Sentences with phrase «space scientist working»

Space scientist working on the Europe - Russia «Mars methane mission» which launched today and - in a separate announcement - is selected again by NASA for Mars Rover «Curiosity» mission

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Before he joined Facebook last summer, Dellaert was the chief scientist at Skydio, a small startup that is working on an unreleased drone that can autonomously track a person while navigating through physical space.

The scientists found a desolate chunk of space surrounding the center of our galaxy that is devoid of young stars, which contradicts recent work done on the region.

Scott Stoltzman Data Scientist • Stoltzman Consulting Founder • Flannelytics Since I began working in a coworking space, I often encounter people who do high - level, interesting stuff that doesn't make sense to my feeble, right - side...

And even scientists such as Vilenkin who co-authored the paper that suggests that this universe being past infinite is unlikely reveals that many assumptions were made (akin to working in a sterile environment), and that their theorem didn't suggest anything beyond the space - time boundary; didn't rule out multi-verse and other theories under consideration.

We have four philosopher - scientists in the Dialogues: Margaret Masterman, developing a new theory of language; Christopher Clarke, a mathematical physicist working out a theory of space; Rupert Sheldrake, who has a hypothesis of «formative causation» as supplementing energetic causation; and Jonathan Westphal, who is working on the philosophical psychology of colour perception.

During Northwell Health's planning phase, they determined the Nassau Hub was not the best location for the CBEM due to the center's needs for specialized space, hospital proximity, and cooperative work environment for scientists and researchers across various medical disciplines.

«Every scientist needs a working environment with adequate space to move around [in] and do experiments without infringing on the work of others,» he says.

Planet Hunters, meanwhile, puts citizen scientists to work analyzing readings from NASA's Kepler space telescope, designed to find Earth - like planets orbiting other stars.

Second, I will work to further support LGBTQ scientists — whether students, early - career, or otherwise — for example by developing safe spaces by initiating diversity - focused conversations during weekly lab meetings and visible signage on my office.

Now, thanks to a $ 107,000 Kickstarter fund and the work of more than 200 scientists, researchers know it's not extraterrestrials, but space dust that's causing the erratic and extreme dips in brightness around Tabby's star.

Her team at the space agency works hand - in - hand with the engineers at MD Robotics, which has a contract to build the instrument, and with project scientists, mainly at York University in Toronto, who will be analyzing the data.

(McNair died in 1986 while working as a scientist - astronaut aboard the space shuttle Challenger.)

«Quantifying the sulfur dioxide bull's - eyes is a two - step process that would not have been possible without two innovations in working with the satellite data,» said co-author Nickolay Krotkov, an atmospheric scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

As Congress develops public policy, I will continue to engage and seek counsel from our world class scientists and technicians working at the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, the Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Institute on Standards and Technology, and other federal agencies.

A couple of years ago, one of my thesis mentors sought visually impaired scientists working at a major space science agency in the United States.

Through this network and work in partnership with other scientific societies, AGU can help to develop programs that will open the door to a new generation of earth and space scientists.

In the new work, scientists from New York City, St. Louis and China found that such spacing is disrupted in mice lacking the Pcdhαc2 gene.

Convened last week in Sydney by the Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research, the event brought together mining companies, robotics experts, lunar scientists and government agencies that are all working to make space mining a reaSpace Engineering Research, the event brought together mining companies, robotics experts, lunar scientists and government agencies that are all working to make space mining a reaspace mining a reality.

To verify dark energy and understand how it works, scientists are trying to peer ever farther out in space and back in time.

«The ionosphere doesn't only react to energy input by solar storms,» said Scott England, a space scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, who works on both the ICON and GOLD missions.

But as she read excited messages from colleagues that a gamma ray burst had also been detected, «I realized this was a breakthrough event,» says Troja, an associate research scientist at the University of Maryland in College Park who works at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt in Maryland.

A shutdown would have broad impacts on federal science programs, including halting granting activity at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), forcing most government scientists to stay home, and delaying work on NASA space missions.

NASA and the scientists who will work with the space instruments hope that the savings will be enough to dissuade the US Congress from cutting them out of the budget altogether.

By visibly contradicting stereotypes about female scientists, it is clear that they hope to inspire girls to pursue science and to encourage female scientists to showcase their femininity in our male - dominated work spaces.

Rutgers University scientist Georgiy Stenchikov worked with Lioy and others to create the most up - to - date air contaminant model, using data about the region's wind, temperature, and humidity to supplement surface and space - based observations.

