Scientists assume that cholesterol ( from the Greek chole, meaning bile, and sterios, meaning solid ) is somehow necessary for the formation of brain cells, since it accounts for about 2% of the brain's total solid weight.

Scientists dismiss these mechanisms as implausible since, for example, the magnetic field, when measured from earth, of a large but distant planet such as Jupiter is far smaller than that produced by ordinary household appliances.

* Chemists and Materials Scientists from the U. S. Department of Labor's Occupational Outlook Handbook

* Camp David from the Federation of American Scientists

This belief in the unreality of imperfection, stemming from the allness of God, Spirit, is the basis of Christian Scientists ' characteristic reliance on prayer in place of traditional medical care, often with the aid of Christian Science practitioners.

Christian Scientists may take an intensive two-week " Primary " class from an authorized Christian Science teacher.

Christian Scientists distinguish their method from “ faith healing .” To a Christian Scientist, “ faith healing ” is something that relies merely on blind faith in miraculous cures.

Scientists also note that HIV-negative drug users do not suffer from immune system collapse.

Scientists at the Earth Institute of Columbia University have analyzed data from 1950 to 2004 and suggest that ENSO may have had a role in 21 % of all civil conflicts since 1950, with the risk of annual civil conflict doubling from 3 % to 6 % in countries affected by ENSO during El Niño years relative to La Niña years.

Scientists initially assumed that she had been able to store sperm from her earlier encounter with a male, an adaptation known as superfecundation.

In 1959, a letter in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists was the start of a successful campaign to stop the Atomic Energy Commission dumping radioactive waste in the sea 19 kilometres from Boston.

Scientists from laboratories hired out by the recent excavators of the site, The Academy of Athens, say that they can use the electrons trapped on the inner surface of the stones to positively identify the date that the stones were quarried and put together.

Scientists are also distinct from engineers, those who develop devices that serve practical purposes.

Scientists analyzing photographs taken by United States astronauts on the joint United States-Soviet space mission in July 1975 detected a vast fan-shaped complex of cracks and fault lines extending north and east from the Golan Heights.

Scientists in the United States from the Manhattan Project had warned that, in time, the Soviet Union would certainly develop nuclear capabilities of its own.

Scientists working for Kinsey reported data which led to the conclusion that people are capable of sexual stimulation from birth.

Otto Frisch, the discoverer of the possibility of chain reactions from fission, in an article in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists describing his first impressions of Los Alamos: I also met Stan Ulam early on, a brilliant Polish topologist with a charming French wife.

Scientists have been increasingly able to attribute the observed ozone depletion to the increase of man-made ( anthropogenic ) halogen compounds from CFCs by the use of complex chemistry transport models and their validation against observational data ( e. g. SLIMCAT, CLaMS — Chemical Lagrangian Model of the Stratosphere ).

Scientists from poorer, emerging or developing democracies may mainly be given the role of collecting raw data.

Scientists from China, England, France, Israel, the Netherlands, Norway and the USA participated in the first experiments at PETRA alongside many German colleagues.

The Union of Concerned Scientists advocacy group points out that, at the Nevada Test Site, the depth required to contain fallout from an average-yield nuclear test was over 100 meters, depending upon the weapon's yield.

Scientists have noted that while there are similarities, there are many differences that set the fennec fox apart from other fox species, including both physical and social traits.

Scientists fired ultra-fast pulses from an extremely powerful laser thus sending several terawatts into the clouds to call down electrical discharges in storm clouds over the region.

* Secrecy News from the Federation of American Scientists

Scientists at NASA and Penn State University published a paper in April 2011 addressing the question " Would contact with extraterrestrials benefit or harm humanity?

Scientists at Liverpool University in England performed genetic tests on three eggs that collapsed after being moved to an incubator, and verified that Flora had never been in physical contact with a male dragon.

* October 2006: Scientists at Newcastle University in England create the first ever artificial liver cells using umbilical cord blood stem cells.

* January 2007: Scientists at Wake Forest University led by Dr. Anthony Atala and Harvard University report discovery of a new type of stem cell in amniotic fluid.

* 2004-01-29, ScienceDaily: NIST / University Of Colorado Scientists Create New Form Of Matter: A Fermionic Condensate

Scientists such as Jared Diamond in The Third Chimpanzee, and Morris Goodman of Wayne State University in Detroit suggest that the bonobo and common chimpanzee are so closely related to humans that their genus name also should be classified with the human genus Homo: Homo paniscus, Homo sylvestris, or Homo arboreus.

The Doomsday Clock is a symbolic clock face, maintained since 1947 by the board of directors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at the University of Chicago.

Scientists from Edinburgh University tried to recreate the lituus in May 2009, when the instrument had been out of use for 300 years.

Scientists at Saint Louis University have used carbon-supported alcohol dehydrogenase with poly ( methylene green ) as an anode, with a nafion membrane, to achieve about 50 μA / cm < sup > 2 </ sup >.

The Secretary of Agriculture appointed a Referee Board of Consulting Scientists, headed by Ira Remsen at Johns Hopkins University to repeat Wiley's human trials of preservatives.

Immune Attack is funded by the National Science Foundation and jointly developed by the Federation of American Scientists, the University of Southern California, Brown University, and Escape Hatch Entertainment.

Scientists in India are protesting a recent guideline issued by the University Grants Commission to ban the use of live animals in universities and laboratories.

Seven ( 7 ) of fifteen ( 15 ) Philippine Presidents have attended courses in the University either as undergraduates or as postgraduate students, while 12 Chief Justices of the Supreme Court, 36 out of the 57 National Artists and 34 out of the 35 National Scientists are affiliated with the University.

In August 2012, Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania announced that they had discovered an enzyme which caused baldness.

Scientists of the Institut of Geodesy and Geoinformationtechnique of the Technical University of Berlin were testing the antique maps of Ptolemy and recognized a pattern of calculation mistakes which occurred if one tried to convert the old coordinates from Ptolemy into modern cartographical maps.

Scientists at the University of St. Andrews have received considerable funding from the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council ( EPSRC ) for an optical sorting machine.

* March 17, 2007 – Scientists from the University of Toronto and the Technical University of Denmark announced plans to install an automated weather station on the island, some time in the summer of 2007.

Scientists at Sheffield University have identified a way of using light to rapidly detect the presence of bacteria.

Scientists at the University of Eastern Piedmont in Italy claimed to have identified hemlock water dropwort ( Oenanthe crocata ) as the plant responsible for producing the sardonic grin.