Sentence examples for explains a phenomenon from inspiring English sources

"If it can work in mice," Dr. Klar asked, "why can't it work for handedness in people?" The beauty of the theory is that it explains a phenomenon that has long baffled geneticists: how can identical twins with exactly the same genetic makeup have different handedness, as 18percentt of them do?

According to a 2010 paper in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, "When a theory or a model explains a phenomenon clearly, directly and economically, we say it is elegant: one idea, easy to understand, can account for a large amount of data and answer many questions".

The group "elegantly" explains a phenomenon familiar to many but poorly understood, says Howard Stone, a physicist at Harvard University.

This paper proposes a model that explains a phenomenon of only few cracks that significantly widen more than other cracks in tensile reinforced fibrous concrete (RFC) bars.

Dr Michael Hastings, from the Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology, told the BBC: "It's a great paper, it gives a beautiful molecular mechanism which explains a phenomenon that's been kicking around for a long time".

The observation of one or a handful of observations that make sense, picked from thousands of possible such evaluations, does not constitute a robust argument that the elevation or loss of a particular gene explains a phenomenon such as low blood pressure or elevation of a serum analyte.

Didn't anyone tell Taylor that you can't explain a phenomenon like James Brown any more than you can explain Mozart?

Is it possible to explain a phenomenon like Jeffrey Dahmer, the notorious serial killer who murdered 17 men and cannibalized parts of their bodies?

Technically, it is needed to explain a phenomenon called electroweak symmetry breaking, which divides two of the fundamental forces of nature, electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force.

Gelman's piece was titled, "Lamentably ignorant psychology researcher spews political platitudes without realizing that he's trying to explain a phenomenon that does not exist".

The findings could explain a phenomenon well known to airline companies: passengers tend to lose their sense of taste when they are in the air.