Sentences with phrase «first year of discovery»

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Two of the most vaunted physics results of the past few years — the announced discovery of both cosmic inflation and gravitational waves at the BICEP2 experiment in Antarctica, and the supposed discovery of superluminal neutrinos at the Swiss - Italian border — have now been retracted, with far less fanfare than when they were first published.

• For biologists, 1995 was a banner year, marked by the first discovery in decades of a whole new kind of animal life.

One of the more surprising discoveries for me as a newly ordained pastor (11 years ago) occurred when I went to my first pastors conference.

I first became aware of the structure of the narratives that express world view several years before the discovery of my cancer, when I began during my sabbatical year to study congregations systematically.

As The Washington Post explains, the discovery of the new location first began 15 years ago when a team at the Tower of David Museum began an expansion project: «But the story took a strange turn when archaeologists started peeling away layers under the floor in an old abandoned building adjacent to the museum in Jerusalem's Old City.»

Apr. 4, 2013 — A structural biologist at the Florida State University College of Medicine has made discoveries that could lead scientists a step closer to understanding how life first emerged on Earth billions of years ago.

But, as Popper points out, this reductionist passage was written in the very nick of time, for it was in the same year that Chadwick announced his discovery of the neutron and Anderson (1933) first discovered the positron.

An evidence of the accuracy of the high rating for the death of a spouse was their discovery that the number of deaths of widows and widowers during the first year following the death of their spouse is ten times greater than the deaths of others in their age groups.

These are all discoveries I have made at some point in my life and while the first few would have potentially saved me a lot of embarrassment and blushing had I known these beforehand, the latter would have also saved me lots of not - so - satisfying chocolate treats over the year.

Following the birth of my first child, more than twenty - five years ago, my search for answers to questions like these grew into my passion to understand human behavior, and finally, to my recent discovery of «nature's plan for parenting.»

The fun, floppy - eared Blue Stripe BunnyShis soft and ready to comfort any newborn through his first years, which are sure to be filled with hours of naps, play and discovery.

The sweet bunny blankie is ready to comfort any newborn through her first years, which are sure to be filled with hours of naps, play and discovery.

The exciting discovery and recovery of the first complete fossil of an Ichthyosaurus by ten - year - old Mary Anning in 1811 is told in an attractive graphic novel format, perfect for young readers.

And if the researchers can find those first species to recolonize the crater, the discovery could teach us not only more about the dinosaurs» demise, but also how life survived similar events billions of years earlier.

«This represents the first discovery of a «new» canid species in Africa in over 150 years,» says Klaus - Peter Koepfli of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Washington, DC.

LIKE CLOCKWORK Scientists reported the first discovery of a pulsar 50 years ago.

The most spectacular consequence of this discovery is the ability to detect sunspots on the unseen side of the star — a possibility first broached by Douglas Braun and Charles Lindsey, solar researchers at NorthWest Research Associates in Boulder, more than 10 years ago.

«The discoveries show that penguin diversity in the early Paleocene was clearly higher than we previously assumed,» says Mayr, and he adds, «In turn, this diversity indicates that the first representatives of penguins already arose during the age of dinosaurs, more than 65 million years ago.»

In January 2007, however, researchers announced the discovery of the first fossil leaf insect: a well - preserved, 47 - million - year - old specimen from Messel, Germany.

The first Neandertal fossils were discovered in 1829 in Engis, Belgium, and in 1848 at Forbes» Quarry, Gibraltar, but were not recognized as an early human species until after the 1856 discovery of «Neandertal 1» — a 40,000 - year - old specimen, including a skullcap and various bones, found at the Kleine Feldhofer Grotte in the Neander Valley near Düsseldorf, Germany.

The discovery of terrestrial oxygen on the moon now suggests another way to get at the atmospheric history of Earth's first two billion years.

This discovery provides the first strong evidence that a piece of land from North America latched onto the Australian mainland 1.7 billion years ago.

Lee was skeptical himself, and that is why it took four years of detailed work by his lab at the University of California, Los Angeles, (U.C.L.A.), along with collaborators spread across the country before the first paper was published on the potentially revolutionary discovery, on February 16 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

This year marks the semicentennial of the discovery of pulsars, first observed by Jocelyn Bell Burnell, shown here in 1968 at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory in Cambridge, England.

