Sentences with phrase «national radio science»

The next National Radio Science Meeting (NRSM) will be held January 4 - 7, 2018 (Thursday - Sunday) in Boulder, Colorado.

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Judging the entries were Bob Goldman of Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, Robert Krulwich, science correspondent for National Public Radio, Dave Mosher, science and technology correspondent for Business Insider, and Clare Waterman, of the Laboratory of Cell and Tissue Morphodynamics at the National Institute of Health.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is in the process of transforming its Very Large Array radio telescope into the — wait for it — Expanded Very Large Array, thanks to digital technology that will boost the Socorro, N.M., facility's already impressive ability to tune in on black holes, supernovae and the rest of the deep space menagerie.

In science news around the world, the National Institutes of Health expands the definition of clinical trials, the U.S. Department of Agriculture restores previously public animal welfare records, seismologists fear the loss of a key research vessel, Brazil's indigenous tribes win land rights, and China's — and the world's — largest radio telescope gets a no - fly zone.

Using the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), an interlinked system of 10 radio telescopes stretching across Hawaii, North America and the Caribbean, the astronomers have directly measured the distance to an object called G007.47 +00.05, a star - forming region located on the opposite side of the galaxy from our solar system.

This new image of GK Persei contains X-rays from Chandra (blue), optical data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (yellow), and radio data from the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (pink).

She's won a number of national awards for her radio documentaries, including the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award, and is the co-host of the food science podcast GasScience Journalism Award, and is the co-host of the food science podcast Gasscience podcast Gastropod.

Climate scientists chosen to participate in public - engagement training at the first - ever AAAS Leshner Leadership Institute (LLI) spoke with reporters from National Public Radio, ClimateWire, and Science, and they took part in a Reddit «Ask Me Anything» session that generated more than 3,000 «upvotes» from online followers.

Science journalists in Australia are generally professional, well educated and unlikely to distort research to gain attention, John Henningham of the University of Queensland has concluded on the basis of a national survey of journalists working in newspapers, news magazines, radio and television.

Other members of the team are the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, a facility of the National Science Foundation operated under a cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc.; West Virginia University; McGill University in Montreal, Canada; and the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy.

A consortium led by the University of Central Florida (UCF) in Orlando will take over management of the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, home to one of the world's largest radio telescopes, the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Alexandria, Virginia, announced today.

«One of the primary science goals of ALMA is the detection and detailed study of galaxies throughout cosmic time,» said Chris Carilli, an astronomer with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Socorro, New Mexico.

In 2010 the National Science Foundation teamed up with the University of Michigan to create the first CubeSat with any scientific purpose: studying the effect of space weather on radio transmissions or GPS.

Teams in the United States, Europe, and Australia hope to see a signal within 2 or 3 years — although the U.S. effort is threatened by plans at the National Science Foundation to defund the two radio telescopes it uses.

The science team, led by chemist Brett McGuire at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Charlottesville, Virginia, detected this molecule's telltale radio signature coming from a nearby star - forming nebula known as the Taurus Molecular Cloud 1 (TCM - 1), which is about 430 light - years from ERadio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Charlottesville, Virginia, detected this molecule's telltale radio signature coming from a nearby star - forming nebula known as the Taurus Molecular Cloud 1 (TCM - 1), which is about 430 light - years from Eradio signature coming from a nearby star - forming nebula known as the Taurus Molecular Cloud 1 (TCM - 1), which is about 430 light - years from Earth.

The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a facility of the National Science Foundation, operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc..

Ira Flatow is the host of National Public Radio's Science Friday, an in - depth talk show that reaches radio and Internet listeners with discussions on science, technology, health, space, and the environRadio's Science Friday, an in - depth talk show that reaches radio and Internet listeners with discussions on science, technology, health, space, and the envirScience Friday, an in - depth talk show that reaches radio and Internet listeners with discussions on science, technology, health, space, and the environradio and Internet listeners with discussions on science, technology, health, space, and the envirscience, technology, health, space, and the environment.

National Public Radio reports that Republican senator Scott Wagner told constituents in Pennsylvania «I haven't been in a science class in a long time» — at which point any sensible politician would have stopped talking — «but the Earth moves closer to the sun every year, you know, the rotation of the Earth.»

It was first identified as a millisecond radio pulsar in 2005 with the National Science Foundation's Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) and then later rediscovered as an X-ray pulsar by another team of astronomers in 2013.

Today's shutdown of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), a National Science Foundation - funded organization that runs the radio telescopes, threatens that accuRadio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), a National Science Foundation - funded organization that runs the radio telescopes, threatens that accuradio telescopes, threatens that accuracy.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has decided to award a 5 - year contract for the facility, home to the largest radio telescope in the world, to a consortium comprising SRI International, the Universities Space Research Association, Universidad Metropolitana, and other institutions.

One year after a controversial recommendation to cancel its National Science Foundation (NSF) funding, the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, the world's largest fully steerable radio telescope, is searching for new partners to help support its $ 10 - million annual operating costs.

Previous winners of the Public Service Award for a group include National Public Radio's Science Desk, The Exploratorium, and the television drama, NUMB3RS.

