Sentences with phrase «way early scientists»

Could it be that we have taken for granted the existence of something fundamental, the way early scientists took for granted the existence of God?

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Yes, religion has done some good along the way, and some of the earlier scientists were religious and even church - funded, but science has since been able to explain much of how the world works.

6/24/2017 Scientists make water bottles the old - fashioned way to see if they were toxic to early Californians

Janda is a psychologist and behavioural scientist who looks at ways to prevent cancer by raising awareness and at ways to catch it quickly using early detection.

To the growing group of scientists pondering the ways in which science might eventually destroy humanity, it is the earliest warning of such risks.

«I'm probably still more efficient than my peers because of the way I had to structure my working environment» early on as a scientist parent, says McKendrick, who is now the head of the optometry and vision sciences department at the University of Melbourne in Australia.

Now that the tsunami of cash has receded, many life scientists — especially those in the early phase of their careers — have found conditions no better, and in some ways worse, than before the process began.

She also encourages early - career scientists to volunteer in the local school system or science museum — another way of finding out if you like this kind of work.

That opened the way for scientists to visit the Burke Museum of the University of Washington to continue an analysis that may shed light on the origins of the earliest North Americans.

Through brain imaging, Baycrest scientists have found evidence that the brain uses eye movements to help people recall vivid moments from the past, paving the way for the development of visual tests that could alert doctors earlier about those at risk for neurodegenerative illnesses.

Help Is on the Way (for Some) 4 April 2008 A flurry of activity in early March, intended to ease the problems of young scientists, did little to address America's most fundamental science - workforce issues.

For the third year in a row, Science News highlighted 10 early - and mid-career scientists on their way to widespread acclaim.

Since, as Marcus notes, «some U.S. universities and colleges may be going the way of the music and journalism industries,» scientists at early stages of their careers may wish to consider whether they ought to tie their futures to institutions that, failing drastic reform in the near future, will in many cases continue «facing skeptical customers, declining enrollment, an antiquated financial model that is hemorrhaging money, and new kinds of low - cost competition.»

«This opens a new door in identifying biological markers for dementia since we might consider using the brain's processing of speech sounds as a new way to detect the disease earlier,» says Dr. Claude Alain, the study's senior author and senior scientist at Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute (RRI) and professor at the University of Toronto's psychology department.

In some ways, Imre Miklós Szilágyi is not a typical early - career scientist.

For younger scientists eyeing careers in British academia, Goldstein suggests that the best way to get a job may be to do an early postdoc here.

He says that young black investigators should mark themselves early as committed, dependable scientists in the eyes of reviewers, and the best way to do that is to publish.

Participating in events like the Rally to Stand Up for Science in Boston earlier this month is just one way that scientists can engage on policy issues.

Feedback that he's received from early - career scientists has reinforced the idea that being independent is the way to go.

In July scientists came up with an easy — and early — way to tell: Look at the sonograms.

Earlier, locked in the 10 - meter - square «intervention room» on the third floor, scientist fought scientist in the battle over whether to proceed with an established way to plug the leak, the so - called «top kill» operation.

For the second year in a row, Science News is highlighting 10 early - and mid-career scientists on their way to widespread acclaim.

Their work, published in the January 29th issue of Science, could change the way scientists understand melanoma and other cancers and could lead to new, early treatments before the cancer has taken hold.

Scientists think that billions of years ago the sun may have burned off Earth's early atmosphere in the same way it is now blowing off Pluto's.

Scientists are trying to decipher early signs that may indicate risk of psychosis later on, and they are testing ways to reduce that risk.

Earlier this year, Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's largest island piped up with explosive eruptions and toxic sulfur dioxide emissions, sending U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists scrambling to predict the volcano's next move and whether neighboring villagers would be in harm's way.

The Target NEO 2: Open Community Workshop was organized by a group of planetary scientists alarmed at the way that NASA had conceived and then announced its Asteroid Retrieval Mission (ARM) in early April.

When molecular biologist and Princeton University President Shirley M. Tilghman first sounded the alarm about the need for major overhauls to the way the United States trains its biomedical workforce in the 1998 National Academies of Science report Trends in the Early Careers of Life Scientists, many of her proposals fell on deaf ears.

The account of the ways in which the medieval Christian church attempted to suppress early scientists, which Abdus Salam in his preface regards as particularly impressive, consists of little more than a list of ten examples drawn from A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology published almost a century ago.

