A scientist working at her lab bench and a six-old baby playing with his food might seem to have little in common.

After all, the scientist is engaged in serious research to uncover the very nature of the physical world.

As a child, few people guessed that he was going to be a famous scientist whose theories would change the world.

As some psychologists put it, \It is not that children are little scientists but that scientists are big children.\

Back in 1983, two scientists, Jack Schultz and Ian Baldwin, reported that young maple trees getting bitten by insects send out a particular smell that neighboring plants can get.

By tracking people's e-mails and online posts, scientists have found that good news can spread faster and farther than disasters and sob stories.

Children may have greater ability to figure out things than scientists.

Chinese scientists recently had a chance to study a wild female panda with a newborn baby.

Eyeing these headwinds, plastic-bag makers are hiring scientists like stein to make the case that their products are not as bad for the planet as most people assume.

Had the governments and scientists not worked together, aids-related deaths would not have fallen since their highest in 2005.

Here's how Harvard Medical School scientist Margaret Livingstone, who led the team, described the experiment: in their cages the monkeys were provided with touch screens.

His strange habit makes sense when you consider that he's an environmental scientist who studies how to reduce litter, including things that fall off garbage trucks as they drive down the road.

I'm a scientist who studies animals such as apes and monkeys.

In the 1960s, scientists proposed that predators at the top of a food web had a surprising amount of control over the size of populations of other species - including species they did not directly attack.

Long-ago builders could have attached wooden poles to the stones and rolled them across the sand, the scientists say.

Many scientists suspect workers first would have put the blocks on sleds.

Mark Turin, a scientist at the Macmillan Centre Yale University, who specializes in the languages and oral traditions of the himalayas, is following in that tradition.

No matter where you are on the risk-seeking range, scientists say that your willingness to take risks increases during your teenage years.

Perhaps evolution provided human babies with curiosity and a natural drive to explain their worlds, and adult scientists simply make use of the same drive that served them as children.

Prevention is key, scientists says because once ecosystems pass their tipping point, it is remarkably difficult for them to return.

Research findings seem to indicate that the creation by a great artist is as permanent an achievement as the discovery by a great scientist.

Scientists and babies often interact with each other.

Scientists and babies seem to observe the world differently.

Scientists find from their studies that plants can protect themselves against insects.

Scientists have advanced many theories about why human beings cry tears, none of which has been proved.

Scientists have also turned to nonhumans to increase understanding of attraction.

Scientists have built an early-warning system based on mathematical models.

Scientists have found that all kinds of plants give out vocs when being attacked.

Scientists have obtained more evidence that plastic is finding its way into the human body.

Scientists have painted a long road red, yellow, and white.

Scientists have responded by noting that hungry bears may be congregating聚集 around human settlements, leading to the illusion错觉 that populations are higher than they actually are.

Scientists wonder how much the brain gets involved.

Since then, many scientists have thought that our actions do make a difference.

So scientists are trying their best to save the species from going out of existence.

So scientists have come up with a shocking idea.

Social robots are about to bring technology to the everyday world in a more humanized way, said Cynthia Breazeal, chief scientist at the robot company jibo.

Some scientists even say we can live as long as 130 years! Yet, our cells simply cannot continue to reproduce endlessly.

Sonke Johnsen, a scientist in biology, says, \these animals live through their life alone\.

Stephanie Dutkiewicz, a scientist in MIT's center for global change science, built a climate model that projects changes to the oceans throughout the century.

The benefits of this kind of engineering come with consequences 一 called light pollution 一 whose effects scientists are only now beginning to study.

The effect is so powerful that scientists speak of songbirds and seabirds being\captured\by searchlights on land or by the light from gas flares on marine oil platforms.

The idea is that white coats are associated with scientists, who are in turn though to have close attention to detail.

The possibility of entering into and losing such a match should concentrate the minds of computer scientists.

The possibility that there is life on other planets in the universe has always inspired scientists to explore the outer space.

The same cognitive systems that make young children feel good about feel good about figuring something out may have been adopted by adult scientists.

The ship was the endurance, a small, tight, norwegian-built three-master that was intended to take sir Ernest shackleton and a small crew of seamen and scientists, 27 men in all, to the southernmost shore of antArctica's weddell sea.

Though scientists have learned a lot about the universe, there is much we still don't know.

Viewing childhood development as a scientific investigation throws light on how children learn, but it also offers an inspiring look at science and scientists.

