Sentences with phrase «by subsequent discoveries»

The idea that Earth is nowhere special has been reinforced by subsequent discoveries.

Not exact matches

COBE's discovery of tiny variations in the temperature of the cosmic microwave background and the subsequent confirmation by WMAP that these are in excellent agreement with the predictions of inflation.

In 1840, the wily Swiss geologist Louis Agassiz swung by Glen Roy and offered the elegant theory that the valley had been dammed not by earthen barriers but by icy glaciers, a view that subsequent discoveries bore out.

Over the last few decades, however, as subsequent discoveries pushed back the date for the earliest stone tools to 2.6 million years ago (Ma) and the earliest fossils attributable to early Homo to only 2.4 - 2.3 Ma, there has been increasing openness to the possibility of tool manufacture before 2.6 Ma and by hominins other than Homo.

But the antenna's detection of the first FRB — and the subsequent confirmed discovery of nearly two dozen more powerful radio pulses across the sky by Parkes and other radio telsescopes — has sent astrophysicists scurrying to find more of the objects and to explain them.

The discovery that the universe was expanding by Edwin Hubble in the 1920s and subsequent observations suggest the universe began about 13.8 billion years ago in an event called the Big Bang.

The detection by the upgraded Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (Advanced LIGO), along with two subsequent gravitational wave discoveries, confirmed a major prediction of Einstein's 1915 general theory of relativity and heralded a new era in physics, allowing scientists to study the universe in a new way by using gravity instead of light.

To date, most of the negative studies have been carried out in CFS and not in prostate cancer, and some have speculated that the original discovery of XMRV may in fact reflect bona fide viral infection but that subsequent studies were potentially tainted by mouse genomic contamination and / or widespread circulation of positive control plasmids containing the XMRV infectious molecular clone VP62 [40], [41], [42].

The pre-title sequence, which carries a slightly Hawksian vibe (in particular the near - silent opening of Air Force), leads metro police to a discovery that will anchor all subsequent events: Anne's decaying cadaver, lying in state, head surrounded by flower petals.

John Callahan was a quadriplegic, and the movie looks like it deals mostly with his recovery from alcoholism and subsequent discovery of his ability to draw cartoons by grasping a pen in both hands.

Insomniac City by Bill Hayes This memoir of the writer's midlife move to New York City after the loss of his partner, and his subsequent discovery of two new loves — New York City and Oliver Sacks — is beautifully and sparely written, yet emotionally resonant.

Both discoveries produced immediate practical impacts, resulting in successful management of subsequent outbreaks, greatly reducing the morbidity and mortality caused by these two infections.

Avian veterinarians were initially excited by the discovery of avian bornavirus and the subsequent development of a commercial PCR test to identify it.

Dauphine then described her subsequent interactions with AAHS and the police, as well as her discovery of the blog created by the defendant.

Dr. Mellersh performed the initial research (1,2) that provided information vital to the discovery of the Cord 1 gene mutation in English Springer Spaniels and the subsequent development of the test by Dr. Gary Johnson of the University of Missouri.

In 2016 he came to public attention for the discovery and subsequent donation to the Prado Museum of a previously unknown portrait by Diego Velázquez.

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery presents its third solo exhibition of work by Bob Thompson (American, 1937 - 1966), including discoveries revealed subsequent to the artists» momentous 1998 Whitney Museum of American Art retrospective.

Resurgens Theatre presents an original practice production of the 1592 Elizabethan play depicting the real - life murder of Thomas Arden by his wife Alice Arden and her lover, and their subsequent discovery and punishment.

Phinthong's interest lies in the replica skull, whose status as a fake is revealed to visitors to the Lusaka National Museum by one of the museum's guides, who, as part of his tour of the collection, narrates the story of the original skull's discovery and its subsequent removal.

The trustees» subsequent discovery of the unlawfulness of the transfers was treated by the judge — applying Bradstock Trustee Services Ltd v Nabarro Nathanson (a firm)[1995] 4 All ER 888 with the apparent assistance of a concession by the claimant's counsel — as the discovery that the facts which they already knew gave rise to a negligence claim and that, by virtue of LA 1980, s 14A (9), this is excluded from the definition of knowledge required for the occurrence of the starting date under LA 1980, s 14A.