Sentences with phrase «which hundreds of scientists»

Ellis's online efforts are just the kind of approach being explored at the Science Online 2012 conference I'm attending in Raleigh, N.C., at which hundreds of scientists, journalists and bloggers are trying to figure out fresh ways to convey (and in some cases conduct) science using the Web.

And the financial warnings were not as clearcut as the unique scientific experiment called the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in which hundreds of scientists and reviewers and nearly 200 governments have worked since 1988 to find common ground on how to interpret research on climate.

The detection of gravitational waves is an achievement for which hundreds of scientists, engineers and technicians around the world share credit.

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2 He suggested that scientists are moving away from a mechanistic model of the universe which has dominated their thinking for more than two hundred years.

Whereas scientists generally agree that there are anywhere from four to nine basic tastes, there are thousands upon thousands of distinct aromas, only a single molecule of which you need to light up one or more of our hundreds of olfactory receptors.

However, the impact of the two methylation - regulating enzymes was still seen at 10 to 15 months, when scientists found decreased expression of hundreds of genes — many of which are key tumor suppressor genes such as BMP3, SFRP2 and GATA4 — in the smoke - exposed cells and a five - or - more-fold increase in the signaling of the KRAS oncogene that is known to be mutated in smoking - related lung cancers.

Libbrecht still does his fair share of work on massive - scale science: He also works on the LIGO project, in which a few hundred scientists are studying gravitational - wave signals from supernovae and black holes.

After the government backed down, hundreds of scientists across the country organized into working groups to prepare a string of reports, which were then honed into last week's proposals.

Many young scientists produce hundreds of statistical runs «and they don't know what variables they've changed, and they don't know which run was supposed to do what, and they get all confused.»

A new analysis by geophysicist Steven Ward and planetary scientist Erik Asphaug of the University of California, Santa Cruz, concludes that the biggest tsunami hazard arises from asteroids between 30 and a few hundred meters across, which may strike the ocean every 1000 to 100,000 years.

Each second, the AMS will encounter 25,000 cosmic rays — high - speed atomic and subatomic particles (some from the sun, some from deep space), the most energetic of which pack hundreds of times as much energy as anything a scientist can whip up in an Earth - based particle accelerator.

And it doesn't exclude scientists who work at institutions that can't afford journal subscriptions, which range from hundreds to tens of thousands of dollars.

AT RISK A poison dart frog (Dendrobates auratus) in Panama is just one of hundreds of amphibian species that succumbs to the chytrid skin fungus, which scientists now know has a special trick for disabling frog immune systems.

Currently, scientists can use computer programs to design proteins that meet certain parameters, such as the ability to bind to certain molecules, but DropSynth could offer researchers hundreds or even thousands of options from which to choose the proteins that best fit their needs.

P. fluorescens produces as many as ten generations a day under the reported experimental conditions, which allowed the Georgia Tech scientists to study how they evolved over 120 generations — changes that would have taken hundreds of years in finches.

Planetary scientists have calculated that there are hundreds of billions of Earth - like planets in our galaxy which might support life.

The sludge, which engulfed hundreds of acres, damaged lakeside homes and polluted drinking water in Tennessee contained high levels of arsenic and elevated levels of radioactive radium, reported Duke University scientists.

Some scientists have criticized TCGA for focusing on gene sequencing while diverting funds from functional studies that can determine which of the hundreds of mutations are most important.

LINDAU, Germany — A 93 - year - old Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine received a standing ovation from hundreds of scientists on June 30 at the end of a speech in which he urged the world's young people to take measures to control runaway population growth in order to resolve related ills that have resulted from humans» remarkable evolutionary success as a species.

Scientists have already used the resource to identify hundreds of thousands of gene - phenotypes associations, many of which are completely new.

The new device rounds out a particle accelerator that has hundreds of times more heating power than the NDCX - I, which was operated by scientists in the mid-2000s.

Severinghaus discovered that xenon and krypton are well preserved in ice cores, which provides the temperature information that can then be used by scientists studying many other aspects of the earth's oceans and atmosphere over hundreds of thousands of years.

The scientists synthesized the sponges by a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process during which the CNTs (multi-walled nanotubes with diameters in the range of 30 to 50nm and lengths of tens to hundreds of micrometers,) self - assembled into a porous, interconnected, three - dimensional framework.

By replacing a relatively large region of DNA, the technique allows the scientists to fix many gene mutations at once, which suggests the method might provide a way to treat hundreds of types of HBB - related diseases.

Over hundreds of years, scientists have learned much about the brain, including the countless methods through which information is transferred from neuron to neuron at a junction called a synapse, and how hundreds — even thousands — of neurons can function together to form a larger circuit responsible for any given activity.

This all - natural joint supplement contains a potent blend of extracts, some of which have been used for hundreds of years to help those with arthritis and others that have been studied and tested by modern - day scientists.

