Sentences with phrase «years challenging scientists»

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To ensure that the social network keeps innovating, the company launched Pinterest Labs earlier this year, bringing together researchers, scientists, engineers and universities to tackle challenges in machine learning and A.I.

In recent years, some Christian scientists and philosophers have vociferously challenged this assumption, arguing for the necessity of appealing to intelligent agency to account for certain highly complex components of the universe, especially but not exclusively the cells of plants and animals.

Over the last two years, scientists from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Sweden have examined projections and current data to identify ways in which the dairy industry may respond to challenges such as population growth, urbanisation, and climate change, in order to meet increased demand for dairy products over the next half century.

Mass Audubon's Challenge was based on five years of project review, including three years of ornithological fieldwork; our assessment and comments on Cape Wind's first federal Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) and literature review; talks with ornithologists, scientists, and engineers; and a visit to Denmark's offshore wind farms during the 2005 spring bird migration.

The filing supports the Arizona Board of Regents and the University of Arizona's custodian of public records in their efforts to deflect the legal challenge of a group seeking the public release of 13 years of the two Arizona scientists» emailed correspondence with other scientists and organizations about their research.

Urban areas are set to sprawl over an extra area equivalent to most of Europe within 20 years, yet little is being done to prepare for the major challenges that expansion will bring, scientists said Tuesday.

The more precise dates for Neanderthal — human mating pose a challenge for scientists who have proposed that modern humans left Africa before 100,000 years ago and reached Asia more than 75,000 years ago, says Chris Stringer, a palaeoanthropologist at London's Natural History Museum.

Recruiting talented young scientists like Blasiak and keeping them on board for the long haul was cited by this year's survey respondents as one of the industry's biggest challenges.

Despite years of research by scientists around the world, the extraordinarily small size of matter at the nanoscale has made it challenging to learn how motion works at this scale.

The program, which kicked off last year, challenges scientists to construct a petaflop computer by 2018 that consumes no more than 57 kilowatts of electricity — in other words, it must be 40 percent as fast as today's reigning champ, while consuming just 1 percent as much power.

For many years, her interest in the issue was «humanitarian,» she says — inspired by years of «watching the growing challenge of brilliant young scientists» from her own lab trying «to break into the business.»

Now, however, David Silver, Demis Hassabis, and 18 other computer scientists at Google DeepMind, an AI company in London acquired by Google 2 years ago, have developed a program that confronts the challenges of Go directly.

Lilliputian Family Tremblaya is one of a growing family of extremely small endosymbiotic bacteria, discovered within the last seven years, that have challenged scientists» assumptions about the minimal blueprint of life.

Gathering all this mass in under 690 million years is an enormous challenge for theories of supermassive black hole growth, explains Eduardo Bañados, an astronomer at the Carnegie Institution for Science who led the international team of scientists.

The University of California has challenged the validity of all the Broad patents (now numbering about a dozen) and the ensuing «interference» proceedings may allow another year of trash talking by scientists and bloggers alike.

A few years ago several individuals, including Yoseph Bar - Cohen, a senior research scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., posted a challenge to the electroactive polymer research community to drum up interest in the field: a race to build the first EAP - driven robotic arm that could beat a human arm wrestler one on one.

For the past 10 years, Science and AAAS have challenged scientists to explain their Ph.D. research with interpretive dance.

And this year marks our 10th anniversary of challenging scientists around the world to turn their esoteric Ph.D. research into dance videos that delight and inform the public.

He challenged scientists to write an explanation of what a flame is «that an 11 - year - old would find intelligible, maybe even fun.»

The challenge of helping machines develop like youngsters will provide computer scientists with challenges for years — and the rest of us with some societal conundrums.

This is the 6th year of the contest, which challenges scientists to explain their doctoral research through the medium of interpretive dance.

This idea was challenged nearly 100 years later by the late Hungarian scientist Bla Julesz, a non-self-effacing man of unparalleled genius, while working at Bell Labs.

«We solved a 25 - year challenge in building diamond lattices in a rational way via self - assembly,» said Oleg Gang, a physicist who led this research at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) at Brookhaven Lab in collaboration with scientists from Stony Brook University, Wesleyan University, and Nagoya University in Japan.

«Over the past nine years, we've successfully harnessed a diversity of scientists and disciplines to collaboratively address the challenges of enabling the cellulosic biofuels enterprise on a scale far greater than any effort to date,» Gilna says.

Ever New: Hubble Through The Years 1:30 p.m. — 2:00 p.m. (streamed on Griffith ObservatoryTV) 7:00 p.m. — 7:30 p.m. NASA astrophysicist Dr. Ken Carpenter and Northrop Grumman engineer and executive Mr. Russ Matijevich recount the challenges faced by engineers, scientists, and astronauts in their efforts to keep Hubble ever new.

