Sentences with phrase «wound led scientists»

The skin's ability to grow back after a wound led scientists to assume that it must contain stem cells, immature cells that can rapidly differentiate into many different types of tissue.

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U.S. scientists have warned Congress that the significant demand for these minerals for use in high - tech and green technologies (like wind turbines, computer parts, and hybrid car batteries) could lead to shortages.

Using data from the GPS stations, an accelerometer that measures ground motion in Kathmandu, data from seismological stations around the world, and radar images collected by orbiting satellites, an international team of scientists led by Caltech has pieced together the first complete account of what physically happened during the Gorkha earthquake — a picture that explains how the large earthquake wound up leaving the majority of low - story buildings unscathed while devastating some treasured taller structures.

Scientists at Queen's University Belfast have led an international team to the ground - breaking discovery that magnetic waves crashing through the Sun may be key to heating its atmosphere and propelling the solar wind.

Professor Alberto Naveira Garabato from the University of Southampton, the lead scientist of DynOPO, said: «The Orkney Passage is a key chokepoint to the flow of abyssal waters in which we expect the mechanism linking changing winds to abyssal water warming to operate.

When this happens the cells in a group are no longer able to communicate efficiently, leading the scientists to wonder if this influence of organisation on communication could play a role in wound repair.

«We found at the time of the comet's passing, there was some solar wind disturbance around Mars,» said Olivier Witasse, a space scientist with ESA and lead author on the paper.

For example, a number of leading wind companies and other industry players are partners in the American Wind Wildlife Institute, which the Union of Concerned Scientists helped launch in 2wind companies and other industry players are partners in the American Wind Wildlife Institute, which the Union of Concerned Scientists helped launch in 2Wind Wildlife Institute, which the Union of Concerned Scientists helped launch in 2008.

Scientists agree that even a small increases in the global temperature lead to significant climate and weather changes, affecting cloud cover, precipitation, wind patterns, the frequency and severity of storms, and the timing of seasons.

«Changes in the atmosphere, specifically atmospheric pressure around the world, and the motions of the winds that may be related to such climate signals as El Niño are strong enough that their effect is observed in the Earth's rotation signal,» said David A. Salstein, an atmospheric scientist from Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc., of Lexington, Mass., who led a recent study.

If he had acted like a scientist and shown his work, or if he had simply not used his role as an IPCC Lead Author to help make that work internationally famous, he would never have wound up in front of Congress.

This is, the study says, in contrast to a study led by a scientist at Stanford University who said it could all be done by wind, water and solar power.

These building scientists take a lead in developing publications, materials, tools, technical bulletins and recovery advisories incorporating the most up - to - date building codes, floodproofing requirements, seismic design standards, and wind - related requirements for new construction, and the repair of existing buildings.