Sentences with phrase «scientists first spotted»

Scientists first spotted them in the 1930s, but they didn't suspect they were involved in how deeply people sleep.

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That same year, Shockley and seven other scientists founded Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, the «first silicon device and research manufacturing company in Silicon Valley,» as a plaque marking the spot in Mountain View reads today.

Ever since hikers first spotted the remains of Ötzi the Iceman, as he is known, emerging from the melting ice in the Ötztal Alps near the Austrian - Italian border in 1991, scientists have been working to determine how he died and what he was doing in such a remote spot.

«When Greg first spotted the worms gliding through a clam field in Monterey Bay, we jokingly called them purple socks,» said MBARI scientist Robert Vrijenhoek, a co-author of the study who led the deep - sea expeditions using remotely operated vehicles.

In a related study, published in Cretaceous Research, OSU scientists announced the first fossil record of Rickettsial - like cells, a bacteria that can cause various types of spotted fever.

During the first three days, scientists spotted several vaquitas using visual search methods and acoustic monitoring.

The star got too close to its galaxy's central black hole about 290 million years ago, and collisions among its torn - apart pieces caused an eruption of optical, ultraviolet and X-ray light that was first spotted by scientists in 2014.

A continent - sized sunspot vanished within an hour of a solar flare earlier this year, marking the first time scientists have seen a spot fade so quickly.

In 1982, Daniel Shechtman, an Israeli materials scientist, was first to spot a new type of irregular crystal, known as a quasicrystal.

The vast fountains of icy material erupting from Enceladus's south pole enthralled planetary scientists when they were first spotted in images returned by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in 2005.

Sex researcher Beverly Whipple of Rutgers University, one of the first scientists to discuss the G - spot, believes the word dysfunction should be dropped from the sexual lexicon and that surgeries to alter sexual pleasure or aesthetics should be dropped from medical practice.

Scientists spot their first interstellar asteroid, Oumuamua: In October, astronomers spotted an object flying through the solar system on such a strange path that it was immediately clear it had come from a different neighborhood.

Charon, first spotted in 1978, is so bulky compared with its parent — about one - tenth the mass of Pluto — that scientists regard the Pluto - Charon system as a double planet.

You might remember that back in February, a consortium of more than 1,000 scientists from various countries announced that they had finally spotted the first tangible evidence of the existence of gravitational waves.

Recent images show numerous craters and unusual bright spots that scientists believe tell how Ceres, the first object discovered in our solar system's asteroid belt, formed and whether its surface is changing.

Using an integrative approach that combined electron microscopy on the Env trimer complex with PGT151 (led by the Ward lab) with the structure of the PGT151 Fab by x-ray crystallography (led by the Wilson lab), the scientists were able to visualize the location of the PGT151 - series binding site on the Env trimer — which includes a spot on one gp41 protein with two associated sugars (glycans), a patch on the gp120 protein and even a piece of the adjacent gp41 within the trimer structure — «a very complex epitope,» said Claudia Blattner, a research associate in the Wilson laboratory at TSRI and member of the IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center who, along with graduate student Jeong Hyun Lee, was a first author of the second paper.

An international team of scientists sequenced the genome of the California two - spot octopus — the first cephalopod ever to be fully sequenced — and mapped gene expression profiles in 12 different tissues.

The G - spot gets its name from one of the first doctors to describe it in medical literature, Ernst Gräfenberg — a German physician and scientist who also studied women's orgasms and developed an early version of today's intrauterine device (IUD).

In the interim, this news has spread across Belize like wildfire, so even if scientists don't spot the whale first, Belizeans and tourists surely will.

That was why climate scientists constructed the «tropical hot spot» in the first place, wasn't it.

The scientists made on - the - spot measurements of 100,000 vehicles as they drove past air - sampling probes (including a for the first time a proton transfer reaction time - of - flight mass spectrometer; it provided the time resolution required for the plume capture technique used in the study) on College Street, one of Toronto's many major roadways.