Sentences with phrase «why matters»
Why It Matters: The solid - liquid interface is the most common interface in electrochemical systems.
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Why it matters: The demand for miniaturization of electronic devices will benefit from a more in - depth understanding of nanostructured materials.
Why it Matters: The Southern Ocean's borders are comprised of the southernmost parts of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, and is one of the cloudiest places on Earth.
Why it matters: Current global climate models used to predict climate change account for large - scale climate processes, typically at scales greater than 100 kilometers, or about 62 miles.
Why It Matters: Today's materials will not likely solve our nation's mounting energy challenges.
Why It Matters: Detailed molecular data can change the way we research and think about biological systems.
Why It Matters: To understand convective clouds in climate models, the tall and turbulent storm clouds promising rain, scientists need to describe the strong forces within them.
Why It Matters: The findings, published in Science, have implications for decades - old questions in science and technology such as how animals and plants grow minerals into shapes that have no relation to their original crystal symmetry.
Why It Matters: On average, atmospheric rivers hit the western United States only a few times each winter, but they transport significant amounts of moisture that converges in the mountains producing heavy precipitation.
Why it Matters: Combating intergranular embrittlement and disintegration is necessary for preventing metal alloy failure during service life, yet oxidation remains a potentially dangerous obstacle to overcome.
Why it matters: Aerosols play a large role in our climate system.
Why It Matters: T1DM affects more than 1 million individuals in the United States alone.
Why it matters: In many ways, what happens in the Arctic does not stay in the Arctic.
Why It Matters: Electron attraction and repulsion determine how atoms and pseudo-atoms behave in different environments.
Why It Matters: Aerosols, tiny airborne particles of dust and pollution suspended in the atmosphere, affect the atmosphere and the surface of Earth by scattering and absorbing light.
Why It Matters: Sequestering carbon - based emissions, especially from coal - fired power plants, is vital to managing climate change, which affects cities and crops.
Why It Matters: As the Earth's climate warms, the sources and availability of water are affected.
Why It Matters: The Earth's water cycle is affected by energy exchanges via evaporation, transpiration, condensation, and precipitation, to name a few.
Why it matters: Emphysema, asthma, and lung cancer.
Why It Matters: Power plants that burn coal and other fossil fuels emit more than 40 percent of the nation's carbon dioxide.
Why It Matters: Current atmospheric computer models do not consider the evolving chemistry of the organic aerosols.
Why It Matters: More than half the Earth's precipitation comes from ice - bearing clouds formed via several ice - forming mechanisms (see sidebar, Ice Nucleation).
Why It Matters: From monsoons in Mumbai, cyclones in Cairns, to floods and windstorms battering Seattle, the MJO leaves its mark on communities world - wide.
Why It Matters: The Arctic is warming faster than any other region of the world.
Why It Matters: Climate models involve millions of calculations on such things as air flow, heat transfer, and movement of moisture through the atmosphere.
Why It Matters: Like a dark blanket, the soot acts to warm the ice and snow enough to speed up snowmelt and shrink glaciers.
Why It Matters: This study sets the stage for efforts to engineer yeast to optimize lipid accumulation and maximize the yield of carbon - based products.
Why it matters: Electron transfer by MtrC, an outer membrane cytochrome on S. oneidensis, can stabilize contaminants, mitigating their impact on the population and environment.
Why It Matters: Tropical cyclones rank among the most destructive and deadliest natural hazards, affecting millions of people annually across the world.
Why It Matters: As the grandest feature of atmospheric circulation over much of North America, the jet stream plays a key role in orchestrating weather systems that usher in the seasons.
Why it matters: Guessing the amount of sky covered by clouds is a familiar pastime.
Why it matters: Hydrogen bonds and the networks they form play an important role in understanding and controlling processes from refining crude oil to metabolizing proteins.
Why it matters: Salmonella is a leading cause of food - borne illness and is the culprit bacterium in high - profile food recalls, such as peanut butter in 2008/2009 and the current one of ground turkey that has led to 77 illnesses and one fatality reported in the United States to date.
Why it matters: The quantity of solar radiation reaching the Earth's surface is the primary driver of the Earth - atmosphere system.
Why it matters: Recent research has suggested that even the most important catalysts used in industry aren't working as effectively as they could.
Why It Matters: «Overall, our research shows that proper bridging of synthetic catalysts and features from natural enzymes can help us develop novel sets of materials that can have activity far beyond any natural enzymes,» said Shaw.
Why It Matters: When toxic atmospheric particles are inhaled, they impact public health.
Why It Matters: The quality and quantity of freshwater is being increasingly affected by new demands on the system - not only increased demands for use, but changes in the climate.
Why It Matters: To arrive at regional and global climate projections, scientists must consider thousands of complex variables to simulate climate processes.
Why It Matters: Passing laws to regulate carbon dioxide emissions, methane emissions, or industrial particles could have an important effect on climate change.
Why it matters: «This technique will be useful for forensic scientists,» said PNNL's Dr. James Moran, who leads the development team.
Why It Matters: Whether they are creating a catalyst for petroleum - free fuel or designing better drug therapies, scientists need to control ions» actions in water.
Why It Matters: Retooling America's energy industry requires storing surplus energy generated from renewable technologies.
Why It Matters: The Earth's climate involves complex interactions among ever - changing physical components and chemical processes.
Why It Matters: The nation relies on fossil fuels to meet its residential and industrial energy demand, with coal providing about half of the electricity consumed in the United States.
Why It Matters: The grand challenge is to make materials that efficiently capture sunlight and generate electricity.
Why It Matters: Energy storage from wind farms.
Why it matters: Because the secretome is important for tissue function and equilibrium as well as cell communication, proliferation and organization, studying these proteins may lead to new treatments and biomarker discovery.
Why It Matters: Generally hidden from our perception without advanced scientific instrumentation, electrostatic forces attract fine bits of particulates that cement onto surfaces, creating costly problems.
Why It Matters: Increasing our nation's independence from fossil fuels for our transportation fleet requires energy storage.