The real value of the PI - predictor widget, then, is not that it can help early - career scientists plan their careers; in fact, we should hope they don't use it that way.

Welcome to The Countdown, the Scientific American show that counts down the five coolest things happening now in space news.Episode 1: July 26, 2012 Story 5 Galaxies from the early universe usually look kind of lumpy or blobby, but scientists have spotted one with a spiral structure, making it look a lot like our own Milky Way galaxy.See Primordial Pinwheel: Astronomers Spot Oldest Prominent Spiral Galaxy Yet.

Yamanaka was referring to a recent string of public apologies by stem cell scientists in Japan, triggered by two high - profile papers published earlier this year that claim to have found an alternate way to reprogram adult cells into embryolike ones — called STAP (stimulus - triggered acquisition of pluripotency) cells.

Scientists previously thought it wasn't possible to capture and store carbon this way because earlier studies suggested it could take thousands of years for large amounts of carbon dioxide to be converted to chalk.

Intensive training programs like the one Heil attended can be great ways for early - career scientists to learn about nontraditional approaches to conducting science, hone specific research skills, get a crash course in a new field, explore interdisciplinary research, or use focused time to make headway in their work.

Scientists have been attempting such a feat for years, refining their methods along the way, and the Irvine team finally saw success: the cells were integrated in the brain and caused large - scale rewiring, restoring the high - level plasticity of early development.

One way to improve this current situation is to offer capacity building programs such as mentoring for continuous career development of BMENA early career scientist, especially because many BMENA countries do not offer Ph.D. or postdoc programs.

The Institute: brings together a wide range of scientists, including physicists, engineers, chemists, biologists as well as HMS clinicians to address fundamental questions about the behavior and functioning of biological systems; allows biologists, engineers, and clinicians to potentially use such knowledge to foster applications and new technologies; and provides a way for the tool - developers (physicists, engineers, computer scientists) to work with the tool - users (biologists, chemists, clinicians) in the early stages of scientific inquiry and encourage scientific collaboration at the innovation stage of tool development.

Scientists are exploring ways to identify biomarkers for PD that can lead to earlier diagnosis and more tailored treatments to slow down the disease process.

Ahead of our Early Career Scientist Research Symposium, she looks at the ways infection control has become part of our lives.

In the paper, published May 6, 2015 in Nature, the scientists report using these new stem cells to develop the first reliable method for integrating human stem cells into nonviable mouse embryos in a laboratory dish in such a way that the human cells began to differentiate into early - stage tissues.

«Scientists had identified and diagrammed these circuits in the late 80s and early 1990s, but there had been no way to test their function in animal models,» explained Dr. Kreitzer.

«This work, in combination with the Liu lab's earlier work on base editors, gives scientists new ways to make single - base changes at the level of DNA.»

In a bid to detect cancers early and in a noninvasive way, scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center report they have developed a test that spots tiny amounts of cancer - specific D...

The jellyfish has given off its evening shine for centuries, but in the early 1990s, scientists developed a way to use GFP in biological studies.

«The Presidential Early Career Awards are an important way for the President of the United States to recognize the central role that outstanding scientists and engineers play in advancing the Nation's goals, tackling grand challenges, and contributing to the American economy,» said Berkeley Lab Director Paul Alivisatos.

Work done by scientists in the early 20th century on identifying individual nutrients in food and developing ways to manufacture them raised hopes that optimal health could be achieved and diseases prevented by adding them to food and providing people with dietary supplements; while there were successes in preventing vitamin deficiencies, and preventing conditions like neural tube defects by supplementation and food fortification with folic acid, no targeted supplementation or fortification strategies to prevent major diseases like cancer or cardiovascular diseases have proved successful.

On Wednesday, the center will publish a report that calls for an online and in - person network that uses recent advances in scientists» understanding of the way young brains grow to create and test early - childhood interventions.

The Fabians and the social scientists, writers and teachers saw, in a way earlier generations had not, that children were people, with identities and desires and intelligences.

Revkin: I think climate scientists and the universities, organizations or agencies they work for are still in the early stages of exploring new ways to communicate their findings.

On the same ship a few years earlier, as expedition leader Howard Whelan recounted to me, «We traveled more than 1,000 miles out of our way to pick up scientists from a research station who otherwise would have overwintered a second year.