Sentences with phrase «when leading scientists»

Clearly, the IPCC does not speak as one voice when leading scientists on its panel contradict its official position.

This is unacceptable at a time when leading scientists from all over the world are warning that greenhouse gases must be cut by at least 60 percent over the next half a century to avert the worst consequences of global warming.

Because, in the end, the underrepresentation of women in science can not be solved only by networking and events, and just because there is outrage when leading scientists make publicly sexist statements doesn't mean that it is going away.

I remember when the lead scientist was interviewed years ago about fudging the figures.

* The skeptics were handed a propaganda gift when a leading scientist and chairman of the AGU's task force on ethics admitted to lying for political purposes.

Not exact matches

According to the New York Times, scientists discovered that when we sit all day, «electrical activity in the muscles drops... leading to a cascade of harmful metabolic effects,» and sadly even getting regular doses of exercise doesn't offset the damage.

When the headhunter contacted him months before, he wouldn't tell Eckert much except that the company had been founded by famed scientist Rodney Brooks, who, until a few years earlier, had led MIT's computer - science and artificial - intelligence lab.

The Black Church in the African American Experience by C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence H. Mamiya Duke University Press, 519 pages, $ 47.50 When we cut through the many good reasons that lead social scientists to study religion, we find ourselves in the end confronting questions about politics.

For a time, that led scientists to look for archeological evidence that there might have been a great global flood at some time in human pre-history, before recorded history, when stories were passed down orally.

She claims to be a scientist but works for an organization that ignores any science that doesn't agree with the Bible, when she should be followinf the evidence where ever it leads and if it shows the Bible to be wrong then so be it.

Imagine, then, their great surprise when defenders of the status quo, who included some of the leading political scientists in the nation, instructed them in no uncertain terms that devices like competitive elections, labeled «procedural democracy,» counted as next to nothing in comparison to «substantive democracy.»

Support a multi-year effort led by world - class scientists to develop a blood test for earlier detection of breast cancer when survival rates are the highest, known as the EIF Breast Cancer Biomarker Discovery Project.

Points 2 and 3 might lead to their not believing in global warming, but when faced by such an overwhelming majority of scientist who believe it, it seems (to me) almost like a conspiracy theory to deny it.

In the long term, the results of the survey are expected to influence ongoing global conversations about the roles and responsibilities of scientists and engineers in society, help clarify public expectations of scientists and engineers, lead to the development of materials for the education of scientists and engineers, and provide empirical data for consideration when developing specific recommendations on the nature and scope of the social responsibilities of scientists and engineers.

Using supercomputers, scientists led by the University at Buffalo modeled what happens when two nanoparticles collide in a vacuum.

While being publicized in the mainstream media certainly makes researchers a target, being picked up in the skeptic blogosphere, which includes widely read blogs such asWatts Up With That, Climate Audit and Morano's Climate Depot, can also lead to scientists receiving email barrages, even when, as in Norgaard's case, the research has not received mainstream media attention.

«I also hope that this paper and video encourage more scientists to take an artistic approach when they start a new project, not necessarily to create a narrative - based story, but to explore their idea the way an artist explores a canvas, because that makes the mind open to a different form of serendipity that can lead to unexpected results.»

Just when scientists thought they had deciphered the roles played by the cell's leading actors, a familiar performer has turned up in a stunning variety of guises.

«When Greg first spotted the worms gliding through a clam field in Monterey Bay, we jokingly called them purple socks,» said MBARI scientist Robert Vrijenhoek, a co-author of the study who led the deep - sea expeditions using remotely operated vehicles.

Elif Tekin, the paper's lead author and a UCLA graduate student, helped create a sophisticated framework that enabled the scientists to determine when adding a third antibiotic was producing new effects that combinations of just two drugs couldn't achieve.

Yet, when those rights are violated, Dr. John Edsall - the eminent Harvard biochemist and a leading figure in creating the committee - argued that scientific associations «have not only a right but a responsibility to concern themselves with the defense of human rights of scientists.»

Nonetheless, all scientists must be ready to deal with the press when the publication of their research leads to media inquiries.

«In summer when people are thinking about 4th of July fireworks and barbeques, long before the first snow has fallen, our experimental prediction system tells us what the following March will be like,» said Sarah Kapnick, a physical scientist at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory who led the research that appears online today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

«When we measure that a particular stand of mature forest is accumulating carbon, it is difficult to say whether that might be due to recovery from some unrecognized disturbance long ago or whether it is due to more recent changes in climate and CO2,» explained Woods Hole Research Center Senior Scientist and Executive Director Eric Davidson, lead author of the review, in an e-mail.

Using an innovative crystallization technique for studying three - dimensional structures of gene transcription machinery, an international team of researchers, led by scientists at Penn State, has revealed new insights into the long debated action of the «magic spot» — a molecule that controls gene expression in Eschericahia coli and many other bacteria when the bacteria are stressed.