Proposed in 2001, OIST started operations as a research institute in 2005 with a handful of scientists working in borrowed space, with Brenner serving as president and a board of governors stacked with scientific luminaries, including five Nobel laureates.

Equations worked out decades ago by Russian engineer Yuri Artsutanov and, independently, by American space scientist Jerome Pearson, found that the ideal tether should be tapered, widest at the geosynchronous orbit altitude of 35,800 kilometers, and narrowest at Earth's surface and at its far end.

Although EmDrive propulsion technology has been the target of criticism from academics and armchair scientists alike, if it works, it could significantly speed space travel.

The paper «is a wonderful and gratifying confirmation of what we found several years back,» says planetary scientist and Cassini team member Carolyn Porco of the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado, who worked on the earlier examination of the F ring.

Fazekas talks to Isabelle Tremblay, the systems engineer for the Canadian part of the mission, about what it's like to work in space exploration and what the future may hold for early career space scientists.

Gray had worked for 10 years with Hopkins scientists to implement the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a massive, computer - driven effort to piece together a picture of space one snapshot at a time.

She knew a physicist who did educational outreach (but had just lost his grant, so he couldn't offer me any work), who knew a space scientist (who did no outreach or education at all), who knew a geologist (who occasionally volunteered in the schools), who knew an evolutionary ecologist (who worked for a nonprofit with no money at all), who knew the director of another local nonprofit educational company.

For the first time, scientists working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a new type of lens that bends and focuses ultraviolet (UV) light in such an unusual way that it can create ghostly, 3D images of objects that float in free space.

At the urging of planetary scientist Richard Morris of the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, who works on Spirit's Mössbauer gamma - ray spectrometer, Ruff's group went back to review its data from the Comanche outcrops.

«It is interesting that with Yuri's work, almost a half century later, scientists are finally making the measurements in space that explain the surprising observations made in 1966 and reported in my 1968 thesis,» he said.

Climate Science Day is not a junket for the atmospheric scientist who works as a contract employee at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; it is more like science version of speed — dating.

«Everybody out there working in the cancer space is trying to figure out ways to enhance checkpoint blockade immunotherapy,» said Wenbin Lin, James Franck Professor in Chemistry at UChicago and one of the scientists who conceived the new therapy.

And more broadly speaking, the Copernican principle, as scientists have applied [it] ever since, is that when we are trying to understand how the universe works, it is good to assume that there is nothing special about the Earth and where it sits; that we're not in a particularly privileged space and that's why things work the way that they do.

The work highlights the necessity of consistent long - term data, according to co-author Nick Krotkov, an atmospheric scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, which produces the sulfur dioxide data from the Aura satellite.

According to Reuters and the New York Times, scientists working on the space agency's Cassini mission have discovered that ice plumes on Enceladus contained molecular hydrogen (H2) from hydrothermal vents — the same environment that some researchers believe helped lead to the rise of life here on Earth.

Before joining ALMA, Dr Whyborn worked at the Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON) as Instrument Scientist and System Engineer of the Heterodyne Instrument for the Far - Infrared (HIFI), one of three instruments launched on - board the Herschel space telescope in Space Research (SRON) as Instrument Scientist and System Engineer of the Heterodyne Instrument for the Far - Infrared (HIFI), one of three instruments launched on - board the Herschel space telescope in space telescope in 2009.

Let us start anew with space - based research worthy of a great city, where schools and universities work together, where citizens and communities partner to ensure the success of future generations, where Houstonians lead the charge for students, teachers, parents, scientists and engineers far and wide.

It takes students behind the scenes of actual space missions and introduces them to engineers and scientists working on some of NASA's most exciting projects.

Although we still can't travel to Mars as easily as commuting to work, the very idea of being able to go on a trip to another planet and live there someday has long piqued the interest of scientists and outer space fans alike.

Since 2000, educators, scientists, and engineers work together to share the exciting science of the MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) mission with the public!

Formerly known as the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab is the first - ever «translational» research hospital where clinicians, scientists, innovators and technologists work together in the same space, applying research in real time to physical medicine and rehabilitation.

Working with community members ranging from scientists to engineers, students, and neighbors, she co-creates sculptural ecosystems in urban spaces.

Scientists work to acquire objective answers from the infinity of space or the inner machinery of the atom.

Scientists working with NASA's Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, California, have released the first radar images of asteroid 2004 BL86.