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 the Brazilian National Institute of Amazonian Research argue in the article that this drought response, coupled with the effects of deforestation on regional climate, are pushing the rainforest towards a " tipping point " where it would irreversibly start to die.

* In Oldenburg's Long Shadow: Librarians, Research Scientists, Publishers, and the Control of Scientific Publishing

* Scientists and Research Discussion Groups on Aerobiology

Scientists of the United States National Research Council have taken the position that it should be assumed that microbial life exists in Lake Vostok and that after such a long isolation, any life forms in the lake require strict protection from contamination.

* LBL Scientists Research Global Warming

" Scientists Take on the Publishers in an Experiment to Make Research Free to All " The Guardian, 6 October 2003.

Baltimore is a member of The Jackson Laboratory's Board of Trustees, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists ' Board of Sponsors, the National Academy of Sciences USA ( NAS ), the NAS Institute of Medicine ( IOM ), Amgen, Inc. Board of Directors, the BB Biotech AG Board of Directors, the National Institutes of Health ( NIH ) AIDS Vaccine Research Committee ( AVRC ), and numerous other organizations and their boards.

A detailed account of the various sections of 18 USC 1030 was written by Charles Doyle of the Congressional Research Service, and is available at the Federation of American Scientists website, below, under ' External Links '.

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.

Scientists of the Research Unit Potsdam of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association have decrypted a mechanism in which a shrinking summertime sea ice cover changes the air pressure zones in the Arctic atmosphere and impacts on European winter weather.

* Scientists from the Center for Research and Advanced Studies ( CINVESTAV ) will attempt to extract DNA from bones discovered at the Universidad del Claustro, Mexico City in 1978.

Scientists at the US Agricultural Research Service also have been able to infect phorid flies with Kneallhazia solenopsae, a spore-producing insect pathogen, to control the population of red imported fire ants.

Scientists who have set their individual research focus use in parts the platforms and networks that were established for Collaborative Research Centers.

Scientists from the National Research Institute for Cultural Properties in Tokyo ( Japan ), the Centre of Research and Restoration of the French Museums-CNRS ( France ), the Getty Conservation Institute ( United States ) and the ESRF ( the European Synchrotron radiation facility ) in Grenoble analysed samples from the paintings, typically less than 1 mm across.

* Thomson Honours Leading Indian Scientists Five people receive the " Thomson Citation Laureate Award ", including physics professor Ashoke Sen of the Harish-Chandra Research Institute.

Scientists from the Institute of Materials Science and Engineering ( WKK ) of University of Kaiserslautern, with the support from the German Research Foundation ( Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft ), have succeeded in proving that using ultrasonic welding processes can lead to highly durable bonds between light metals and Carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer ( CFRP ) sheets.

Scientists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute using the submarine ROV Tiburon first discovered the genus in Monterey Bay, California, in February 2002.

NSIDC scientists participate in International Union of Geophysics and Geodetics ( IUGG ), International Association of Cryospheric Scientists ( IACS ), and in activities of the International Permafrost Association ( IPA ), the Global Digital Sea Ice Data Bank ( GDSIDB ), and the World Climate Research Programme ( WCRP ), including Climate and Cryosphere ( CliC ), Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment ( GEWEX ), the Global Climate Observing System ( GCOS ), and the Global Earth Observation System of Systems ( GEOSS ).

Among its over 3, 579 staff members, there are four members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering, five scientists-in-chief of 973 ( The National Basic Research Program ) in China, 13 Cheung Kong Scholar Program professors, 11 national excellent scholars, 13 gainers of the Fund of National Outstanding Young Scientists, 11 gainers of the Fund of National Excellent Young Teacher, over 1, 000 professors and associate professors.

* Federation of American Scientists Case Studies in Dual-Use Research

Scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research ( NCAR ) also developed a computer model of solar dynamics ( Solar dynamo ) for more accurate predictions and have confidence in the forecast based upon a series of test runs with the newly developed model simulating the strength of the past eight solar cycles with more than 98 % accuracy.

He is a member of the Board of Sponsors of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and Past President of Cambridge Society for the Application of Research.