Sentence examples for scientists to date from inspiring English sources

They are even so predictably slow in their growth that they have been used by scientists to date the movement of glaciers and the ages of the stone monuments on Easter Island in the South Pacific.

The largest blue whale accurately weighed by NMML scientists to date was a female that weighed 177 tonne.

As one of the most famous female scientists to date, Marie Curie has become an icon in the scientific world and has received tributes from across the globe, even in the realm of pop culture.

Despite tremendous research efforts by basic and clinical scientists, to date the only effective therapeutic measures are early revascularization [mostly by systemic thrombolysis using recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rtPA)] and supportive care aimed at reducing acute complications (stroke unit concept, craniectomy) (Donnan et al., 2008).

Mr. Fanti said he thought the image could have been created by a "very intense burst of energy," which could have mutated the percentage of carbon-14 in the linen, leading some scientists to wrongly date it to the 13th century.

The independent research of the exhibit preparators, as they are called, sometimes helps bring the scientists up to date on the latest results in a specific field, Mr. Harvey said.

The assassination of nuclear scientists (two to date) and morale-sapping insurgencies among minorities along Iran's borders contribute to the sense of a country under siege.But this is not 1979.

The Vatican was deciding whether to allow scientists to carbon-date a segment of the cloth.

But when it comes to climate change and burning fossil fuels the scientists' warnings have to date been by and large ignored.

Scientists were able to date it by studying the different uranium, thorium and lead that were present in the rocks that it was stuck in and looking at the way that they decayed.

That could allow scientists to cross the ancient date with more modern varieties, in the hopes of creating palms more resistant to infection and drought, for example.