Sentences with phrase «discovery of new fields»
In every branch of science, Maxwell declared, «the labor of careful measurement has been rewarded by the discovery of new fields of research and by the development of new scientific ideas.»
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«The opportunities for new discoveries in the field of deep learning are very exciting, and the applications are endless,» said Google engineering fellow Geoffrey Hinton, who will serve as Vector's chief scientific advisor, in a statement.
Mayan Energy, the AIM listed oil and gas company, has announced a new gas discovery at Stockdale field, in Wilson County, Texas, as part of its ongoing development activities at the Morris 1 well.
Ultimately, it is time for a wholesale review of how Canada can better stimulate the innovation economy and improve the rate of commercialization of new discoveries in high - tech, scientific, medical and environmental fields.
The energy sector has been the strongest performer, experiencing gains of 11 per cent due to favourable developments regarding increased sales of LNG to the US and the discovery of new oil fields.
The discoveries and scientific creations of recent years in the field of nuclear energy, transforming our period into a new power age, are directly traceable to the discoveries of radioactive elements by Becquerel and the Curies, inaugurating the new physics.9 A new depth of relations and energy revealed in both earlier and more recent experiments has routed the world - view of mechanism which Newton and his followers through the nineteenth century had come to take for granted.
Bulletin editorials have criticized the tendency of scientists to become «morally irresponsible stooges in a science factory»; and yet they have recognized that in pure research and even in some applied fields it is impossible to predict all uses of new discoveries, much less what their wider effects will be.
Developments in the «new biology,» which deals with wholes of increasing complexity in the organization of interrelated parts rather than with discrete and isolated segments, especially in molecular biology and the growing field of ecology, with its discoveries about the basic interdependence of living organisms with other living organisms and with its larger environmental context, have further undermined these traditions assumptions.
Even within the last five years discoveries have been made in the fields of medicine, space, science, electronics, sociology, cybernetics, that have stirred some men to think on a new plane which fires their imagination for even more discoveries.
Unembarrassed by any official fixing of the text by their churches, Protestant scholarship is free to take every advantage of new discoveries in the field of textual study, and to issue new translations whenever they seem to be called for.
Working with expert faculty, students will learn new skills in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields while cultivating a love of exploration, discovery, and scientific inquiry.
The Brain on Love A relatively new field, interpersonal neurobiology, draws its vigor from one of the great discoveries of our era: that the brain is constantly rewiring itself based on daily life.
A relatively new field, interpersonal neurobiology, draws its vigor from one of the great discoveries of our era: that the brain is constantly rewiring itself based on daily life.
«The discovery in 2009 of a new gas field near Israel, Lebanon, Cyprus, and Syria opened new possibilities to bypass the Saudi Barrier and to secure a new source of income.
A combination of the new fiscal regime and GNPC's promotional activities yielded results, as a number of oil exploration companies invested in Ghana, which led to the discovery in 2007 of the Jubilee Fields, followed by a quick succession of other discoveries, including the TEN fields.»
The discovery of this high - spin superconductor has given a new direction for this research field.
As happens so often in this field of research, though, each discovery brought with it a wave of new challenges.
What excites her is the rapid pace of change in her field: «New discoveries are coming out every day, and it's all cutting edge and new.&raqNew discoveries are coming out every day, and it's all cutting edge and new.&raqnew.»
The discovery, which was accomplished by comparing data from NASA's Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope, has enabled the researchers to uncover dozens of new blazar candidates.
The discovery of this new component of the magnetic field may explain why in the case of Venus, Earth's «twin» planet, the liquid metal core does not produce a magnetic field.
The discovery will open «new field of research» into the molecular basis of sniffing out disease, says Marie - Christine Broillet, a specialist in olfaction from the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.
New discoveries in the young field of acoustic archaeology hint that just as we create elaborate sonic environments with our electronics, the ancients may have sculpted their soundscapes as well.
«Discoveries of new species of animals like Ichibengops are particularly exciting because they help us to better understand the group of animals that gave rise to mammals,» said Field Museum's Kenneth Angielczyk, PhD, associate curator of paleomammalogy.
The discovery of widespread melting came after hydrologist Åsa K. Rennermalm of Rutgers University, New Jersey, noticed that stream runoffs at her field site in west Greenland were unusually heavy.
«It was an exciting time, and I really felt like we were on the frontiers of discovery,» says another postdoc at the time, Meritxell Huch, now at the Gurdon Institute in Cambridge, U.K. «But we certainly didn't think we were opening a new field.»
But instead of the end of the story, scientists see the discovery as the birth of a new field: gravitational wave astronomy.
