Beyond inventions that revolutionized daily life, Bell
Lab scientists made fundamental discoveries — such as the wave nature of matter and the microwave background radiation from the big bang — earning six Nobel Prizes including the one shared in 1997 by Secretary Chu for a method of trapping atoms with lasers.
Not exact matches
To fill the need for silk in the future,
scientists are capable of
making the proteins in a
lab, but sometimes mother nature does it best.
I mean, isn't a
scientist «playing god» as it were by creating life out of nothing and if this «abomination» is
made in the
lab and not in a womb, does it count as even human?
Made from seaweed, agar is the same stuff
scientists use in the bio
lab for petri dishes.
Processed foods that we're against are foods that you could not
make without the help of
scientists and
lab equipment.
«The kilometre of rock above the
lab filters out cosmic rays,
making it one of the few radioactively quiet places accessible to
scientists in the world.»
Inspired by Polish
scientist Marie Curie and other famous
scientists, this chandelier is
made from real
lab test tubes.
I put off
making a decision by taking a research
scientist position in the
lab of a new PI so that I could see the job up close, with all its benefits and struggles.
The
scientists believe that because they included eight mutations in their
lab -
made viral strain, it is unlikely the virus will revert back to its original, more dangerous form (a common concern with any live - virus vaccine).
A young
scientist doing a postdoc in his Ph.D.
lab is wondering whether he should
make a move and, if so, whether it should be to another postdoc position or a more independent one.
Scientists have
made a key discovery that could speed up the production of cells in the
lab for studying diseases such as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease.
Harshman said that whereas a biologist might be offered $ 35,000 a year at one laboratory, a photonics
scientist in a different
lab might
make $ 61,000 a year.
It also proved useful for
making contacts: I eventually applied to do graduate studies in plant physiology at Queen's University, in the
lab of a
scientist with whom I had worked the previous summer.
«This work was driven by talented
scientists in the
lab: graduate students Lian He and Peng Tan and postdoctoral research fellow Guolin Ma, Ph.D.,» Zhou said, «who fearlessly undertook this daunting project and overcame all the challenging obstacles to
make this technique into reality.»
Petrovic says the team is
making it possible for
scientists to virtually explore reefs in the
lab, allowing them to time - travel from year to year and track the growth and decline of individual colonies, and to study spatial and temporal relationships across the reef.
It should also
make the
lab more attractive to bright young
scientists.
Many young
scientists feel split between their Ph.D. obligations —
making revisions, cleaning their
lab space, or writing those last few papers — and their new job.
The Yahoo!
Labs scientist and author explains why the «law of the few» is bunk, why history is full of failed hedgehogs, and why we can't
make good predictions about just those things we most want to predict
As equipment makers and service providers try to
make single - cell sequencing accessible to more
labs,
scientists at the forefront of the field are pushing the technique into entirely new territory.
The price of synthesis is dropping, too, which
makes the idea of citizen
scientists doing synthetic biology in home
labs more feasible.
New
Scientist magazine reports that Jet Propulsion
Lab researcher Adrian Stoica told a meeting in England last month that gait analysis from satellites should
make it possible to identify people by their walk and because of the angle of the satellite you have a better chance of getting the image of the shadow than of the actual walk.
There was a time when the only choice
scientists needed to
make about their
lab notebooks was whether to use a blue pen or a black one.
Figaro, a Goffin's cockatoo (Cacatua goffini) housed at a research
lab in Austria, stunned
scientists a few years ago when he began spontaneously
making stick tools from the wooden beams of his aviary.
Through decisions
made haphazardly 60 years ago, «we chose as a country to staff our
labs primarily with graduate students and postdocs and a few non-tenured staff people, while other countries have permanent ways of staffing their
labs,» often with PhD staff
scientists in career positions, says Georgia State University economist Paula Stephan, an authority on the academic labor force.
Some researchers test AI systems like
scientists test
lab rats, tinkering with the inputs to see how they affect behavior in hopes of illuminating the decision -
making process.
Scientists can already
make mammal eggs stand in for sperm in a
lab.
Base pairs that exist only in the
lab, rearranged chromosomes, even entire synthetic genomes — all have been
made by
scientists in recent years.
