Sentences with phrase «space physics who»

«Now that we know such large changes occur, we think of hydrogen escape from Mars less as a slow and steady leak and more as an episodic flow — rising and falling with season and perhaps punctuated by strong bursts,» said Michael Chaffin, a scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics who is on the Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph (IUVS) team.

Not exact matches

For those who need the introductions, Melroy is a retired Air Force officer and former NASA astronaut who piloted the space shuttle Discover, Drell is one of the foremost leaders in the field of particle physics, and Malvala is an astrophysicist and member of the team that first detected gravitational waves from colliding black holes.

On the flip side, it is also impossible to disprove the existence of a magical being who can bend the rules of space, time, and physics at will.

According to Russell, it was Whitehead who persuaded him to substitute logical constructions composed of events for the smooth logical properties of mathematical physics, such as points of space, instants of time, and particles of matter.

That's a shame for the man who discovered what might prove to be the key clue to the theory of everything, advanced our understanding of space and time, helped shape the course of physics for the last four decades and whose insight continues to drive progress in fundamental physics today.

Further studies of SN 2009ip and its aftermath will help tease out the physics of these exotic supernovae, says Armin Rest, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Maryland, who was not part of the study team.

Louis Lanzerotti, a physicist at New Jersey Institute of Technology who spent many years at Bell Labs and worked on space missions such as Voyager, Ulysses and Galileo, was a graduate student in nuclear physics at Harvard University when Telstar 1 went into orbit.

Professor Arjun Berera, from the University of Edinburgh's School of Physics and Astronomy, who led the study, said: «The proposition that space dust collisions could propel organisms over enormous distances between planets raises some exciting prospects of how life and the atmospheres of planets originated.

The expense and technical difficulties of aiming X-ray lasers at targets thousands of miles away in outer space had seemed insurmountable, but Dirk Bouwmeester, a former post doc under Penrose who is now a professor of physics at the University of California at Santa Barbara, saw a way to make it feasible.

«I could not believe my eyes when my colleagues emailed the results around,» says Kaspi, who is a professor of physics at McGill and director of the McGill Space Institute.

Prof Mats Holmström, of the Swedish Institute of Space Physics, who will present the first results of the encounter from the Mars Express ASPERA - 3 instrument, says: «Our data and modelling show that the upper layers of the martian atmosphere were disturbed by the passing comet.

Referred to as equatorial noise or «Russell noise,» in tribute to Russell — who is now a professor of space physics and planetary science at UCLA — the waves are among the most frequently observed emissions in the near - Earth space.

* Clarification, 9 June, 11:20 a.m.: The letter to NSF was not an official correspondence from the Space Physics and Aeronomy section of AGU but an expression of concern from individuals who are members of the section.

«It's a consistent story,» said team leader Bruce Jakosky at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics in Boulder, Colorado, who presented the findings at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco in December.

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McComas, who earned a bachelor's degree in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in geophysics and space physics from the University of California - Los Angeles, continues to be engaged in the academic setting.

The impressive cast and a star - studded voice lineup (including John Goodman, Ken Watanabe, and Steve Buscemi as space robots) can't save this thing; the movie even saps the life out of the usually charming Tony Hale, who pops up now and again as a no - nonsense physics genius of the «Um, in English, please?!»

In fact, the overwhelming majority (about 95 percent) of the newly minted STEM majors in each cohort who enter the teaching profession teach in math or science classrooms (i.e., nonelementary and including math, biology / life science, chemistry, geology / earth / space science, physics, computer science, or general science).

It features: — 3D real - time sandbox game built with Unity game engine — metallic shader, lighting, particle effects, lens flare, explosions, fx — space combat RPG with extensive skill tree — open and living universe where 600 + ships fly around autonomously — epic story with dialogue system that allows real choices — recruit 6 wingmen and 2 can fly with you at a time — even discover romance with another wing pilot — recruit 5 corporate pilots who can fly trade routes on your behalf — trade, fight, mine, pirate, scan for derelict ships and wormholes — many mission types: epic, freelance, dynamic, wingman acquisition, faction loyalty — deep combat mechanics, AI, and faction standings — 20 + ships, 180 + modules, 33 solar systems with a unique follow - through - warp mechanic — 15 + factions to vie favor or destroy — cinematic camera shows you the action when it happens — fly manually with or without Newtonian physics or use autopilots exclusively — 22 track theatrical - quality award - winning soundtrack by renown composer, Sean Beeson — cloud save lets you continue your game at home or on the go MEMORY: Dangerous uses a lot of memory during play, so if you have an older device, please close extraneous programs and reboot prior to playing.

Leandro Erlich is known for installations that seem to defy the basic laws of physics and befuddle the viewer, who is introduced into jarring environments that momentarily threaten a sense of balance or space.

Running at the CHELSEA space from 23 April — 31 May 2014, the exhibition challenges viewers to explore relationships between pairs, and reflects how people who are unfamiliar with theoretical physics may respond to such an unusual concept.