Sentences with phrase «thousands of leading scientists»

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In this day in which teams of scientists are devoting their skill to the problem of helping alcoholics and AA has achieved such impressive success in leading thousands to sobriety, the pastor examines his own meager success in the field and wonders whether he should leave such work to the scientists and to AA.

Yes, I like thousands of highly credentialed scientists from the world's leading academic and scientific institutions who have written dozens, if not hundreds of books casting doubt on Evolutionary Theory, I do have our doubts about evolutionary theory and Darwinism.

Scientists have often talked about «the butterfly effect» wherein it is entirely possible that a single flap of a butterfly a thousand years ago on the other side of the world sparked off a chain of events that ultimately and eventually led to an F5 tornado ripping through Moore, Oklahoma.

That caused pressures to spike to more than a million times those of Earth's atmosphere and temperatures to rise to thousands of degrees, conditions scientists had predicted may lead to the formation of superionic ice.

Even if the near future doesn't unfold like the 2004 climate - gone - haywire film The Day After Tomorrow, scientists need to be able to produce accurate models of what abrupt change (more likely spanning hundreds or thousands or years, rather than days) would look like and why it might occur, explains Zhengyu Liu, lead author of the study and director of the University of Wisconsin — Madison's Center for Climate Research.

Dr Florent Ginhoux, senior principal investigator at SIgN and lead scientist of the study, said previous research had examined thousands of cells at once.

By analyzing the fossils of thousands of ancient crustaceans, a team of scientists led by NMNH paleontologist Gene Hunt has found that devoting a lot of energy to the competition for mates may compromise species» resilience to change and increase their risk of extinction.

Despite repeated rejection by the scientific community, it has spawned a movement, led to thousands of legal claims, and even triggered occasional harassment and threats against scientists whose research appears to discredit it.

Many leading scientists say the approaching El Niño looks similar in magnitude to the huge one that started in 1997 and went on to kill tens of thousands of people and cause tens of billions of dollars of damage.

With previous studies showing that higher temperatures, caused by global warming, have led to more unstable mountain rocks — the scientists, who took part in the new study, believe that using the two monitoring techniques together could prove vital for thousands of skiers and mountain climbers who undertake trips every year.

That much dust — tens of thousands of tons — could not have been created by the blow alone, says Mike A'Hearn, the project's lead scientist and an astronomer at the University of Maryland: «You can not pulverize that much material in an impact.»

Published today in Nature, the research led by scientists at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute also provided diagnoses of rare conditions for over a thousand children and their families.

THE THOUSAND TALENTS plan, or Qianren Jihua — aimed at recruiting up to 2000 leading scientists, entrepreneurs, and financial experts over 5 to 10 years — was launched in 2008 by the Communist Party of China's powerful Organization Department.

This policy has already led to organized movements to boycott American scientific conferences, and thousands of scientists have already pledged to participate in this boycott («Inside Higher Ed» January 31, 2017).

Published today (25 January 2017) in Nature, the research led by scientists at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute also provided diagnoses of rare conditions for over a thousand children and their families.

For more than 20 years he has been a lead developer of the PSI quantum chemistry package, which was one of the first electronic structure packages to be distributed under a fully open - source license and is used by thousands of molecular scientists worldwide.

In the latest issue of the journal Cell, a team of scientists led by Gladstone Institutes and University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Investigator Nevan Krogan, PhD, Texas A&M University's Craig Kaplan, PhD, and UCSF Professor Christine Guthrie, PhD, describe a new technique — called the point mutant E-MAP (pE - MAP) approach — that gives researchers the ability to pinpoint and map thousands of interactions between each of an enzyme's many moving parts.

Besides the attempt to avoid the bioethical tug - of - war that is human stem - cell research, the scientists have a very logical reason for turning to cow eggs: In order to really study stem - cell development in a way that could lead to tangible benefits in medicine, researchers need to look at thousands and thousands of specimens, and human eggs are in short supply.

Charting the network of discoveries that led to the development of important therapeutic drugs, the investigators revealed that, up to now, the path to a cure has required thousands of scientists and many decades.

Led by UNC School of Medicine scientists, researchers from across the country used data from thousands of genetically diverse mice to show that some female mice pass on one copy of the R2d2 gene more frequently than the other copy.

Scientists had used the Knorr, a 244 - foot steel - hulled research vessel that was operated by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, for thousands of research expeditions around the world, including one that led to the discovery of the wreck of the RMS Titanic.

Scientists working to sort out hundreds of thousands of genes found that some sequences on canine chromosomes are similar to some sequences on human chromosomes and can therefore lead to the discovery of markers for some diseases or abnormalities in both species.

The eighth in a series of BioBlitzes being held in national parks across the United States leading up to the centennial celebration of the National Park Service in 2016, the Golden Gate National Parks BioBlitz will gather thousands of volunteer scientists, students and community members to measure and highlight the biodiversity of these unique national parks in the heart of the urban Bay Area.

Led by more than 320 volunteer scientists from across the country, thousands of amateur explorers, families, and students on school field trips conducted a comprehensive inventory of the plants, insects, mammals, birds, and other species that inhabit national park sites north and south of the Golden Gate, including Point Reyes National Seashore, Muir Woods National Monument, the Marin Headlands, the Presidio of San Francisco, Mori Point, and Rancho Corral de Tierra.

A worldwide panel of certified legitimate climate scientists from the worlds leading climate / science organisations (USA, Britain, Japan, every nation on the planet) literally thousands of scientists who got together and produced the IPCC reports (all 4 of them) on the undeniability of climate change are all wrong.

Not only that, but scientists must do exactly what evolution scientists and geologists are forced to do, and comb over every last detail with a fine tooth comb and make sure their are NO published discrepancies, because even the smallest data variation leads to thousands of crazed unscientific nut - jobs storming about how everything you have ever said is a lie and that you are a dirty fraudulent alarmist and nothing more.

The commitment of many thousands of the world's leading scientists and other experts to the assessment process and to the communication of the nature of our understanding of the changing climate, its impacts, and possible adaptation and mitigation strategies is a considerable achievement in its own right.

And to point out the problems with the IPCC that led to the questionable claim achieving such prominence, or to seek to challenge the claim is to identify oneself as a «denier `, and to draw questions asking what qualifications we have to speak about the IPCC's reports — seemingly the work of «thousands of the world's best scientists».