Sentences with phrase «than scientists previously»

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.

There's more water up there than scientists previously thought, and it was a far wetter and more active place in the distant past.

It also seems many changes are occurring faster than scientists previously expected.

This is a much faster pace than scientists previously expected, and there will no doubt be some disagreement about the accuracy of this new study as a result.

A new study shows clouds are playing a larger role in heating the Greenland Ice Sheet than scientists previously believed, raising its temperature by 2 to 3 degrees compared to cloudless skies.

Research from more than 100 scientists across the world, including that of Clemson professor of biological sciences Saara DeWalt, has recently combined to show that the world's tropical forests are more similar than scientists previously thought.

And a new discovery suggests it's even less human than scientists previously thought.

They may have crossed a tipping point due to increasing ocean acidification, raising the alarm that climate change impacts in the ocean are continuing to happen at a much quicker pace than scientists previously suspected.

But Petrenko also found that humans appear to be contributing more methane to the atmosphere through fossil fuel use and extraction than scientists previously believed.

And that cooler gas has much more mass than scientists previously estimated, Jessica Werk reported Jan. 7.

Sure it's no oasis, but there's more water up there than scientists previously thought, and it was probably a far wetter and more active place in the distant past.

These molecular assay techniques have revealed much larger numbers and types of microbes in the ocean than scientists previously suspected.

The brain may interpret the information it receives from sensory neurons using a code more complicated than scientists previously thought, according to new research from the National Autonomous...

It also seems many changes are occurring faster than scientists previously expected.

Florida's injection wells, for example, had been drilled into rock that was far more porous and fractured than scientists previously understood.

In a paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, FSU Assistant Professor of Geology Mainak Mookherjee reports that water exists far deeper in the Earth than scientists previously thought.

The Moon's surface is being «gardened» — churned by small impacts — more than 100 times faster than scientists previously thought.

However, a new University of Minnesota study with more than 1,000 young trees has found that plants also adjust — or acclimate — to a warmer climate and may release only one - fifth as much additional carbon dioxide than scientists previously believed, The study, published today in the journal Nature, is based on a five - year project, known as «B4Warmed,» that simulated the effects of climate change on 10 boreal and temperate tree species growing in an open - air setting in 48 plots in two forests in northern Minnesota.

Land - use changes in the United States, such as the conversion of undeveloped land to housing or agricultural use, appear to be contributing to global warming trends to a much greater degree than scientists previously thought.

The Big Picture RT The impacts of human - caused climate change are happening faster than scientists previously assumed, the AAAS CEO said on 6 July, during an appearance on The Hartmann Report, a radio and television talk show.

The tree also provides a baseline to test whether diurnal, or daytime, activity, a common butterfly trait, evolved much earlier than scientists previously believed, possibly at a time when bats» spread across the planet, as a means of escaping these and other nocturnal predators, Kawahara said.

Data from Voyager 1 show that the interstellar magnetic field beyond the heliosphere is stronger than scientists previously thought, meaning it could interact with the solar wind at the edges of the heliosphere and compact the heliosphere's tail.

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This changes a lot of what scientists thought they knew about how water bears deal with radiation, as they were previously thought to have proteins that repaired damaged DNA, rather than proteins that halt damage altogether.

In such a case, if it exists, the scientist would, of course, be compelled to withdraw his assent to the legitimate teaching authority of the Church, if it were supposed that he really considered the certainty of the scientific «result» as definitively truer and surer than the grounds which he had previously believed he possessed in justification for the claim of the Church to teach.

Scientists have discovered that the tomb Jesus was buried in may be older than previously thought.

Scientists are recognizing, too, that the brain and the emotions are much more malleable than previously suspected.

Personal ornaments previously found at a coastal cave in southeastern Spain are older than the cave art, dating to around 120,000 to 115,000 years ago, scientists report February 22 in Science Advances.

This large sample allowed the scientists to derive the most accurate high - mass segment of the IMF to date, and to show that massive stars are much more abundant than previously thought.

Humans colonized the New World earlier than previously thought — a revelation that is forcing scientists to rethink long - standing ideas about these trailblazers

They provide a crucial view of Earth's earliest evolution of multicellular life, which scientists now think started millions of years earlier than previously thought.

Scientists have found the halogen levels in the meteorites that formed the Earth billions of years ago are much lower than previously thought.

reported in the journal «Science», scientists led by Dr. Felix Creutzig from the Mercator Research Institute of Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC), Berlin, and Dr. Patrick Jochem, KIT, point out that the transportation sector may be easier to decarbonize than previously assumed in global emission scenarios.

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.

Now scientists have upped the ante with a new way to create «qutrits» that can be 0, 1, and 2 — and send them over longer distances than was previously possible.

The temperature 3,000 kilometres below the surface of Earth is much more varied than previously thought, scientists have found.

«Patchy weather in the center of Earth: The temperature 3,000 kilometers below surface of Earth is much more varied than previously thought, scientists have found.»

Scientists have discovered the oldest recorded stone tool ever to be found in Turkey, revealing that humans passed through the gateway from Asia to Europe much earlier than previously thought, approximately 1.2 million years ago.

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.

The researchers now think that cyanobacteria played a larger role than previously believed in creating phosphorites in shallow waters, thereby allowing today's scientists a unique window into ancient ecosystems.

A Smithsonian scientist and colleagues recently discovered that the beginnings of the turtle shell started 40 million years earlier than previously thought.

On December 6th, at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, Rohling presented calculations indicating that sea level worldwide could rise far more than scientists had previously thought.

«Climatic changes are threatening highly prized native trout as introduced rainbow trout continue to expand their range and hybridize with native populations through climate - induced «windows of opportunity,» putting many populations and species at greater risk than previously thought,» said project leader and USGS scientist Clint Muhlfeld.

Scientists at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Intramural Research Program (IRP) have uncovered evidence that shows a more complex and elaborate role for the body's hard - working G protein - coupled receptors (GPCRs) than previously thought, suggesting a conceptual advance in the fields of biochemistry and pharmacology.

In place of turbochargers and high - octane gas, the scientists tweaked their engine design and used an additive to speed the oxidation of hydrogen peroxide into fuel to create nanomachines 350 times more powerful than any previously built.

During the warm periods between recent ice ages, temperatures in Antarctica reached substantially higher levels than scientists had previously thought.

A team of scientists melted five samples of ice from Antarctica in hopes of reviving the oldest known frozen bacteria — millions of years older than any previously brought to life.

These objects transformed shape up to 90 percent faster than previously possible because the scientists incorporated the tedious mechanical programming steps directly into the 3 - D printing process.

Previously, scientists had thought that the algae technique, known as iron fertilization, could contribute to the drawdown of up to 1 gigaton of carbon a year — more than 10 % of current yearly emissions.

Scientists had previously uncovered hints, however, that ApoE4 might degrade differently than the other variants, but the protein that carried out this breakdown of ApoE4 was unknown.