Sentences with phrase «black scientists in»

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As they walked, the two of them — Ibex's director and chief data scientist — were on the phone with a client and in passing mentioned rare, so - called black - swan events.

Because LIGO was able to detect two of these gravitational wave events within its first few months of running, scientists are confident that these sorts of black hole collisions are actually pretty common in our neighborhood.

Luckily for me, I was living in Stanford's Ujamaa dorm — the de facto home of Stanford's Society of Black Scientist and Engineers (SBSE).

Stephen Hawking, the famed theoretical physicist whose work greatly contributed to scientists» understanding of black holes and cosmology, has died, his family said in a...

The Black Church in the African American Experience by C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence H. Mamiya Duke University Press, 519 pages, $ 47.50 When we cut through the many good reasons that lead social scientists to study religion, we find ourselves in the end confronting questions about politics.

This is understandably something that can seem a bit strange to those who have not been educated in fields of science and advanced biology, and it is also why people who are not scientists ought not try to explain the processes in simple black - and - white terms.

I suspected when I first heard this claim that the Committee on the Status of Black Americans, loaded as it was with social scientists, had demolished a straw man, a bloodless construct so rigidly defined as to be meaningless in terms of the actual lives of the humans who inhabit the nation's ghettos and who, for the most part, make up what has come to be called the underclass.

In previous research I have found that it regularly gives distinctively different value profiles for men and women, whites and blacks, hippies and non-hippies, artists and businessmen, scientists and policemen, and pro- and anti-Wallace groups.

With a mixture of correctness and informality sometimes found in England today, a cleric - scientist of the period is recorded to have met his guests in «an old russet cloth - cassock that had been black in dayes of yore, girt with an old leather girdle, an old fashion russett hat that had been a bever tempore Reginae Elizabethae.»

Outside of the beer world, Black Cow uses whey to produce its vodka while last year, scientists in Singapore developed a new «sake - like» alcoholic beverage from the bi-products of tofu called sachi.

He planned to put his education at their service in the spirit of Iowa State's famous black alumnus, the scientist, botanist and inventor George Washington Carver.

Regardless of how scientists follow up this discovery, one way or another the result will be «pinning down the number of black holes in the center of a normal galaxy like the Milky Way,» Hailey says.

When the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO) made the first detection of gravitational waves in 2015, for instance, scientists were able to trace them back to two colliding black holes weighing 36 and 29 solar masses, the lightweight cousins of the supermassive black holes that power quasars.

Scientists pinpointed the region in the sky where the two black holes violently melded and kicked up swirls of the spacetime ripples, locating their stomping grounds more precisely than ever before.

Libbrecht still does his fair share of work on massive - scale science: He also works on the LIGO project, in which a few hundred scientists are studying gravitational - wave signals from supernovae and black holes.

With the Aug. 14 detection of spacetime ripples, scientists were able to home in on the location of gravitational wave flinging black holes more precisely than ever before, illustrated in lime green on a map of the sky.

As the black holes drew near in a deepening pit of spacetime, they also churned up that fabric, emitting gravitational radiation (or gravity waves, as scientists often call them).

In order to evaluate the assessment of the low emission zone, the scientists determined the reduction of tailpipe emissions of black carbon and ultrafine particles at a street - site by taking into account the concentrations measured in the urban backgrounIn order to evaluate the assessment of the low emission zone, the scientists determined the reduction of tailpipe emissions of black carbon and ultrafine particles at a street - site by taking into account the concentrations measured in the urban backgrounin the urban background.

Scientists are also trying to figure out the role that aerosol particles — including a component of soot known as black carbon — play in influencing the behavior of Himalayan glaciers.

'' [E] missions of black carbon are the second strongest contribution to current global warming, after carbon dioxide emissions,» wrote Veerabhadran Ramanathan, a prominent climate scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and Greg Carmichael, a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Iowa, in the April 2008 issue of the journal Nature Geoscience.

In the center of a distant galaxy, almost 300 million light years from Earth, scientists have discovered a supermassive black hole that is «choking» on a sudden influx of stellar debris.

A new study published in Physical Review Letters outlines how scientists could use gravitational wave experiments to test the existence of primordial black holes, gravity wells formed just moments after the Big Bang that some scientists have posited could be an explanation for dark matter.

