Sentence examples for present-day scientists from inspiring English sources

John Zogby did not achieve a reputation for polling prescience by asking Americans whether the woolly mammoth ought to be brought back from extinction by present-day scientists.

Present-day scientists and engineers hope to take advantage of that phenomenon not for heating, but the opposite: for building a new type of refrigerator that is quiet and efficient.

"Flu," by Gina Kolata, a science reporter for The New York Times, goes over some of the territory, but she is really concerned with the efforts of present-day scientists to recover the virus that caused the pandemic.

But even if it was an accidental discovery, the rocket is part of a fine, ongoing tradition: a surprising number of present-day scientists have, at one time or another, sailed the good ship Serendip.

Would present-day scientists have chosen different careers if they hadn't done research as undergraduates?

Each exhibit portrayed present-day scientists carrying out their work in the laboratory or in the field, depending on their area of expertise.

Our two stars reappear in other guises, spread throughout the action: sometimes as Tommy and Izzi Creo, a present-day scientist and his dying wife, at other times — and I am flying blind here, despite having seen the film — as a future Tom and the same Izzi, or a ghost-white memory of her, floating through deep space.

Though human awareness of this phenomenon is as old as from the Babylonian times (ca. 2300BC) where different sexes were known for date palms [ 5], however, its importance in use of plant material in traditional medicine seems to have escaped the attention of ancient masters as well as of the present day scientists as is evident from lack of references in global literature on traditional medicine.

In Shakespeare's plays, Mark Antony (in Julius Caesar) and the Duke of Buckingham (Richard III) display the principles of propaganda and discuss them in words and concepts that anticipate the present-day behavioral scientist.

His third film, the confused fantasy The Fountain, dealt with a 16th-century conquistador, a present-day American scientist and an astronaut in the 26th century searching for eternal life.

This confused, nearly-indescribable film stars Hugh Jackman as Tomas, a conquistador in 16th-century Mexico, a present-day American scientist called Tommy Creo (cryogenics, geddit?) and a 26th-century astronaut, all searching for eternal life.