Sentences with phrase «by physicists at»

Meanwhile, a new technique has allowed a separate team led by physicists at Stockholm University to map the unique way supercooled liquid water fluctuates between two states — both of them liquid, just different kinds.

Molecular biology was pioneered by physicists at a time when biology was truly a distinct discipline.

An international team of researchers led by physicists at the University of Basel have been studying the lubricity of this material on the nanometer scale.

Recent investigations by physicists at the University of Maryland indicate that grapheneâ $» one - atom - thick sheets of carbonâ $» could one day supplant silicon as the material of choice for important applications such as high - speed computer chips and biochemical sensors.

The data also confirm that neutrinos have mass, as first reported in 1998 by physicists at the Super-Kamiokande particle detector (Super-K) in Mozumi, Japan.

BT's system is based on experiments done by physicists at the Defence Research Agency laboratory in Malvern.

The solar cells containing organic semiconductors created at KTU were constructed and tested by physicists at Lausanne.

The discovery made by physicists at the University of Warsaw demonstrates that other magnetic elements - such as chromium, iron and nickel - can be used in place of manganese.

The winners were much heralded following last year's discovery of the Higgs by physicists at the CERN particle physics lab near Geneva, Switzerland, using its Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

Developed by physicists at the University of Bath, working with colleagues at the University of Cambridge and University College London, the technique relies on the curious fact that many biological and pharmaceutical molecules can be either «left - handed» or «right - handed».

The periodic table's heavyweight, ununoctium (with 118 protons), was synthesized by physicists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 2006.

Nevertheless, the Copenhagen interpretation was voted the preferred explanation of quantum weirdness by physicists at a conference in 1997.

Playing a game such as «Find the Lady» in the quantum world has now been proposed by physicists at the Institute of Applied Physics (IAP) of the University of Bonn together with their colleagues from Austria and the USA.

As the countdown continues to the Presidential election, new analytical tools by physicists at The City College of New York promise a quicker and remarkably accurate method of predicting election trends with Twitter.

A small but mighty quantum computer was debuted in August by physicists at the University of Maryland.

Following a stint in the Air Force, I was approached by a physicist at Washington University in St. Louis named Michel Ter - Pogossian, who pioneered the use of short - lived radioactive cyclotron - produced isotopes in biology and medicine, which to most people was completely novel.

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The «cosmic ray test» was developed by Silas Beane, a nuclear physicist at the University of Washington, and involves scientists building up a simulation of space using a lattice or grid.

This rap song made by some particle physicists at CERN (the European science center where the LHC is) says the same things in a slightly different way....

In recent years, the eminent mathematician and mathematical physicist Sir Roger Penrose has taken up the Lucas argument, further refined it, and answered criticisms that had been leveled at it by mathematicians and philosophers.

Hirsch, an authority on writing and a professor of English at the University of Virginia, assumes that responsibility himself, aided by his Virginia colleagues historian Joseph Kett and physicist James Trefil.

British physicist P.C.W. Davies has concluded that the odds against the initial conditions being suitable for the formation of stars, which are necessary for planets and thus life, is a one followed by at least a thousand billion billion zeros.

A number of modern physicists hold that events at the sub-atomic level are not only indeterminable or unpredictable by scientific observation, but that they are also unpredictable even in principle.

A flamboyant Lebanese - born physicist known as Dr. K, Dr. Kaloyeros was also at the center of a separate complaint brought by the state attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman.

Kaloyeros was hired by the University at Albany in 1988 under recruitment programs created by then Gov. Mario Cuomo, who personally interviewed the physicist.

He was told this week by a state trooper that his campaign SUV can not travel at speeds measurable mainly by Austrian physicists.

In 2012, four physicists at the University of California, Santa Barbara — Ahmed Almheiri, Donald Marolf, Joseph Polchinski and James Sully, known collectively by physicists as AMPS — shocked the physics community with the results of a thought experiment.

«Quantum cryptography is a fundamentally new way to give us unconditional security ensured by the laws of quantum physics,» says Chao - Yang Lu, a physicist at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, and a member of the team that developed the satellite.

Space Physicists led by Lancaster University used data to show that Cassini had passed through the region at Saturn where magnetic reconnection was occurring, which has never before been observed.