Some basic research findings are being translated into new treatments, and with the discovery of induced pluripotent stem cells in 2006, the field has seen a step - change in biological understanding that will affect the way new drugs are identified and tested and, potentially, the way cells can be generated in the lab.
An examination of millions of studies of molecules that play a role in biological function reveals that «scientists in this field were about 10-fold less efficient [at making new discoveries] than they could have been,» one of the paper's co-authors, computational biologist Andrey Rzhetsky of the University of Chicago (UC) in Illinois, told our colleague John Bohannon on publication day.
Despite its somewhat naive simplicity, the method of the local molecular field has had undeniable success in satisfactorily explaining a large number of previously known facts and in opening the way for the discovery of new facts.
There is a new contender in the field of gene discovery, and it's giving knockout mice a run for their money.
«As a first in this field, we proposed the approach of essentially «screwing up» the efflux pump's protein assembly, and this led to the discovery of molecules with a new type of antibacterial activity,» said co-author Jeremy Smith, who serves as a UT - ORNL Governor's Chair and director of the UT - ORNL Center for Molecular Biophysics.
«This is a very exciting discovery, found by scouring the new generation of wide - area, sensitive surveys astronomers are conducting using NASA's Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer in orbit and ground - based telescopes in Chile and Hawaii,» said Daniel Stern of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
A new genetic discovery in the field of Huntington's disease (HD) could mean a more effective way in determining severity of this neurological disease when using specific treatments.
This discovery prompted Dalibard and Claude Cohen - Tannoudji of the College de France and the Ecole Normale and my group at Stanford to construct a new theory of laser cooling based on a complex but beautiful interplay between the atoms and their interaction with the light fields.
Her team's research opens up new possibilities in the nascent field of 3 - D nanomagnetics, which has evolved through recent discoveries of new magnetic effects at the atomic level, as well as advances in characterization methods such as in the X-ray magnetic microscopy technique used by the group.
One area that could be significantly impacted by this new discovery is the field of «molecular electronics».
The field has experienced monumental challenges developing new and effective drug therapies, not the least of which was the discovery that — until recently - clinical trials were conducted where up to 30 % of participants did not have the Alzheimer's disease - related brain change targeted by the experimental drug.
University of Central Florida researchers have developed a new and better way of detecting interactions between light and matter at the atomic level, a discovery that could lead to advances in the emerging field of two - dimensional materials and new ways of controlling light.
«Although we tend to think of paleontological discoveries coming from new field work, many of our most important conclusions come from specimens already in museums,» says Dr. Christian Kammerer, Research Curator of Paleontology at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and author of the new study.
We identify PSO J060.3200 +25.9644 (near - infrared spectral type L1) and PSO J077.1033 +24.3809 (L2) as new members of Taurus based on... ▽ More We present the discovery of eight young M7 - L2 dwarfs in the Taurus star - forming region and the Scorpius - Centaurus OB Association, serendipitously found during a wide - field search for L / T transition dwarfs using Pan-STARRS1 (optical) and WISE (mid-infrared) photometry.
«Ranging from basic research in plant molecular sciences through the field application of new discoveries, these teams benefit science, Washington agriculture, energy and human health.»
The fields in which the awards are given are among the most exciting and productive in science today, and the work that is being recognized has in each case opened new opportunities for discovery by generations of investigators.
«The choices we make will help dictate the pace of discovery, the health and the culture of this new field.
Abstract: The K2 mission will make use of the Kepler spacecraft and its assets to expand upon Kepler's groundbreaking discoveries in the fields of exoplanets and astrophysics through new and exciting observations.
The discovery driven group, PETRO Case Consortium at Case Western University, a Park AFM user, investigates the area of molecular, macromolecular, and supramolecular synthesis and structure of polymers and nanomaterials capable of controlled - assembly to form ultrathin films and dispersions with the aim of finding new technologies and materials that improve and replace established oil and gas field formations.
Early science commissioning observations have shown an estimated photo... ▽ More The K2 mission will make use of the Kepler spacecraft and its assets to expand upon Kepler's groundbreaking discoveries in the fields of exoplanets and astrophysics through new and exciting observations.
POLENET data is enabling new studies of the inner earth, tectonic plates, the earth's magnetic field, climate and weather, and the solar wind, and will lead to as yet unimagined discoveries about the critical polar regions of our planet.
Dr. Yamanaka's iPS discovery, first completed with animal cells in 2006 and with human cells in 2007, has since altered the fields of cell biology and stem cell research — opening promising new prospects for drug discovery, personalized medicine and tissue regeneration.
Initiated by the discovery of Ralph Steinman at Rockefeller University, New York, in the early 1970s, European scientists were attracted by this exciting field of research early on and continue to make major contributions.
New discoveries in the field of stem cell research have frequently appeared in the news and in scientific literature.