, in which a scientist of the world of the future ponders Woody Allen on reawakening after a hundred years of sleep and requesting «wheat germ, organic honey, and tiger's milk.»

These teachers encourage their young learners to participate in regional, state and national science competitions, like NATA's Young Scientist of the Year Competition which has hundreds of entries each year.

At one point, we were about a hundred miles off the coast of New York City when we drifted over a place known to scientists as the Hudson Canyon, which is where the Hudson River used to drop over the continental shelf twenty thousand years ago when seas were lower.

In his recent project The Last Pictures, Paglen worked with MIT scientists to design a spacecraft able to last billions of years, which was launched into space with an archival disc inscribed with one hundred photographs that the artist chose to capture our present historical and cultural moment.

Several hundred viewers, including dozens of scientists, filed complaints about the film's accuracy, impartiality and fairness with Britain's Office of Communications, or Ofcom, which among many duties monitors standards for programming.

If not, the only way you can suppose that climate has always changed (which wasn't common knowledge until the last one hundred years) is by agreeing with the research and opinion of many climate scientists and others, who have built up a picture of a constantly changing climate over the history of this planet.

Sunday, the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which consists of hundreds of the world's top scientists, released the grand summary of its year's worth of work.

Scientists estimate that there are hundreds of millions of tonnes of methane gas locked away beneath the Arctic permafrost, which extends from the mainland into the seabed of the relatively shallow sea of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf.

Hundreds of scientists are against the new EPA proposal, which they say will undermine the agency's pollution regulations.

From April 8 to 13, 2018, more than 15,000 scientists from more than one hundred countries met in Vienna for the annual meeting of the European Geosciences Union (EGU), which addresses topics from all disciplines of earth, planetary and space sciences.

Apr 21, 2018: From April 8 to 13, 2018, more than 15,000 scientists from more than one hundred countries met in Vienna for the annual meeting of the European Geosciences Union (EGU), which addresses topics from all disciplines of earth, planetary and space sciences.

These lead to dozens of further NASA sites and hundreds of further scientific articles, of which a thorough, up - to - date, clear - written summary is provided by NASA scientist James Hansen's free - as - in - freedom survey Climate Sensitivity, Sea Level, and Atmospheric CO2

On what specific basis do you disregard the conclusions of the United States Academy of Sciences, and numerous other Academies of Sciences Around the World including the Royal Academy of the UK, over a hundred of the most prestigious scientific organizations whose membership includes those with expertise relevant to the science of climate change, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Geophysical Union, the American Institute of Physics, the American Meteorological Society, the Royal Meteorological Society, and according to the American Academy of Sciences 97 percent of scientists who actually do peer - reviewed research on climate change which conclusions hold that the Earth is warming, that the warming is mostly human caused, and that harsh impacts from warming are already being experienced in parts of the world, and that the international community is running out of time to prevent catastrophic warming.

On Friday the IPCC, which is made up of several hundred climate scientists from around the world, will release a roughly 30 - page summary of its new report tailored to the world's policy makers.

Chu had cut his teeth as a research scientist at the justly famed U.S. government - funded Bell Labs, which he saw as a model because they were responsible for inventing or developing a range of devices now part of the fabric of American life, from fax machines to TV transmission, radio astronomy, solar panel cells, the transistor, calculators, cell phones, Wi - Fi, and hundreds of other technological miracles.

I listened to what the climate scientists had to say and I disagree with their conclusions mainly on the basis of lack of backing data which only extends back a couple of hundred years.

Exxon has said there were such gaps in the latest report of the United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published in 2001, which had used the peer - reviewed academic papers of several hundred scientists.

Commenting on criticism of the Lavoisier Group by Clive Hamilton, the Cooler Heads Coalition notes that «Hamilton accuses the Lavoisier Group of painting the UN's global warming negotiations as «an elaborate conspiracy in which hundreds of climate scientists have twisted their results to support the climate change theory in order to protect their research funding» and adds, «Sounds plausible to us.»

The scientists were questioned why they made the design so incredibly lifelike, and they responded that they were in fact taking advantage of «a design created by hundreds of millions of years» worth of evolution which is incredibly energy efficient.»

Yes, it would certainly be better for corporations like ExxonMobil, which alone makes about ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS PER DAY IN PROFIT from fossil fuels, if climate scientists who understand that a rapid phaseout of fossil fuel consumption is urgently needed if we are to have any hope of averting the most catastrophic outcomes of AGW, would just stick to the science and keep their mouths shut about that so as not to «spur political action» to save civilization from destruction.

To answer this question, the scientists examined a hypothetical scenario in which the Big Five extinctions occurred suddenly, such that all of the species went extinct over just 500 years rather than over hundreds of thousands to millions of years.

This transparency paradox is at the core of Facebook's existential crisis today, and there's a real risk that the Cambridge Analytica story will make it more conservative in what it shares, which would affect the research of hundreds of good scientists who are working with the social network every day without breaching its terms of service in order to understand how Facebook is affecting our society.