«If we want to
make an impact in the cognitive systems era, we need to understand how the brain works,» said Matthias Kaiserswerth, a computer
scientist who's director of IBM Research in Zurich, speaking during a media tour of the
labs on Wednesday.
For her debut article for Science Careers, Laura S. Malisheski talked to 11
scientists who work part - time or have otherwise
made adjustments to their schedules to be in the
lab less and at home more.
These jobs are ideal for
scientists who are tired of the
lab and itching to
make a difference in people's lives.
To
make sure experimenters can get the most out of a major X-ray laser upgrade that will produce beams that are 10,000 times brighter and pulses up to a million times per second, the
lab has created a new position — head of experimental design at the Linac Coherent Light Source — and hired an X-ray
scientist to fill it.
The team has
made all the information needed to create this system freely available, so that plant
scientists in other
labs can use ACME in their own research.
When
scientists setup an artificial ecosystem in the
lab, complete with ladybugs, parasites, and lacewings, insects that like to
make a meal of wasp cocoons, they found that when the cocoons were between the legs of a living ladybug, only 35 % were killed by predators, compared with 85 % if the cocoon was attached to a dead ladybug, and nearly 100 % if it was free from any ladybug.
In any laboratory, a good
lab notebook
makes the data completely clear and provides enough information about your experimental technique to allow another trained
scientist to reproduce your work, even years from now.
Scientists need evidence from both
lab - raised and wild - caught mosquitoes to
make the case that a given species is helping spread the virus.
To
make matters more complicated, several
scientists, including Drosten, say the central conclusion of the NEJM paper — that the MERS virus jumped from a camel to a human at a Saudi farm — is flawed and most likely the result of
lab contamination.
Rotwang's shock of unruly hair, white
lab coat, and maniacal eyes
made him the prototype for the mad movie
scientist, while his black - gloved prosthetic hand became a motif used in many films, most notably in...
His own situation illustrates why it doesn't
make sense to push older
scientists out of the
lab en masse, he adds.
Such a material — a photovoltaic glass that is also reversibly thermochromic — is a green technology researchers have long worked toward, and now,
scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley
Lab) have demonstrated a way to
make it work.
«Our research adds weight to the idea that effective antifungal drugs can target even those mitochondrial proteins that are highly conserved in humans and fungi, and that this could be a way to
make a broad spectrum antifungal combination therapy that would be less susceptible to resistance,» says Benjamin Vincent, a former graduate student in Whitehead Member Susan Lindquist's
lab who is now a
scientist at Yumanity Therapeutics.
Even though you won't find me in the
lab any more, the successful introduction of my own product
makes me feel just as excited as a
scientist after a great discovery.
Along with
scientists and engineers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories, the Berkeley
Lab crew
made up the so - called «
Lab Team,» called in by state officials for their expertise in well integrity and well - flow modeling.
The findings were
made by an international team of researchers led by Ms Caitlin Gionfriddo and Dr John Moreau from the University of Melbourne, and also included
scientists from the Centre for Systems Genomics at the University of Melbourne, the US Geological Survey and Lawrence Livermore National
Lab.
«Poor cementation will
make reefs softer and therefore more vulnerable to erosion,» says senior marine
scientist Richard Aronson at the Dauphin Island Sea
Lab in Alabama, who was not involved in the research.
The growing level of teamwork in metabolomics
makes these features crucial to
scientists collaborating internationally, because they seek consistency in NMR data coming out of different
labs.
The anthrax scare at a US
lab is unlikely to
make anyone ill, but it suggests we should be very careful about
scientists creating highly dangerous pathogens
The new resist effectively combines the material properties of two pre-existing kinds of resist, achieving the characteristics needed to
make smaller features for microprocessors, which include better light sensitivity and mechanical stability, says Paul Ashby, staff
scientist at Berkeley
Lab's Molecular Foundry, a DOE Office of Science user facility.
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley
Lab), who have
made important findings on the dangers of thirdhand smoke and how it adsorbs strongly onto indoor surfaces, have published a new study assessing the health effects of thirdhand smoke constituents present in indoor air.
Other
scientists at Bell
Labs have
made scientific breakthroughs leading to advances such as the invention of the transistor, Chu said.
Exposure to the main ingredient of polycarbonate plastics can modify brain formation in female mouse fetuses and
make the
lab animals, later in life, display a typically male behavior pattern,
scientists have announced.