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

Scientists from the Centre visit schools who are unable to organise a trip to the Centre or do not otherwise have access to laboratories or science equipment, sometimes in impoverished or extremely rural areas.

Scientists often turn out to be idiosyncratic, too.

Scientists and educators feared that by singling out biological evolution as very controversial, the amendment could create the impression that a substantial scientific controversy about evolution exists, leading to a lessening of academic rigor in science curricula.

Scientists then set out to introduce a hypovirus into the chestnut blight fungus.

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

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.

Chris Cain from We Are Scientists said in an interview " We actually recorded a single Ash which is going to come out soon.

Scientists started looking for the bacteria when they noticed bubbles of methane coming out of the tar pits.

Scientists later looked back to the hours before the eruption and noticed that several long-period earthquakes, which start out strong and then slowly die out, had occurred in the final hours before the eruption.

The same year, Francesca Grifo, executive director of the Union of Concerned Scientists ' Scientific Integrity Program, stated " We have reports that stay in draft form and don't get out to the public.

" The Union of Concerned Scientists sent a letter to the group just prior to its meeting pointing out that its climate change position runs counter to that of every major scientific organization, and urged it to support action on climate on change.

In 2007, the Union of Concerned Scientists received a four ( out of four ) star rating from Charity Navigator.

Scientists hypothesize that sufficient volcanic interaction with the lake's bottom water that has high gas concentrations would heat water, force the methane out of the water, spark a methane explosion, and trigger a nearly simultaneous release of carbon dioxide.

Scientists also found the beginning section of the original Sanskrit Pratītyasamutpāda Sutra translated by Xuanzang that spelled out the basic belief of Buddhism and said all things are transient.

Scientists at the time assumed the clouds were another manifestation of volcanic ash, but after the ash had settled out of the atmosphere, the noctilucent clouds persisted.

Scientists presume that supernova explosions caused this interstellar dust to be thrown out of the galactic disk toward the halo.

** The Scientists ( Coming out of " The Invaders ")

Scientists at IUCAA carry out research in a wide range of areas in astronomy, astrophysics and physics.

Scientists believe the water blocks out the sun's longer wavelengths which the worms avoid, and the freezing water provides the worms with comfortable temperature.

Scientists have also subsequently pointed out that global climate change may have also played a complementary role.

Scientists theorize that the star was ejected out of a binary star system approximately 80 million years ago when it encountered a black hole in the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

Scientists first cataloged this species because the virulent and aggressive tendencies were so pronounced that they immediately struck out at every type of active or passive probe directed at them.