First, "greenhouse gases" refers to several gases recognized by scientists as enhancing the greenhouse effect.
The specific bacterium identified by scientists as being responsible, Clostridium novyi Type A, is found in soil and animal droppings.
This question is being taken increasingly seriously by scientists as more is learnt about the impact a near earth object (NEO) would have on the future of civilization.
Sir Mark Walport, the director of Wellcome Trust, said that his organisation is in the final stages of launching a high calibre scientific journal called eLife that would compete directly with top-tier publications such as Nature and Science, seen by scientists as the premier locations for publishing.
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Though it has been described by some scientists as the "least worst" option.
It was hailed by several scientists as a step toward producing the first man-made organism that, according to Venter, could as soon as five years from now help solve global warming by reducing our reliance on fossil fuels.
The effort was spearheaded by notable scientists such as the late David Hawkins, an assistant to A-bomb designer J.
The notion of long-term climate change -- particularly as caused by humans -- is politically controversial but generally accepted as fact by most scientists.
The Workshop was attended by high level officials of the local authorities as well as by Turkish scientists mainly from the ITU and representatives of nine other earthquake-prone countries (Chile, Egypt, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Peru and Romania).
The WHO also announced diagnostic tests were being developed by scientists around the world as quickly as possible.
The FTC, which is mainly staffed by lawyers, has beefed up its technological know-how in recent years by hiring computer scientists, such as Ed Felten of Princeton, who better understand the complexity of how information is passed around on the Internet.
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Some of the problems faced by women scientists in the Middle East are the same as those faced by women around the world.
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The research is politically controversial but generally accepted as fact by most scientists.
The science is politically controversial but generally accepted as fact by most scientists.
Long-term climate change fueled by a buildup of atmospheric carbon emissions is a controversial notion politically, but it's one accepted as fact by most scientists.
Trees, plants and soils currently absorb approximately one quarter of the CO2 emissions produced by humans, but climate scientists such as Lewis believe that may soon come to an end.
At worst they seem to see it as a scheme by devious scientists to thwart Nature's just revenge.
Ivins had been questioned previously by the FBI, as had many scientists assisting the FBI, the source said.
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But there are many who argue that techniques that are made technically possible by the inventiveness of reproductive scientists, such as cloning, are not always socially desirable.
The belief that women are biologically destined to be domestic and subordinate is just a construct, created by psychologists and social scientists, and used as an ex-post-facto justification for inequality.
The number 400 has been anticipated by climate scientists and environmental activists for years as a notable indicator, in part because it's a round number not because any changes in man-made global warming happen by reaching it.
LONDON, England (CNN) -- A breakthrough in human embryonic stem cell research by scientists in South Korea has been hailed as ground-breaking, with the potential to fight a host of ailments, but some people have raised ethical concerns.
There is, of course, one big "but, " and that is whether the simulating computer is using a lattice constructed in the same way as the one imagined by the scientists.
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"I'm ready to be the first Iranian to be sacrificed by the scientists of my country and go into space, " he is quoted by state media as saying.
The team had examined 14 coprolites, as fossil faeces are termed by polite scientists.
Modern climate scientists, by contrast, usually see geoengineering research as niche, if not fringe, stuff.
As Testbiotech was informed by the French scientists, the original planning for the study was 90 days but was then prolonged after unexpected observations.
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Nasa scientists will be hugely disappointed by this latest failure as a successful mission would have given them the first ever close-up images of the mysterious lunar surface.
The finding adds to growing concerns that the threat to public health posed by air pollution may have been overlooked as many scientists chose to focus on smoking instead.
T67 was originally discovered by two Tularik scientists, Julio Medina and Bei Shan , as a cholesterol-lowering drug.
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