The virus is also capable of mutating rapidly, which scientists on all sides of the issue say increases the need to keep an eye on it.
Throughout the Andes, glaciers are now melting so rapidly that scientists have grown deeply concerned about water supplies for the people living there.
In it, he expressed concern that the technologies of GNR – genetics, nanotechnology, robotics – were developing more rapidly than scientists had previously expected, while no one appeared to be examining their social implications.
But with populations of many species such as chinstrap (Pygoscelis antarctica) and Adelie (Pygoscelis adeliae) found to be rapidly declining, scientists needed new ways to study penguins and the threats they face.
The climate crisis is unfolding far more rapidly than scientists predicted.
Now the news from the North Atlantic suggests that globally the epidemic of mercury poisoning can be reversed far more rapidly than scientists had imagined.
Rising seas, acidifying oceans, melting ice caps, worsening droughts, floods, heat waves and intensifying migrations and extinctions: all these are happening more rapidly than scientists had predicted they would in 1990, the year the first IPCC report was released.
Then on Sunday morning, I started thinking about Rahm again when I read that the Dead Zones in the Ocean, especially the Pacific and especially the Pacific Northwest, are spreading rapidly, alarming scientists who don't know why.
DNA microarray technology has rapidly seduced scientists and clinicians with the ability to simultaneously measure the expression of tens of thousands of transcripts, enabling data-driven, holistic comparisons of groups or populations of cells, subtyping tissues, or predicting prognosis [ 1, 2].
