Sentences with phrase «tiny number of researchers»

In particular, they questioned why NSF would want to take such steps, fretted that any new requirements would increase the already heavy burden on institutions to comply with federal rules, and wondered whether greater scrutiny might be an overreaction to a problem that they said affects only a tiny number of researchers.

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And yet the flight to physics rather gives the game away, since measured any way you like — volume of papers, number of working researchers, total amount of funding — deductive, theory - building physics in the mold of Newton and Lagrange, Maxwell and Einstein, is a tiny fraction of modern science as a whole.

The researchers measured toxicity using a biological assay, by counting the number of dead Daphnia — tiny crustaceans — in water containing the different ladybird toxins.

MIT researchers have developed a new design system that catalogues the physical properties of a huge number of tiny cube clusters.

Using a more extensive number of samples for molecular and morphological analysis, researchers from the University of Richmond and The George Washington University described a tiny new species of narrow - mouthed frog from the Microhylidae family in the open access journal ZooKeys.

A team of scientists led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory atmospheric researcher Dr. Susannah Burrows and collaborator Daniel McCoy, who studies clouds and climate at the University of Washington, reveal how tiny natural particles given off by marine organisms — airborne droplets and solid particles called aerosols — nearly double cloud droplet numbers in the summer, which boosts the amount of sunlight reflected back to space.

While those reductions are tiny in absolute numbers, researchers have uncovered mechanisms by which the climate system can amplify the effect of those small changes.