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Some scientists hypothesize that overexposure to UV, including excessive sunlight, may play a role in the formation of acquired moles.

Climate scientists such as James E. Hansen hypothesize that methane clathrates in the permafrost regions will be released as a result of global warming, unleashing powerful feedback forces which may cause runaway climate change that cannot be controlled.

Researchers have concluded that " Because these neurons are a pivotal source of norepinephrine throughout the brainstem and forebrain and are involved in the regulation of diverse functions disrupted in Rett syndrome, such as respiration and cognition, we hypothesize that the locus coeruleus is a critical site at which loss of MECP2 results in CNS dysfunction.

Ritz et al., in Biophysical Journal, hypothesize that transduction of the Earth's geomagnetic field is responsible for the magnetoreception systems of birds.

In contrast, an extreme behaviorist linguist would argue that language can only be studied through recordings or transcriptions of actual speech, the role of the linguist being to look for patterns in such observed speech, but not to hypothesize about why such patterns might occur, nor to label particular utterances as either " grammatical " or " ungrammatical.

Lomonosov was the first person to hypothesize the existence of an atmosphere on Venus based on his observation of the transit of Venus of 1761 in a small observatory near his house in Petersburg.

A Chinese record states that 10, 000 people were killed in Shanxi Province in 1490 by a hail of " falling stones "; some astronomers hypothesize that this may describe the breakup of a large asteroid, although they find the number of deaths implausible.

Until this ship model was discovered, archaeologists, classicists, and historians had only been able to hypothesize on what the seating arrangement might have been like on a hemiolia based on its name.

Researchers hypothesize that the anomaly may be caused by a thinning of Earth's crust in that location.

In India, Wasson identified Psilocybe cubenis as " easily identified and gathered, and are effective ", and went so far as to hypothesize, " the possible role of Stropharia cubensis Psilocybe cubensis growing in the dung of cattle in the lives of the lower orders remains to this day wholly unexplored.

The demands of the plot required Asimov to hypothesize a planetary system about a star named Nemesis.

Others hypothesize that the name comes from " tu-wanda ", the Goshute word for " bear ", or from " tule ", a Spanish word of Aztec origin, meaning " bulrush ".

The earliest person to hypothesize climate change may have been the medieval Chinese scientist Shen Kuo ( 1031 – 1095 ).

Hodgkin and Huxley's findings led the pair to hypothesize the existence of ion channels, which were isolated only decades later.

We hypothesize that in everyday life consciousness is in a continual state of flux between the general reality orientation and the momentary microdynamics of trance ...

Subsequent observations revealed substantial deviations from the tables, leading Bouvard to hypothesize some perturbing body.

Bainton and others hypothesize that the Ourang Medan might have been involved in smuggling operations of chemical substances such as a combination of potassium cyanide and nitroglycerin or even wartime stocks of nerve agents.

Small volumes do not result in readily detectable symptoms, but ongoing studies hypothesize that these " micro-bubbles " may have some adverse effects.

This discovery led him to hypothesize that Old Japanese had eight vowels, while modern Japanese has only five.

With the addition of the displacement current, Maxwell was able to hypothesize ( correctly ) that light was a form of electromagnetic wave.

Researchers hypothesize that loud snoring creates turbulence in carotid artery blood flow closest to the airway.

* Extreme event: hypothesize the portfolio's return given a catastrophic event, often the recurrence of a historical event.

Scientists hypothesize that some of the first water brought to Earth was delivered by asteroid impacts after the collision that produced the Moon.

The lake has no current outlet, but some hydrologists hypothesize that, deep underground, lake water filters into the Chu River.

This latter foraging strategy led some to hypothesize that this warbler specialized in foraging among dead leaves in canebreakers.