Sentences with phrase «ago as it probed»

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ALBANY — While Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been downplaying his relationship with Todd Howe, a lobbyist at the center of a federal probe of his administration, records show that Howe was steering developers to contribute to the Cuomo campaign as recently as five months ago.

A quarter century ago as Niagara County clerk, his election committee pleaded guilty for failure to list the true identity of a campaign contributor discovered by federal and state investigators probing alleged corruption in the county.

The probe from DeLong and Hinrichs, on the other hand, had worked right away: The Hydrate Ridge sediments were loaded with their methane eater, which is not a bacterium at all but a species of Archaea, an ancient group of microbes that diverged from bacteria billions of years ago and are as distinct from them now, genetically speaking, as humans are.

Even as advances in ancient - DNA technology have made it possible to probe population mixing and large - scale migrations that occurred thousands of years ago, researchers have had trouble studying the genetic history of the Near East because the region's warm climate has degraded much of the DNA in unearthed bones.

The CMB can be used to probe the cosmos via something known as the Sunyaev - Zel «dovich (SZ) effect, which was first observed over 30 years ago.

The probe was prompted in part by reports in the Los Angeles Times and the online publication Inside Climate News, alleging that Exxon researchers expressed concerned about climate change from fossil fuel emissions decades ago, even as the company publicly raised doubts about whether climate - change was scientifically valid.

As an example, over a year ago we did a test with a probe taking electrical traces inside a running thruster, to confirm plasma parameters that we had been using in modelling for 10 years to predict lifetime.