«Our research shows for the first time that classical systems such as artificial spin ice can be designed to demonstrate topological ordered phases, which previously have been found only in quantum conditions,» said Los Alamos National Laboratory physicist Cristiano Nisoli, leader of the theoretical group that collaborated with an experimental group at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, led by Peter Schiffer (now at Yale University).

The National Eclipse Ballooning Project, led by Angela Des Jardins, a solar physicist at Montana State University in Bozeman, will launch over 100 weather balloons at various times along the path of totality and measure changes in such parameters as temperature and wind speed.

In the long term, electrons accelerated by high - repetition PW pulses could slash the cost of particle physicists» dream machine: a 30 - kilometer - long electron - positron collider that would be a successor to the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the European particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland.

Efim Khazanov, a laser physicist at IAP, says the XCELS could be up and running by about 2026 — assuming the government agrees to the cost: roughly 12 billion rubles (about $ 200 million).

The physicists calculated that tiny fibers called «fractals,» because they look the same when viewed at different scales, can trap electrons dislodged from the interior surfaces by other electrons zooming in from the plasma.

«Noise in neural systems can play a useful role» by enhancing transmission, says team member Frank Moss, a physicist at the University of Missouri in St. Louis.

Still, physicists have been very good at rewiring their circuits by means of abstract mathematics, which must replace old ways of visualizing the world each time we encounter something radically new.

For nearly a century, physicists have explained the peculiarities of their quantum properties — such as wave - particle duality and indeterminism — by invoking an entity called the wave function, which exists in a superposition of all possible states at once right up until someone observes it, at which point it is said to «collapse» into a single state.

One goal is to test whether entanglement is affected by a changing gravitational field, by comparing a photon that stays in the weaker gravitational environment of orbit with an entangled partner sent to Earth, says Anton Zeilinger, a physicist at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna.

In March employees of the Lawrence Hall of Science at the University of California at Berkeley discovered that the solid gold Nobel medallion won by physicist Ernest Lawrence had been swiped overnight from a locked glass display cabinet.

Trinks, then a physicist at the Technical University of Hamburg - Harburg in Germany, had come to Nordaustland — far north of the Arctic Circle — to peer 4 billion years back in time to an era shortly after the end of the bombardment of Earth by asteroids.

They were led by Chris Wehrenberg, a physicist at the DOE's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and described in a recent paper in Nature.

It's a mistake to think of the multiverse as a theory, invented by desperate physicists at the end of their imaginative ropes.

Seeking an explanation, Suarez and his colleague Valerio Scarani (now at the National University of Singapore) proposed a way to modify the basic experiment, which had been carried out by physicists in Geneva.

But it is a particular challenge for women physicists, according to a study carried out in 1998 by physicists Laurie McNeil from the University of North Carolina and Marc Sher at the College of William and Mary in the US.

According to a recent study led by Gábor Horváth, a biological physicist at Eötvös University in Hungary, cave painters understood — better than many artists of the modern age — the laws governing animal motion.

The renowned British physicist Paul Dirac first posited the existence of antimatter in 1928, and four years later researchers at Caltech detected the first documented antiparticles — positrons produced by the impact of cosmic rays on the atmosphere.

In that year, physicist Steve Lamoreaux, now at Yale, managed to detect the feeble Casimir force on two small surfaces separated by a few thousandths of a millimeter.

Now, Jeffrey Hangst, an experimental physicist at Aarhus University in Denmark, and his 48 colleagues at the ALPHA collaboration at CERN have precisely measured the energy difference between antihydrogen's lowest energy state, called the 1S, and a higher energy state known as the 2S, by far the most precisely measured transition in ordinary hydrogen.

«The frontiers of fundamental physics have traditionally been studied with particle colliders, such as the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, by smashing together subatomic particles at great energies,» says UCSD physicist George Fuller, who collaborated with Paris and other staff scientists at Los Alamos to develop the novel theoretical model.

Federico Capasso, a physicist at Harvard, leads a small team that is trying to create a repulsive Casimir force by tinkering with the shapes of plates or with the coatings used to cover them.

These changes are being exploited by a team of experimental physicists at Saarland University for a new type of surveillance technology.