In the samples studied by the scientists, there are also high levels of atmospheric contamination from lead during the Roman Empire, when large quantities of this metal were extracted in the south of the Iberian Peninsula, as well as during the past 300 years, coinciding with the Industrial Revolution and the reactivation of mining activity in southern Spain.

A team of scientists led by research physicist Dan Lubin at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego has created for the first time an estimate of how much dimmer the Sun should be when the next minimum takes place.

«Findings from our study can help managers determine the most viable ways to enhance valuable recreational fisheries in Lake Michigan, especially when the open waters of the lake are declining in productivity,» said Yu - Chun Kao, an MSU post-doctoral scientist and the lead author of the report.

A research team, led by Professor Tomonori Totani (School of Science, the University of Tokyo) and composed of scientists from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, the Tokyo Institute of Technology and others, has discovered an indicator of when re-ionization of the primordial Universe began.

In 1991, scientists estimated that it would take 5 years to extinguish and cap more than 500 oil wells that the Iraqi army had left burning in Kuwait when it fled before the U.S - led invasion.

«When my friend and I knew that we'd be coming out of our postdocs at around the same time, we began to share ideas and pass along leads for the positions we saw advertised,» one scientist told me at a talk I recently gave in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The mystery deepened last summer when Stern and a group led by New Horizons project scientist Hal Weaver discovered two additional, minuscule satellites circling Pluto.

INBio's importance is clear when one looks at its productivity: The institute has led research on about 30 percent of known species in Costa Rica with the participation of more than 600 scientists from 42 different countries.

In research spanning 15 years, Yale University scientists merged white blood cells with tumor cells, leading to remarkably metastatic hybrids that were lethal when implanted into mice.

This research into real - time, micro - and nanoscale mechanisms of corrosion provides valuable information that the scientists can build upon, which may lead to models and predictions of how and when materials in confined spaces are likely to corrode.

«When it comes to adults, we don't know long - term consequences of moderate marijuana use in the legal context, so that we can not say that we absolutely must intervene,» explained Marina Epstein, a UW research scientist and lead author of the study.

In 2009, when Ravelo led an expedition of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) to the Bering Sea (with co-chief scientist Kozo Takahashi of Kyushu University, Japan), one of her main goals was to investigate the role of the North Pacific Intermediate Water in climate change.

This led the scientists to propose that an inability to distinguish friend from foe can leave a family on the defensive during times when they could be reproducing.

In the 1960s, scientists in Taiwan traced an outbreak of blackfoot disease, caused when dying blood cells lead to gangrene, to arsenic - contaminated well water.

Scientists were even more stunned in July 2002 when researchers led by stem cell biologist Catherine Verfaillie at the University of Minnesota reported that bone marrow — derived cells they had injected into young embryos contributed to all three embryonic layers, just as embryonic stem cells would do.

To simulate the uptake of lead particles by scavengers when feeding on shot wildlife, the scientists ran feeding experiments in the field where they provided mammalian carcasses prepared with metal particles of different size and shape.

In the Rutgers study, Zong and lead author Ji - An Pan, a scientist in his laboratory, looked at liver and heart damage in laboratory mice and found that the mice in which the TRIM21 gene was inactivated suffered little heart or liver damage when put through the same laboratory procedures used to produce tissue damage in mice with the gene.

Scientists in Italy have discovered a simple eye drop that may reverse glaucoma, the disease caused when pressure builds in the eye, injuring nerve cells and ultimately leading to blindness.

When testing crystalline (red) and fluid (green) materials in an environment free of noise — sound vibration or disturbances that are known to act upon a solidifying material — scientists at Florida Tech and Arizona State University discovered that a previously unknown field modulated the speed and shape of the crystal - melt interface, leading to the pictured pattern formations.

GANs» content - generating capabilities are a good start when it comes to developing AI that can solve real - world problems, says Ian Goodfellow, a staff research scientist at Google and lead author of the 2014 paper that first described the concept of GANs.

«When we are learning new information, our brain has two different ways to remember the material for a short period of time, either by mentally rehearsing the sounds of the words or thinking about the meaning of the words,» says Dr. Jed Meltzer, lead author and neurorehabilitation scientist at Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute.

«We learned what patterns look like when Zac wants to bend his knee or climb the stairs,» explains lead scientist Levi Hargrove.

The completed genome could help scientists pinpoint how and when the tomato was first domesticated, and it may even lead breeders to that holy grail: an even better tomato.

But a crucial leap occurred in 2012 when a group led by Jennifer Doudna of the University of California, Berkeley, and Emmanuelle Charpentier, now at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin, demonstrated the possibility of simple CRISPR - based gene - editing to a broad audience of scientists with a paper in Science.

Resveratrol made headlines in 2006 when Harvard University scientists led by pathologist David Sinclair, the other cofounder of Sirtris, detailed its seemingly miraculous properties.