Through many of those years, Taylor was a frequent spokesperson for those scientists who regularly challenged whether climate change is real, human - caused, or, in either event, worth worrying about or doing anything to address.

The student challenge is different each year, and Science Buddies» senior staff scientists work to convert the adult challenge into something accessible and engaging for students and with materials that are readily available around the world.

Our Grand Challenges Initiative (GCI) develops sophisticated young scientists and driven problem - solvers through an immersive, collaborative, student - driven curriculum that spans students» first two years in Schmid College.

Particularly in an election year, Republicans do not want to challenge Bush with new legislation, even though some of the most strident conservatives in the party are now in favor allowing scientists to study cells from embryos that were frozen as part of assisted reproduction techniques.

Priddy's point is that HIV is an extraordinarily challenging and elusive virus and why, 30 years later, scientists are still trying to understand how the body produces HIV antibodies and how to harness that knowledge in a vaccine.

For some 14 years, scientists have been trying to figure out the structure of a particular protein - cutting enzyme from an AIDS - like virus, but failing to do so, turned the information over to the game's players, challenging them to see if they could produce an accurate model.

With the 2018 Year of Engineering coming up, Shell is calling on schools across Great Britain to take up this pressing challenge to help inspire the UK's future generation of scientists and engineers.

In one of the game's more recent challenges, players analyzed a monkey HIV protein whose structure had eluded scientists for fifteen years.

Follows the creation and launch of the first two Mars rovers in 2004, their explorations of the Red Planet for the following six years, and the challenges that faced the scientists who built and guided them.

Mr. Nodal states, «The Citizen Artists have employed a collaborative process with a multidisciplinary approach, involving all creative disciplines in collaboration with politicians, environmental activists, scientists, and community organizers to help individuals and communities understand and face the challenges of environmental justice, global environmental degradation, and for the last eight years, US indifference to environmental issues facing our world.

After the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and Robert Howarth, a Cornell University environmental scientist, used infrared imagery last year in a video claiming to show methane emissions from gas operations, the industry - funded group Energy in Depth released its own video challenging the group's conclusions, showing the difference between exhaust heat and methane gas.

Andrew faces the challenge with his Tweets, I do with news release headlines and frankly email subject lines, and scientists certainly do in reducing years of complicated work into manageable chunks of information for public consumption.

«The Flame Challenge has grown from scientists trying to answer the question of one 11 - year old (me) from many decades ago, to tackling questions on the minds of thousands of current 11 - year olds from around the world,» said Alda.

The Flame Challenge is an international contest started by Alan Alda that asks scientists to communicate complex science in ways that would interest and enlighten an 11 - year - old.

I'm in no way a climate scientist, merely an electrical engineer for the last 30 years, so certainly I'm not trying to challenge anyone here...

In short the past decade presents climate scientists both observational and modeler with more challenges that we thought we'd have in the year 2,000.

While those who stand in denial of climate change have failed in the last 15 years to produce a single, peer - reviewed scientific journal article that challenges the theory and evidence of human - induced climate change, mainstream media was, until very recently, covering the story (in more than half the cases, according to the academic researchers Boykoff and Boykoff) by quoting one scientist talking about the risks and one purported expert saying that climate change was not happening — or might actually be a good thing.

In 1990, two years after NASA scientist James E. Hansen issued his now famous warning about climate change during a congressional hearing, Lindzen started taking a publicly contrarian stance when he challenged then - senator Gore by suggesting in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society that the case for human - induced global warming was overstated and that natural climate variability could explain things just as easily.

The range for electric cars remains an elusive challenge yet to be solved by the best scientists spending billions over many years.

In their posts, the four scientists will confront challenges in global warming after years of inaction by the Bush administration, which opposed mandatory cuts of greenhouse gas pollution.

D'Aleo also challenged a prediction by Ahira Sanchez - Lugo, a climate scientist at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information in Ashville, N.C., who said during the press briefing that «we expect 2015 to be the warmest year on record.»

It's embarrassing to watch climate «scientists» (who ruled the media for years by exaggerated scenarios of desaster and very often blamed their disputants as «deniers» [remember the Holocaust] and unethical individuals) start to weep when their behaviour and parts of their science suddenly seriously is challenged.

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Well folks, the theme for Discovery's Young Scientist Challenge this year was a green one; and what an incredible opportunity it was for 40 of the top young scientists in the nation who made their way to the finals in Washington D.C. last week.

Announced in London alongside former US Vice President and climate campaigner Al Gore, the Earth Challenge Prize will be overseen by a panel of judges, including James Lovelock and NASA scientist James Hansen (whom we mentioned here), who will be looking for a method that will remove at least one billion tons of carbon dioxide per year from the atmosphere.