One of the more arresting 30-second spots is an enigmatic ad for a pro-Kremlin Web site, russiatoday.ru, and magazine, Russia Today; it offers a surprising spin on the proverbial Butterfly Effect: a soccer ball kicked through a scientist's window eventually results in a handsome New Russian couple waiting impatiently on a snow-covered tarmac for a private jet that fails to arrive.
In other words, knowing how bright they actually are and how bright they appear to be through a telescope, scientists may be able to calculate how far away they are.
Thanks to a 3D reconstruction created by slicing the rare fossil into 200 pieces and scanning them through a computer, scientists believe the 400-million-year-old creature sported a leathery exterior and a protective hood, which it probably used to hide its tentacles when predators were nearby.
To clock the speed or measure the volume of blood passing through a region, scientists magnetically "tag" certain water protons in circulating blood, making them visible by magnetic resonance imaging.
Frankly, I don't want to fuck with this thing because I'm afraid my subconscious might use it to speak to me through a process scientists call Ideo-Motor Response, or IMR.
Beginning in the upper floors of her father's grocer's shop in Grantham, through Oxford as a scientist and, later, as part of the team that invented Mr Whippy ice cream, she embarked upon a political career.
Seeing how quickly waves move through an area, scientists can then begin to visualize not only the structure of what lies beneath the surface but the way in which those rocks and sediments will react to actual temblors.
A scientist through and through, Dr. Balcombe can't help giving the study of animal pleasure a properly scientific name: hedonic ethology.
When it comes to climate change, maybe the pragmatic business of policy design might finally take precedence over trying to convince a Republican Congress to see the world through a climate scientist's eyes.
The cover letter may be read and screened by anyone, from a nontechnical office manager through a Ph.D. scientist who heads up a research division.