With such models, scientists have found out some key principles operating in food webs.

A young woman sought explanation from a brain scientist when she noticed her unusual memory.

Then in the late 1500s,food scientists in the Netherlands cultivated large, straight, sweet, red carrots like the ones we eat today.

The scientists suggest this may be an attempt to calm humans down.

The scientist confirmed the snake was a previously unknown species after conducting a genetic analysis of tissue samples.

Scientists identified 20 of the one-meter-long snakes during two trips to the Caribbean islands.

As I began to read about scientists, economists, and philosophers, I started imagining myself in their shoes.

Scientists are in general agreement that the warmer conditions we have been experiencing are at least in part the result of a human-induced global warming trend.

His rich knowledge as a computer scientist and electronic engineer.

a political scientist at the University of Colorado, Boulder, who studies disaster trends, said the Forum's report was a methodological embarrassment because there was no way to distinguish deaths or economic losses related to human-driven global warming amid the much larger losses resulting from the growth in populations and economic development in vulnerable (易受伤害的) regions.

However, Soren Andreasen, a social scientist at Dalberg Global Development Partners who supervised the writing of the report, defended it, saying that it was clear that the numbers were rough estimates

The popular notion that older people need less sleep than younger adults is a myth, scientists said yesterday.

The impact of a salary cut is probably less severe for a scientist in the early stages of a career.

A concern of psychological scientists is the extent to which all of these characteristics are influenced by nature and nurture(养育), by genetic makeup and the environment.

Higher up the ladder, where a pay cut is usually more significant, the demand for scientists with a wealth of experience in industry is forcing universities to make the transition (转换) to academia more attractive, according to Lee

Industrial scientists tend to receive training that academics do not, such as how to build a multidisciplinary team, manage budgets and negotiate contracts.

the author means few industrial scientists would quit to work in a university.

few industrial scientists would quit to work in a university.

What contribution can industrial scientists make when they come to teach in a university

In 1958, Australian scientist David Warren developed a flight-memory recorder that would track basic information like altitude and direction.

Say, you know, this is the best student I've ever had, says Kuheli Dutt, a social scientist and diversity officer at Columbia University's Lamont campus. Compare those excellent letters with a merely good letter: 'The candidate was productive, or intel

Compare those excellent letters with a merely good letter: The candidate was productive,or intelligent,or a solid scientist or something that's clearly solid praise, but nothing that singles out the candidate as exceptional or one of a kind.

Writing in the journal, the scientists describe how the storks from Germany were clearly affected by the presence of waste sites, with four out of six birds that survived for at least five months overwintering on rubbish dumps in northern Morocco, instead of migrating to the Sahel.

Travel was arduous and costly throughout the period, possible only for a privileged class—the same that produced gentlemen scientists, authors, antique experts, and patrons of the arts.

The scientists tracked white storks from different colonies in Europe and Africa.

Social scientists say the differences arise in part because low-income parents have less money to spend on music class or preschool, and less flexible schedules to take children to museums or attend school events.

Many scientists believe that El Ni o events, caused by warming in the Pacific, are becoming more intense as a result of climate change.

Last year, the Royal Society in London said in its report that scientists need to shift away from a research culture where data is viewed as a private preserve.

It is imperative to protect scientists' patents.

Historically, scientists have objected to sharing for many reasons: it is a lot of work; until recently, good databases did not exist; grant funders were not pushing for sharing; it has been difficult to agree on standards for formatting data; and there is no agreed way to assign credit for data.

By making the effort to organize and label files so others can understand them, scientists become more organized and better disciplined themselves, thus avoiding confusion later on.

But the barriers are disappearing, in part because journals and funding agencies worldwide are encouraging scientists to make their data public.

But Pay Drechsel, an environmental scientist, argues that the social and economic benefits of using untreated human waste to grow food outweigh the health risks.

Today, the mainstream belief among scientists is that race is a social construct without biological meaning.

Some scientists are examining the potential for harvesting icebergs form Antarctica, which is estimated to have the biggest reserves of fresh water on the planet.

So what other variables could be used if the racial concept is thrown out? Yudell said scientists need to get more specific with their language, perhaps using terms like ancestry or population that might more precisely reflect the relationship between humans and their genes, on both the individual and population level.

Scientists and engineers have long believed in the promise of batteries to change the world.

