Sentences with phrase «than scientists expected»

Arctic sea ice is declining much faster than scientists expected, which has important implications for the rate and impacts of climate change.

The devastating rise in Alaska's wildfires is making global warming even worse than scientists expected, U.S. government researchers said.

In particular, he references 2008, which was cooler than scientists expected, but still among the 10 warmest years since instrumental records began.

The report claimed that the «pause» or «slowdown» in global warming in the period since 1998 — revealed by UN scientists in 2013 — never existed, and that world temperatures had been rising faster than scientists expected.

PULLMAN, Wash. — Clouds can increase warming in the changing Arctic region more than scientists expected, according to a new study published Dec. 10 in the journal Nature Communications.

«It seems that our Milky Way and Andromeda are normal galaxies after all, and spinning pancake - like systems of satellite galaxies are more common than scientists expected.»

Although the storms are relatively rare — they occur less than once per Titan year, which is 29 and a half Earth years — they occur much more frequently than the scientists expected.

That's almost 2 feet more than scientists expected just a few years ago.

Deep within their cells people may share more with birds than scientists expected.

Although that's still really cold, it's a much higher temperature than scientists expected, and it falls within the operating range of so - called «high - temperature superconductors,» whose discovery in 1986 set off a frenzy of research because of the revolutionary impact these perfectly efficient electrical transmitters could have on society.

Not only are ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica breaking up faster than scientists expected, but more of their melt water is flowing into oceans, he said, which will raise sea levels by 3.3 feet (1 meter) by 2100.

The discovery shows that the relentless solar wind can impact our planet more directly than scientists expected.

Yet some combination of factors made the Tohoku - Oki earthquake bigger and with a more deadly tsunami than scientists expected.

Dr Jourdain said it may help explain why the melt rate of some of the glaciers in that region are accelerating more than scientists expected.

A recent survey of microbial life found that the oceans are teeming with 10 to 100 times more unique species than scientists expected.

The diminutive planet is more dynamic than scientists expected.

But whatever the exact weight of various factors turns out to be, it's already clear that attitude has a bigger impact on performance than the scientists expected.

Not exact matches

At the center of the study is a new map of the hazards posed by geomagnetic storms of a strength that scientists expect to occur every 100 years — five times more frequently than «500 - year» storms like the Carrington Event.

Once you understand what the market is paying, you need to build an argument for why you offer create more value for the business than they expect in an entry - level hire, said behavioral scientist Matt Wallaert, co-founder of fair - pay site GetRaised.

Scientists expected Jupiter, which is more than 11 times the diameter of Earth, to be fairly uniform beneath its clouds.

If all scientists were constantly attempting to influence the results of their analyses, but had more opportunities to do so the «softer» the science, then we might expect that the social sciences have more papers that confirm a sought - after hypothesis than do the physical sciences, with medicine and biology somewhere in the middle.

Lesser men than the great scientists too readily assumed that all new knowledge must be made to fit the «scientific» dogma, just as earlier it was expected to fit the ecclesiastical dogma.

I think Carl Jung came up with some good ways of thinking about our cultural images and how they come about — that scientists many hundreds or thousands of years later might have the same sorts of cultural images informing their intuitions, and thus using those images as the basis for a theory of evolution is not so much extraordinary than it is to be expected.

Australian scientists have welcomed the success of a five - year Greenland ice core drilling project that is expected to reveal a record of more than 130 000 years and provide an insight into future global climate.

And New Scientist has learned it could be ready sooner than anyone expected — perhaps even by the end of next year.

BUT: Although scientists initially regarded the decision as better than expected, they soon had concerns.

«Trying something good for society has been my dream since boyhood, which has been realized at last by discovering statins,» he told us, «but my success as a scientist is far bigger than that I expected at the beginning of my work.»

A large area of the Greenland ice sheet once considered stable is actually shedding massive amounts of ice, suggesting that future sea - level rise may be worse than expected, a team of scientists warned yesterday in a new study.

This could mean the environmental impact from the fallout may last much longer than previously expected according to a new study by a team of international researchers, including scientists from The University of Manchester.

Now, scientists at the TU Vienna discovered that in this situation light and matter couple much stronger than previously expected.

The higher - than - expected temperature provided a unique window into the interior structure of ring particles not usually available to scientists.

No major toxic effects were observed, and the patient «was able to survive a much longer period than expected with an improved quality of life, which is clearly attributable to the treatment with 3BP,» the scientists concluded.

«In fact, it is OK and expected for the best scientists to be more than a bit obsessive about their work, and this is reflected in the hours they keep.

The team of scientists measured the amount of 15N15N in air and discovered that this rare form of nitrogen gas is far more abundant than scientists had expected.

Unencumbered by human frailties, Curiosity — like the rovers Spirit and Opportunity, which survived on the Red Planet years longer than expected — will be free to hunt for E.T. «If we find evidence for life on Mars, boy, are we just gonna go wild with speculation about how common it is in the universe,» says Lou Friedman, a former scientist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena and cofounder, with Carl Sagan, of the Planetary Society.

► Far fewer scientists are expected to attend this year's International AIDS Conference than in previous years, according to a ScienceInsider by Jon Cohen — about half as many as attended the 2012 meeting in Washington, D.C..

Whereas scientists in big pharma previously expected to have secure jobs for life, Rees believes they now have no greater sense of job security than those in biotech.

On the other hand, there were signs that disintegrating ice sheets could raise sea levels faster than most scientists had expected.

More than 425 scientists, educators, and students from the western United States are expected to attend the meeting.

In a presentation at a recent ocean acidification conference, Tatters reported that the more CO2 and the less silicate, the higher the diatom's toxin production — more than doubling at the level of dissolved CO2 scientists expect the oceans to reach by 2100.

According to Doudna, that suggests future homozygous work will be challenging — maybe far more so than scientists have expected.

The smaller - than - expected tremor has scientists scrambling to redefine rules for areas of extreme seismic stress

«Do we expect more nowadays from scientists than we used to in the past?»

Based on earlier research, scientists expected to find lower rates of CDA and celiac disease in the United States and Germany than in Sweden.

«This swelling means there's more stuff at higher altitudes than we would otherwise expect,» said Delores Knipp, a space scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder.

More than 425 scientists, educators, and students from the western United States are expected...

Still, data from the two main Tevatron detectors suggest that there are more particle «events» in the 115 billion to 135 billion electron volt range than one would expect if the Higgs did not exist, Fermilab scientists reported at an in - house seminar.

University of California, Irvine scientists expect the world's fisheries to be, on average, 20 percent less productive in the year 2300, with those in the North Atlantic down nearly 60 percent and those in much of the western Pacific experiencing declines of more than 50 percent.

«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.

Beneath the eastern United States, scientists have observed an area where seismic waves travel more slowly than expected.