Sentences with phrase «as space scientists»

In 2007, following a post-doctoral Carnegie Fellowship at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Science, she joined NASA as a space scientist.

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«STEM Behind Hollywood» uses the scientists and experts who consult Hollywood filmmakers to create free classroom activities for teachers, including software and iPad apps, to explore popular movie themes such as zombie, superheroes, space and forensics to give students the chance to solve problems as real - life scientists would.

While this is not as exciting a find as the planet covered with oceans of oil that everyone was hoping scientists would find, maybe the promise of untold riches is just the incentive NASA needs to get its space program in gear.

It's not just the big - name corporations that are making a point to engage the next generation of scientists and innovators — Space Angels - funded Because Learning, previously known as Ardusat, has their own ideas for how to engage students in STEM fields.

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.

And when you get right down to it, her description of the science was not really that great either (which is not surprising, considering her experience in the space program was as an engineer, not a scientist), so it's wrong to say there is nothing wrong with her synopsis.

Steven Hawkins like many other scientists see the cosmos as being but a singular constrained universe with an ending even though the vastness of outer space reaches far and away beyond the boundaries of a simple singularized universe!

I was studying at the time when scientists in Britain (such as Stephen Hawking) were developing the first of the space - time theorems.

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.

As New Scientist went to press, the mysterious X-37B plane was preparing to head into space for its fourth trip — and we finally have a clue what it's doing up there.

«Since the impact presented no technical problems for the health and safety of the instrument, the team is only now announcing this event as a fascinating example of how engineering data can be used, in ways not previously anticipated, to understand what is happing to the spacecraft over 236,000 miles (380,000 kilometers) from the Earth,» said John Keller, LRO project scientist from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Instead, Tarlé thinks that scientists can explain the excess positrons by better understanding what happens as cosmic ray particles travel through space.

But just as the felling of a large tree allows young plants to sprout in the newly sunny ground that it formerly shaded, the passing of a major scientist permits new ideas to spring up in the intellectual space she or he once dominated.

Before that, she spent three years at New Scientist as a reporter, covering space, physics and astronomy.

Large space - weather events, such as geomagnetic storms, can alter the incoming radio waves — a distortion that scientists can use to determine the concentration of plasma particles in the upper atmosphere.

The team includes Philip Erickson, principal research scientist at Haystack Observatory, as well as Brian Walsh and David Sibeck at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

As a civilian scientist, he then pursued two M.S. degrees (in space systems and electrical engineering), and a doctorate in aeronautics, astronautics, and propulsion.

Now, he and his team, as well as other scientists, may be able to get a better handle on processes taking place in Earth's atmosphere and nearby space.

A prestigious panel of scientists recommends sending humans to the Red Planet as the space agency's wisest long - range goal

The project, known as HI - SEAS (Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation), put an international team of scientists in a solar - powered dome on the side of a Hawaiian volcano last August.

Garriott, son of Skylab astronaut / scientist Owen Garriott, flew to the ISS as part of Space Adventures, Ltd., a Vienna, Va., company in which he has invested.

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

In fact many scientists regard the planet - hunting space observatory as one of NASA's most successful scientific ventures.

The internal CSA team managing this activity serves as the interface between scientists, engineers, and other government space agencies to ensure the successful delivery of this important payload.

John Baker of NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland told New Scientist: «These help us to build expectations for the observations and to begin planning data analysis strategies for the detectors as well as to help us design future improved simulations.»

«During the Apollo program this nation was in a race, and we perceived the outcome as important to national security,» says Lennard Fisk, former NASA chief scientist and a space science professor at the University of Michigan.

Scientists from the University of New Hampshire and colleagues have published comprehensive findings on space - based radiation as measured by a UNH - led detector aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).

As Chairman of the Science, Space, and Technology Committee I have had the opportunity to hear from widely respected scientists on all sides of this question.

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.

«Our study reports the first global, long - term trends of atmospheric ammonia from space,» said Juying Warner, as associate research scientist in atmospheric and oceanic science at UMD.

In fact, scientists have found increasing evidence of water on numerous moons, planets, and asteroids in recent years — an encouraging trend for those who see the familiar substance as the backbone of a future space - based economy.

But today, space weather scientists are reaping such a windfall, as the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico has released 16 years of radiation measurements recorded by GPS satellites.

He agrees with other scientists who think that the U.S. must begin a series of talks with the European Commission and the European Space Agency as well as with counterparts in India, China and Japan to find a way to develop an international climate observing system.

Until then, scientists regarded black holes as simple objects — quite literally holes in space, completely described by just three variables: their mass, spin and charge.

But an international team of scientists now finds that water flows over the bony carapaces of these fishes much as air does over the space shuttle, creating vortices of water that help guide the fish while swimming in unpredictable waters.

Instead of the relatively stable environment that was expected at the brink of interstellar space, the Voyagers have encountered what some scientists have described as a «magnetic jacuzzi,» a region where the sun's magnetic field appears to be ripping apart and reconnecting, forming bubbles millions of miles across.

Scientists continued the debate as to whether robots or humans should explore space in the first place, and considered how humanity might make money among the stars.

Scientists at NASA and the European Space Agency are revisiting their designs as well.

Women scientists with Ph.D. s are much less likely than men to travel in pursuit of career - enhancing postdoc appointments, according to a survey from Israel's Ministry of Science, Technology and Space, as reported in The Jerusalem Post.

The scientists» findings could help to increase the understanding of the basic properties of granular gases such as soot agglomeration in flue gases on Earth or in astrophysical phenomena such as cosmic dust in planetary rings in space.

Several programs have been initiated to help promote young investigators, such as the Avenir program at INSERM, which provides young scientists who already have a permanent position with fully equipped space within their host department and funding toward research expenses and salaries for nonpermanent staff for up to 5 years.

During that trip around the sun, Geraint Jones, a comet scientist at University College London's Mullard Space Science Laboratory in the UK studied the comet's dust tails to better understand what happened as it rounded the sun.

According to Clark Chapman, a space scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., the odds of our planet encountering one of those bodies in the next century might be as high as 50 percent.

Conservation scientists need to collaborate with space agencies, such as NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), to identify measures which help track biodiversity declines around the wspace agencies, such as NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), to identify measures which help track biodiversity declines around the wSpace Agency (ESA), to identify measures which help track biodiversity declines around the world.

These changes, scientists predict, will be caused by a gravitational wave that stretches and squeezes space - time as it passes through the instruments.

As the Huygens probe prepared to plunge into the atmosphere of Titan, the scientists at the European Space Operations Center in Darmstadt, Germany, kept warning the packed auditorium full of colleagues and journalists to «expect the unexpected.»

Some scientists are turning space telescopes towards the asteroid to continue observing this ever - fainter object as it speeds away, while others are searching along the calculated trajectory to find out where it came from.

This past June scientists at NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi reported that the eyewall's extreme conditions can stir up ocean currents 300 feet below the surface, disrupting sediment and organisms on the seafloor for as long as a week after the storm subsides.

In two papers in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the scientists develop models showing that the stellar wind — the constant outpouring of charged particles that sweep out into space — could severely deplete the atmosphere of such planets over hundreds of millions of years, rendering them unable to host surface - based life as we know it.

While scientists have known about chorus since the 1950s, these new high - quality recordings became known as «the sounds of space» and drew a great deal of interest around the world.