In one example that demonstrated genetic differences were not fixed along racial lines, the full genomes ( ' , 基因组 ) of James Watson and Craig Venter, two famous American scientists of European ancestry, were compared to that of a Korean scientist, Seong-Jin Kim.

Bearded Russian priests offer regular services at the Orthodox church for the 16 or so Russian speakers who spend the winter at the base, largely polar scientists in fields like glaciology and meteorology.

American scientists complain about lack of sufficient money and equipment for their expansion in Antarctica.

Previously, scientists noticed pollutants arriving in the Arctic with the wind.

It’s no surprise that high-profile athletes can influence children’s eating behaviors, but the scientists were able to quantify how prevalent these endorsements are in the children’s environment.

Canadian scientists have found a worrisome new example of the power that birds have to spread stuff around.

Politicians may tackle polluters while scientists do battle with carbon emissions.

More than a decade ago, cognitive scientists John Bransford and Daniel Schwartz, both then at Vanderbilt University, found that what distinguished young adults from children was not the ability to retain facts or apply prior knowledge to a new situation but a quality they called preparation for future learning.

In the UK, new studies are in development and social scientists are regularly spotted in British government offices.

How do we convince our inner caveman to be greener? We ask some outstanding social scientists.

But social scientists are most concerned about crafting messages that exploit our group mentality ( ' , 心态 ).

Viewed from scientists’ standpoint, allthe energy contained in fuel either now or in the future becomes heat.

Scientists have devised a way to determine roughly where a person has lived using a strand of hair, a technique that could help track the movements of criminal suspects or unidentified murdervictims.

\She was a scientist on the level with a lot of people we spend a lot of time talking about,\ said Kay Etheridge, a biologist at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania who has been studying the scientific history of Merian's work. \She didn't do as much to ch

Cambridge scientist Peter Wadhams who's been measuring and monitoring the Arctic since 1971, says the decline is irreversible.

Caroline Wagner, a research scientist at George Washington University, notes that international collaborations offer additional flexibility.

I think she is to be commended for making an effort to include anecdotes about little known female scientist.

In some cases, says data scientist Karthik Ram, it may be difficult for junior researchers to embrace openness when senior colleagues—many of whom head selection and promotion committees—might ridicule what they may view as misplaced energies.

In one example that demonstrated genetic differences were not fixed along racial lines, the full genomes of James Watson and Craig Venter, two famous American scientists of European ancestry, were compared to that of a Korean scientist, Seong-Jin Kim.

There has never been a better time for collaborations with foreign scientist.

American social scientist Lewis Henry Morgan introduced another theory of cultural evolution in the late 1800s.

Scientists jumped to the rescue with some distinctly shaky evidence to the effect that insects would eat us up if birds failed to control them.

Within the complex social structure of the scientific community, researchers make discoveries; editors and reviewers act as gatekeepers by controlling the publication process; other scientists use the new finding to suit their own purposes; and finally, the public ( ' , including other scientists) receives the new discovery and possibly accompanying technology.

When social scientists do tackle practical issues, their scope is often local: Belgium is interested mainly in the effects of poverty on Belgium, for example.

To paraphrase the great social scientist Joseph Schumpeter: there is no radical innovation without creative destruction.

This has resulted in protests from social scientists.

The idea is to force social scientists to integrate their work with other categories, including health and demographic change; food security; marine research and the bio-economy; clean, efficient energy; and inclusive, innovative and secure societies.

The European Union Framework funding programs have long had a category specifically targeted at social scientists.

Social scientists who complain about a lack of funding should not expect more in today’s economic climate.

It could be that we are evolving two communities of social scientists: one that is discipline-oriented and publishing in highly specialized journals, and one that is problem-oriented and publishing elsewhere, such as policy briefs.

Global challenges and social innovation ought to receive much more attention from scientists, especially the young ones.

Despite these factors, many social scientists seem reluctant to tackle such problems.

As of 2005, there were almost half a million professional social scientists from all fields in the world, working both inside and outside academia.

What’s not to like? Quite a lot, according to a handful of scientists quoted in the News Feature.

The new awards are an exercise in self-promotion for those behind them, say scientists.

As much as some scientists may complain about the new awards, two things seem clear.

Professional scientists are expected to know how to analyze data, but statistical errors are alarmingly common in published research, according to David Vaux, a cell biologist.

Psychologist and behavioral scientist Nicholas Epley oversaw a key study into self-enhancement and attractiveness.

The pattern was observed by political scientist Andrew Hacker in the late 1970s.