Sentences with phrase «nuclear physics placed»

To investigate, geochemist Frank Keppler and his colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics placed a variety of plants in test chambers and filled the rooms with methane - free air.

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In particular, it wisely asked people to shelter in place before evacuating potentially dangerous areas, says Kathryn Higley, head of the Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics department at Oregon State University.

A much better way to prevent a nuclear or dirty - bomb terrorist attack is to keep radioactive ingredients from getting inside the nation's borders in the first place, and here physics is on our side.

Without them, we would have no understanding of the physics that governs the tides, waves breaking on the beach, the ever - changing weather, the movements of the planets, the nuclear furnaces of the stars, the spirals of galaxies — the vastness of the universe and our place within it.

It connects more than 2,500 researchers around the world with the data generated by millions of particle collisions taking place each second at Brookhaven Lab's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC, a DOE Office of Science User Facility for nuclear physics research), and the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in Europe.

To illustrate this, could you imagine if during the effort to convince the U.S. government to embark on the Manhattan Project, the word «physics» was hardly ever used by the advocates of atom bomb development (who were simply known in this alternate reality as «nuclear * scientists *»), to such an extent that many well - placed non-physicists didn't even realize that the claims of destructive power were based on it?

As a physicist, I winced when I read «This is because energy can not just be created or destroyed (unless it involves nuclear reactions or takes place on quantum physics scales).»