be different,»
says Caltech planetary
scientist Andrew Ingersoll, a member
of the Cassini imaging
team.
«We applaud this latest achievement
of our many Penn State
scientists and students who have helped to build and are helping to develop this innovative new technology and its system
of international collaboration among many research
teams worldwide,»
said Nicholas P. Jones, Penn State's Executive Vice President and Provost.
«It's like a little bit
of everything,»
says Carly Howett, a planetary
scientist and New Horizons
team member at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
The
team, which consists
of scientists from Stockholm University and the Norwegian Meteorological Institute,
say that their surprising finding highlights an even more urgent need for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to mitigate Arctic climate change.
Petrovic
says the
team is making it possible for
scientists to virtually explore reefs in the lab, allowing them to time - travel from year to year and track the growth and decline
of individual colonies, and to study spatial and temporal relationships across the reef.
New findings from an international
team of scientists reveal that light can make molecular rotors spin more than a million times faster than before, which researchers
say could one day have applications such as winding up pulleys in synthetic muscles.
Some Mars
scientists have suggested quickly evaporating carbon dioxide ice could have triggered rockslides, forming gullies elsewhere on the planet, but that's a less popular theory,
says team member Sanjeev Gupta
of Imperial College London.
«We are very excited that the project is about to start as it has taken many years
of preparation and the dedication
of a large
team of scientists from around the world,»
said Professor McNeill.
Usama Kadri, a visiting assistant professor and a research affiliate in MIT's Department
of Mathematics,
says the
team's results establish a concrete and detailed relationship between surface - gravity waves and acoustic - gravity waves, which, until now,
scientists had suspected did not exist.
James Lupski, a medical geneticist at Baylor College
of Medicine in Houston, Texas,
says that when his
team identifies a potentially disease - causing mutation in a patient genome, he e-mails other
scientists to see whether they have found similar mutations.
Post-surgical matching is even harder for obvious reasons,
says Kevin Bowyer, a computer
scientist at the University
of Notre Dame, Indiana, whose
team developed the new system: «If someone has plastic surgery, they're trying to change the appearance
of one or more parts
of their face.»
«We can hire the best programmers,»
says Milosevic, «and then we make
teams of scientists and programmers.»
«I was very happy to see this new work by Kite and Rubin that brings to the fore a process that had escaped notice: the pumping
of water in and out
of the deep fractures
of the south polar ice shell by tidal action,»
said Carolyn Porco, head
of Cassini's imaging science
team and a leading
scientist in the study
of Enceladus.
To visualize what the colors may have actually looked like when van Gogh painted them, Casadio's
team worked with a color
scientist using algorithms to create a «virtual knob that we can use and turn to bring the purple back into the bedroom,» she
said, displaying the results
of the re-colorized bedroom.
Ulla Wewer, dean
of the Faculty
of Health Sciences at the University
of Copenhagen, where the CPR is housed,
says they are «recruiting a strong
team of international
scientists to do basic research, knowing this will eventually strengthen industry.»
In the aftermath
of a raw - image dump, «about every five minutes I refresh my screen, and each time I find there are more
of these beautiful, hugely valuable products,»
says Candice Hansen, lead
scientist for NASA's JunoCam
team.
«We are looking to hire the best
of the best,»
says Gregory
of Novartis, «and we want
scientists who have worked on projects in
team environments.»
«It's possible that more people have their life history documented at the molecular level in the HSV - 1 strains they carry,»
said Derek Gatherer, a lecturer in the Division
of Biomedical and Life Sciences at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom and a member
of the research
team, which also includes
scientists at Georgia State University, the University
of Pittsburgh, and Princeton University.
Steinman and his
team's approach is «novel for a couple
of reasons,»
says Ben Booth, a climate
scientist at the Met Office Hadley Centre in Exeter, U.K.. Although it's already widely accepted in the community that the Pacific Ocean plays a large role, this paper gives a much longer time context, he
says, highlighting the role
of both oceans over many decades.
«Planet's daily observation frequencies are incredibly useful,»
says David Roy, a remote sensing
scientist at South Dakota State University in Brookings and co-leader
of the Landsat science
team.
The results aren't entirely surprising,
said George Perry, a
scientist from Penn State University who was part
of the research
team.
The results suggest that relatively simple tests
of household dust collected from infrequently cleaned areas could help forensic
scientists identify the sex
of a home's occupants — and maybe even its frequent visitors, the
team says.
«The specific macromolecular complex investigated in this study has therapeutic implications not only for addiction, but also for Parkinson's disease and schizophrenia,»
said Dr. Sergi Ferré, who led the
team of scientists.