Sentences with phrase «by massive»

There's just so much discovery that was enabled by the massive dataset.

These cosmic lenses are created by massive structures like galaxies and galaxy clusters, which deflect the light from objects behind them due to their strong gravity — an effect, called gravitational lensing.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is caused by massive motor neuron death and, as pre ‐ clinical data have failed to translate into better outcomes in clinical trials [1], stem cell trials have been conducted to find alternative therapeutic solutions.

The Eemian - age chevron beach structures with consistent southwesterly direction throughout windward shores in the Bahamas, with wave runup deposits at elevations as much as 20 — 40 m above today's sea level and reaching as far as a few kilometers inland, must have been formed by massive storms in the direction of the prevailing winds.

«The rapid increase in sales of electronic cigarettes, driven by massive marketing campaigns, have left health policy makers struggling to know how best to respond.

A study recently published in Nature suggests that an extreme global warming event 56 million years ago known as the Palaeocene - Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) was driven by massive CO2 emissions from volcanoes during the formation of the North Atlantic Ocean.

In general, coral species that are more resistant to bleaching can be characterized by massive growth forms, thick or less - integrated tissues and slow growth rates.

Regarding statistical expertise: I'm sure Wegman has more expertise than I, but that doesn't help much if someone breaks ethical guidelines by massive cherry - picking.

«In order for the asteroids to pass sufficiently close to the white dwarf to be shredded, then eaten, they must be perturbed from the asteroid belt — essentially pushed — by a massive object like a giant planet,» said Farihi.

Classic selective sweeps revealed by massive sequencing in cattle Qanbari, S., H. Pausch, S. Jansen, M. Somel et al. 2014.

Many of the small particles will get pulled along by the massive body.

I'm currently in the USA: Texas was hit by another massive storm the day before yesterday; today Missouri continues to experience torrential rain and widespread flooding is expected, including from the Mississippi River.

The image of this quasar is split into four by a massive galaxy acting as a gravitational lens.

The MIS 5a palaeosol is overlain by massive sands, representing a major change in the depositional regime, which we interpret as evidence for climatic desiccation at the start of the last glacial period (MIS 4), which would be consistent with other dated records for the region [13], [16], [18], [30].

The coupling between the oceans is established by a massive reorganization of the atmospheric circulation.»

The team believes a dip in 2011, which reduced the brightness of Tabby's star by up to 15 per cent, can be explained by a massive ringed planet five times the size of Jupiter transiting in front of it.

The findings support the theory that the Gulf of Mexico was landlocked as the Paleocene Epoch morphed into the warmer Eocene, punctuated by a massive loss of water due to evaporation and, millennia later, was inundated again.

«After examining rocks 450 million years old or older, we believe the drop was caused by a massive burial of organic carbon during the time period,» Quinton said.

This was caused by a massive volcanic structure, the Tharsis volcanic dome [1], which is the largest in the Solar System.

This is because any super-Earths close enough to their stars have likely had their atmospheres stripped away by massive doses of radiation.

The changes, announced late January and formalized in April, were initially overshadowed by massive anticorruption protests.

It's time to stop pretending otherwise, to stop pretending that we haven't already entered the Anthropocene, a new geological age marked by massive species loss (already achieved) and climate change (in progress).

There was no noise from outside, and the room we sat down in was bright and spacious, dominated by a massive round dining table.

Tyrosine is just one of the nutrients turned toxic by the massive size of blood binges.

The fossil record makes clear that birds were the only dinosaurs to survive a mass extinction about 66 million years ago, probably caused by a massive asteroid hitting Earth.

Einstein's insight was that gravity is the grid, which is warped by massive objects such as the sun.

During the Last Glacial Maximum, Canada was completely inundated by the massive Laurentide Ice Sheet.

The recognition software has been fuelled by massive sets of vocal data built into a huge model of how people speak.

A 5 - metre tylosaur from Kansas that he studied in 2008 was killed by a massive bite to its head.

Specifically, 60 % of the bacterial species of the deep ocean detected by massive sequencing techniques are unknown.

Quasars are young galaxies powered by massive black holes, extremely bright, extremely distant, and thus highly redshifted.

That would include lower - energy, harder - to - detect antineutrinos created by massive stars that exploded billions of years ago.

One major influence is the slow rebound of crust that was weighed down by massive ice sheets during the last ice age that have since melted away.

Now, a new, computer simulation — based study suggests that these giants were formed and fed by massive clouds of gas sloshing around in the aftermath of the big bang.

Pre-dawn emergency workers searched feverishly for survivors in the rubble of homes, primary schools and an hospital in an Oklahoma City suburb ravaged by a massive Monday afternoon tornado feared to have killed up to 91 people and injured well over 200 residents.

Last year's devastating category - 5 hurricane — Matthew — may be one of many past examples of a tropical storm fueled by massive rings of warm water that exist in the upper reaches of the Caribbean Sea.

Another experiment there, the South Pole Telescope, reported finding B - mode polarization last year, although the signal it saw was at a different angular scale across the sky and was clearly due to the known process of gravitational lensing (a warping of light caused by massive objects) of the CMB by large galaxies, rather than the primordial gravitational waves seen here.

They measured how light from the distant universe gets rerouted slightly by massive objects, like it's passing through a lens.

The U.S. occupation of Iraq was marked by massive and shocking corruption, incompetence, and implementation failures by U.S. agencies.

They are able to do this because they can measure an anomaly in Earth's magnetic field — like one caused by a massive hunk of metal.

Richard Zurek of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, is the project scientist for NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, whose gravity mapping provided support for the hypothesis that the northern lowlands were formed by a massive impact.

More than five years after the oil tanker Exxon Valdez hit a reef off the coast of Alaska, the people who claim they were harmed by the massive oil spill are finally having their day — or rather, their months — in court.

For thousands of years, Mother Nature has taken the blame for tremendous human suffering caused by massive flooding along the Yellow River, long known in China as the «River of Sorrow» and «Scourge of the Sons of Han.»

This last project, completed in 1990 and one of Starck's largest, involving both building and interior design, is an enormous black granite - clad casket pierced with tiny portholes and topped by a massive 360 - tonne steel shape in yellow steel that Starck calls a «golden flame» but others have described as anything from a huge sperm to a root vegetable.

Black holes whip out superheated gas from their accretion disks — pulled together from material in surrounding space by their massive gravity — at such temperatures that the resulting light can outshine entire galaxies.

Even with whole genomes, some of the earliest branches in Neoaves proved challenging to resolve, which was best explained by massive protein - coding sequence convergence and high levels of incomplete lineage sorting that occurred during a rapid radiation after the Cretaceous - Paleogene mass extinction event about 66 million years ago.

The start of a jet in the distant galaxy J1415 +1320 was magnified by a massive object in the foreground, closer to Earth.

In 1783 he calculated that the force of gravity exerted by a massive star could prevent light from escaping its surface.

Einstein had become famous when astronomers tested a key prediction of the theory concerning the bending of light as it passed by a massive object, such as the sun.

The gravitational interactions created in the outer disk by this massive star apparently acted as a catalyst for the gathering of debris to form other smaller, more distant moons.