«The opportunity for these projects to use significant time on the world's best scientific instruments is occurring in part because of the limitations in government funding for these facilities,» Worden says, noting that flat or shrinking NASA and National Science Foundation budgets for astronomy have left the Parkes and Green Bank radio telescopes — as well as many other observatories — scrambling for new sources of financial support.

Valerie Thompson was a 2012 — 14 Executive Branch Fellow at the National Science Foundation (NSF) during which she contributed to many communications activities including the Brain Power website, «FutureWork» radio documentary, and the DC Mini Maker Faire.

Observations of two galaxies made with the National Science Foundation - funded Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) radio telescope suggest that large galaxies formed faster than scientists had previously thought.

On November 16, the National Science Foundation, which funds the bulk of the observatory's operating costs, announced that they would continue funding the radio telescope at a reduced level.

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Thus were established, after World War II, the NOAO and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)-- also among the first National Science Foundation (NSF) entities to be federally funded — with the aim of giving all U.S. astronomers access to top facilities.6 These observatories quickly adopted a so - called open skies policy (OSP), which guaranteed any researcher, U.S. or international, equal and free access to the federally funded NOAO / NRAO telescopes.

The repeating bursts from this object, named FRB 121102 after the date of the initial burst, allowed astronomers to watch for it using the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), a multi-antenna radio telescope system with the resolving power, or ability to see fine detail, needed to precisely determine the object's location in the sky.

«This impressive result shows the power of several telescopes working in concert — first detecting the radio burst and then precisely locating and beginning to characterize the emitting source,» said Phil Puxley, a program director at the National Science Foundation that funds the VLA, VLBA, Gemini and Arecibo observatories.

The VLBA is an instrument of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, a facility of the National Science Foundation, operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc..

Astronomers using the super-sharp radio vision of the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) have found the shredded remains of a galaxy that passed through a larger galaxy, leaving only the smaller galaxy's nearly - naked supermassive black hole to emerge and speed away at more than 2,000 miles per second.

Using the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) of radio telescopes, an international team of astronomers from the United States and Taiwan studied the area generally thought to mark the Galactic center.

Rachael's research has also been featured in the popular media such as Nature (commentary), Audubon magazine, National Wildlife magazine, Science News, The Scientist, and National Public Radio (NPR).

A group of summer students making a long - shot astronomical gamble with the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Very Large Array (VLA) have found the first radio emission ever detected from a brown dwarf, an enigmatic object that is neither a star nor a planet, but something in between.

Astronomers using a world - wide collection of radio telescopes, including the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), have made a dramatic «movie» of a voracious, superdense neutron star repeatedly spitting out subatomic particles at nearly the speed of light into two narrow jets as it pulls material from a companion radio telescopes, including the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), have made a dramatic «movie» of a voracious, superdense neutron star repeatedly spitting out subatomic particles at nearly the speed of light into two narrow jets as it pulls material from a companion Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), have made a dramatic «movie» of a voracious, superdense neutron star repeatedly spitting out subatomic particles at nearly the speed of light into two narrow jets as it pulls material from a companion star.

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) have overcome longstanding technical hurdles to map the sky at little - explored radio frequencies that may provide a tantalizing look deep into the early Universe.

Radio telescopes, including major facilities of the National Science Foundation's National Radio Astronomy Observatory, have provided data needed to measure the winds encountered by the Huygens spacecraft as it descended through the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan last month — measurements feared lost because of a communication error between Huygens and its mother ship Cassini.

The Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz (FHNW) invites applications for a postdoctoral research position in Heliophysics to work on the project «A new perspective on particle acceleration on the Sun: Solar Flare radio observations with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array», funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

The astrophysicists used the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope to capture the faintest details yet seen in the plasma jets emerging from the microquasar SS 433, an object once dubbed the «enigma of the century.»

The scientists used the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), a continent - wide radio - telescope system, along with the 100 - meter radio telescope in Effelsberg, Germany, to make an extremely precise observation when the planet Jupiter passed nearly in front of a bright quasar on September 8, 2002.

Giacconi was President of AUI from 1999 to 2004, managing the world - class National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), an astronomical research facility of the National Science Foundation.

The old real - estate adage about what's really important proved applicable to astrophysics as astronomers used the sharp radio «vision» of the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) to pinpoint the distance to a pulsar.

The three newly - discovered radio - emitting brown dwarfs were found as part of a systematic study of nearby brown dwarfs using the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope.

Using the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope, the scientists found a huge quantity of dense interstellar gas — the environment required for active star formation — at the greatest distance yet detected.

About the National Radio Astronomy Observatory The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) is a facility of the National Science Foundation, operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc..

Athol Kemball and Philip Diamond, of the NRAO in Socorro, NM, observed the star TX Camelopardalis (TX Cam) with the VLBA, a National Science Foundation radio telescope system that allowed them to observe unprecedented detail in the star's atmosphere.

The scientists used the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope in New Mexico and the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) in the Netherlands to produce an image of the galaxy M33, known to amateur astronomers as the Pinwheel Garadio telescope in New Mexico and the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) in the Netherlands to produce an image of the galaxy M33, known to amateur astronomers as the Pinwheel GaRadio Telescope (WSRT) in the Netherlands to produce an image of the galaxy M33, known to amateur astronomers as the Pinwheel Galaxy.

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope have found a pulsar — a spinning, superdense neutron star — that apparently is considerably younger than previously thought.