With a lightning "switch" at their fingertips, materials scientists could find out what happens when mighty currents meet matter.
有一个便于取用的闪电“转换器”，材料科学家们就可以弄清当强大的电流与物质相遇时会发生什么。
Scientists could use human cells to grow new organs.
科学家可以用人类细胞来培育新的器官。
I realized that the handrail would not come off, which meant we could no longer be able to replace the power supply and repair that instrument, which meant scientists could no longer look at the universe and find life on other planets.
我意识到，扶手不会脱落，这意味着我们再也无法更换电源供应和维修仪器，这意味着科学家们再也无法观察宇宙，在其他星球上寻找生命。
In the future, scientists could use drugs to 'turn on' genes, which could trigger hair growth.
未来科学家可以用药物来“激发”基因，这样就可以刺激毛发的生长了。
At first, scientists could not tell if the writing was Hebrew or some other local language.
起初，科学家们说不清楚碎片上的文字究竟是不是希伯来文还是另外的地方语言。
Suppose scientists could erase certain memories by tinkering with a single substance in the brain.
假如科学家能够通过修改脑中的某种物质来消除特定的记忆。
So forensic scientists could use a bloodstain to narrow a victim’s age to within two decades.
这样，法医可以利用血迹是受害者的年龄范围缩小到20年以内。
But space is very large, and if LIGO scientists could pinpoint their search, they might detect those ripples sooner.
尽管宇宙很大，如果LIGO的科学家能精确定位他们在哪搜索，他们迟早会发现宇宙涟漪。
Scientists could use airplanes to inject sulfur dioxide directly into the stratosphere and bring down global temperatures.
科学家们可以用飞机直接将二氧化硫散播到平流层而使全球气温下降。
Scientists could then detect and record the specific brain wave patterns triggered when the rats detected different targets.
当老鼠嗅探到不同的目标时，科学家们可以探测和记录这些物体所触发的特定脑电波。
Scientists could perfect the predictive powers of the test, which costs about $100 to $120, within a few years, Yuan said.
科学家们对这一尿检的预测结果进行进一步完善，几年之后，平均每次尿检费用为100至120美元。
However, if scientists could control the production of Higgs singlets, they might be able to send messages to the past or future.
然而，如果科学家可以控制希格斯单线态粒子的产生，他们或许可以向过去或未来发送信息。
Scientists could look for such hallmarks of alien technology on Earth and the moon, in near space, on Mars and among the asteroids.
科学家可以在地球和月球以及周围区域寻找地外技术的标志。
Because the police had some of the man's wavy black locks, with roots intact, the scientists could subject them to C-14 dating as well.
因为警方掌握该名男子的一束波浪状黑发，且发根完整无损，科学家们可以把头发一起用作碳14测定。
Scientists could be forced to re-write the history of the evolution of modern man after the discovery of 400, 000-year-old human remains.
科学家们在发现了400，000年前人类的残骸后，不得不重新书写现代人类的进化史。
They expect that most people would be capable of producing the antibodies, if scientists could find the right way to stimulate their production.
研究人员估计，如果科学家能发现如果刺激这个抗体的产生，大部分人体都有可能产生这类抗体。
If they can slow photons down enough — Hau is shooting for about a centimeter a second — scientists could make images of the light as it passes by.
如果科学家能够使光子减慢到足够的程度——Hau教授力争使其达到大约每秒一厘米，那么，他们就可能在光经过它时画出光的图像。
And, in fact, he did make some more strides, he was a brilliant thinker, maybe he put it more articulately than those two younger scientists could have.
事实上，他的确走的更远一些，他是个天才，也许他的表达方式，比那两个年轻的科学家更加清晰。
The reactor itself was built with a lot of “debugging” possibilities on purpose, so that scientists could have a lot of experimental material available.
核反应堆本身的建造即伴随着许多可能的“尝试”，因此科学家们准备了多种试验材料。
Since 2008, botanists have been using technology to help them compile the list. This was essential as scientists could not sort the 1.3million records by hand.
从2008年起，植物学家利用电脑技术来编纂名录，这是必不可少的，因为单凭科学家双手不可能将130万植物名整理在案。
Therefore by comparing the genomes of the two birds, the scientists could identify the genes that are most likely to be important in singing and learning to sing.
因此，通过比较这两种鸟类的基因，科学家们可以确认，这部分基因对于一个鸟类是否会唱歌而且会学习唱歌非常重要。
It's possible scientists could have looked at genetic similarities in the mitochondria or even Y chromosome of samples as well, depending on what's available to test.
有可能，科学家依据哪个能够用来进行测试，可以看到样本中线粒体或Y染色体的遗传相似性。
It is hoped by analysing Brooke's DNA, scientists could gain a fresh insight into the process of ageing and even develop new therapies and treatments for diseases linked to old age.
科学家希望通过研究布鲁克的基因，他们可以知道衰老的过程的奥秘，甚至可以发明出新的治疗和老年病有关的治疗方法。
But it's possible that scientists could someday induce a person's body to create a natural jolt of morphine that might prove less damaging than injecting the substance into the body.
但可能的是科学家有朝一日能诱发人体产生一种天然吗啡抗体，这可能比向人体注射危害更小。
Even if scientists could agree on the contribution of global warming to the rising frequency of such disasters, it would still be hard to classify the causes of any given catastrophe.
即使全球的科学家可以同意全球暖画会使天灾更加频繁，但是要将任何天灾的原因归类出来，还是相当困难；
Even if scientists could agree on the contribution of global warming to the rising frequency of such disasters, it would still be hard to classify the causes of any given catastrophe.
即使全球的科学家可以同意全球暖画会使天灾更加频繁，但是要将任何天灾的原因归类出来，还是相当困难；
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