As this colliding material circles closer into the black hole, it heats up, eventually giving off X-ray emissions, which can lag behind the optical emissions, similar to what the scientists observed in the data.

«Scientists identify a black hole choking on stardust: Data suggest black holes swallow stellar debris in bursts.»

For the first time, scientists worldwide and at Penn State University have detected both gravitational waves and light shooting toward our planet from one massively powerful event in space — the birth of a new black hole created by the merger of two neutron stars.

Though not dangerous to humans, scientists are alarmed by the new boom in Mnemiopsis leidyi because it has already devastated fish stocks in the Black Sea.

Researchers at the University of California, Davis, and in the Netherlands have discovered how a group of three closely related fungal pathogens have evolved into a lethal threat to the world's bananas, whilst an international consortium led by scientists from Wageningen UR (University & Research Centre) has unravelled the DNA of the fungus that causes black Sigatoka disease in bananas.

The two black holes that spawned the latest waves were particularly hefty, with masses about 31 and 19 times that of the sun, scientists report June 1 in Physical Review Letters.

Now, with three black hole mergers under their belts, scientists are looking forward to a future in which gravitational wave detections become routine.

A computer simulation of two black holes merging into one created recently by scientists at the University of Texas and the Theoretical Astrophysics Centre in Copenhagen should provide them with a detailed idea of what type of gravity waves to expect.

Scientists may soon be able to tease out a faint signal of gravitational waves from black hole collisions too distant to be detected directly, scientists with LIGO, the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory, report in thScientists may soon be able to tease out a faint signal of gravitational waves from black hole collisions too distant to be detected directly, scientists with LIGO, the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory, report in thscientists with LIGO, the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory, report in the April...

Seeing that you have hung out your own shingle as a black, male scientist might inspire more people who find themselves in a situation that is similar to the one you've described to do the same thing.

«Often, the insects in amber can only be identified as black marks,» reports the scientist.

Scientists will need more data to sort out how the black hole duos form, says physicist Emanuele Berti of the University of Mississippi in Oxford.

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.

Labenne owns seven pieces of Black Beauty, the second most after Piatek, and has been a primary source of material for scientists in Europe.

A 2007 European Commission — funded report put together by a network of social researchers in Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, and the United Kingdom found that black, migrant, and ethnic minority women scientists were underrepresented in all seven countries.

That age would have made Black Beauty much older than the shergottites, which are on average a few hundred million years old, but not nearly as old as the 4.1 - billion - year - old Allan Hills 84001, a softball - sized Mars meteorite that sparked lasting controversy in 1996, when some scientists claimed it contained fossilized bacteria.

Created in honor of this year's color - themed National Chemistry Week, the video explains why certain objects appear black and how scientists have created surfaces that are more than 100 times darker than black paint.

LIGO scientist David Reitze takes us on a 1.3 billion year journey that begins with the violent merger of two black holes in the distant universe.

Scientists predict that the supermassive black holes will then close in together and merge over time.

As a black man in South Africa, Philander had to cope with apartheid's brutal white - supremacist system on his path to becoming a scientist.

«I don't think many studies have realized this yet: Black carbon impacts global warming in at least four different ways,» said V. Ramanathan, an atmospheric scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

A black, diamond - spackled pebble just a few centimeters across is the remainder of a comet that struck Earth almost 29 million years ago — making it the first direct evidence of a comet exploding in our atmosphere, scientists say.

In «Racial grant gap» (27 August, p 5), you report that «black scientists receive 10 per cent fewer funding awards...

In recent years, scientists have confirmed a remarkable link between two kinds of objects that should, by all rights, have nothing to do with each other: black holes and strange metals.

In 1998, a bot known as ROPOS («Remotely Operated Platform for Ocean Science») sawed a black smoker free from the sea floor and hauled it up to allow scientists to examine its structure and unique organisms.

Scientists typically show babies faces in black and white, with head - shaped borders.

Black holes have a reputation for destruction but it was only in 2011 that scientists caught one in the act, watching it devour an errant star.

He says that young black investigators should mark themselves early as committed, dependable scientists in the eyes of reviewers, and the best way to do that is to publish.