The saga of the Osedax «bone - eating» worms began 12 years ago, with the first discovery of these deep - sea creatures that feast on the bones of dead animals.

By combining the power of a «natural lens» in space with the capability of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers made a surprising discovery — the first example of a compact yet massive, fast - spinning, disk - shaped galaxy that stopped making stars only a few billion years after the big bang.

Fossil hunter Mary Anning's 1823 discovery of the first complete plesiosaur skeleton led to more than 190 years of arguing.

In a paper published Sept. 21 in Cell, Harvard Medical School genetics professor Olivier Pourquié — whose lab discovered the segmentation clock 20 years ago — and colleagues report that they used mouse cells to reconstitute a stable version of this clockwork for the first time in a petri dish, leading to several new discoveries about where the clock is located, what makes it tick and how the vertebral column takes shape.

Now, after years of efforts to reintroduce the frogs to the Santa Monica Mountains outside of Los Angeles, the National Parks Service announced the discovery of nine clusters of red - legged frog eggs in the region's streams — the first evidence in decades that the species is sustaining a population in the area.

Following the previous year's discovery of the HIV virus, the first HIV test is licensed by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Over 12 years after the discovery of AIDS, the US government launches its first national media campaign explicitly promoting condoms

Citing the discovery in the 1990s of 1.7 - million - year - old bones in the Caucasus region of Georgia, archaeologists had proposed that the first hominid migrants from Africa established themselves in the Near East and then moved only slowly outward toward Asia and Europe.

Data gathered from the previous galaxy clusters were studied by teams all over the world, enabling them to make important discoveries, among them galaxies that existed only hundreds of million years after the Big Bang heic1523 and the first predicted appearance of a gravitationally lensed supernova heic1525.

Until the discovery of the first jawbone at Dmanisi 25 years ago, researchers thought that the first hominins to leave Africa were classic H. erectus (also known as H. ergaster in Africa).

The idea was first challenged about 10 years ago with the discovery of more complete skeletons, including a honey - badger - sized predator of baby dinosaurs, and a beaver - like fish - eater called Castorocauda.

Discoveries in more recent years of more complete skeletons in rare fossil beds that preserve exceptional details first challenged this idea about 10 years ago.

2013 was a banner year for the study of evolution, with major discoveries in everything from human evolution to the origin of mammals and the first life.

With the help of a supercomputer, Dunn's team showed that the worm is a product of the first split among bilateral animals more than half a billion years ago — a discovery that will help biologists understand the origins of the digestive and nervous systems.

The body fat regulatory system discovered by the scientists in Gothenburg is the first new one since the discovery of the hormone, leptin, 23 years ago by American scientists.

This collection of marine microbial genomic, the first in the world on a global scale, will provide new clues about a reservoir of biodiversity yet to explore, considering that it could imply the discovery of tens of millions of new genes in the coming years.

Since the first discovery of a Kuiper Belt object 10 years ago, more than 600 have been found.

The discovery of this huge shift changes our vision of Mars during the first billion years of its history, at a time when life may have emerged.

But the large volumes of data on Arctic sea and land ice that IceBridge has collected during its nine years of operations there have also enabled scientific discoveries ranging from the first map showing what parts of the bottom of the massive Greenland Ice Sheet are thawed to improvements in snowfall accumulation models for all of Greenland.

This latest discovery comes on the heels of the first observation of a pentaquark — a five - quark particle — announced last year by the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider.

But earlier this year, UT Austin religious studies scholars Geoffrey Smith and Brent Landau added to the list with their discovery of several fifth - or sixth - century Greek fragments of the First Apocalypse of James, which was thought to have been preserved only in its Coptic translations until now.

Our team's discovery of cut - marked bones [the marks were inflicted while carving meat off the bone of a mammal] in Dikika, Ethiopia — dating back to 3.39 Ma [mega-annum, or million years]-- indicated that Homo habilis, «the handy man,» was not the first in our lineage to use tools.

The same way as hot - Jupiters paved the road on the first years of exoplanet discoveries, dedicated programs to detect and characterize hot Earths and super-Earths are the natural step towards (near) future characterization of potentially habitable worlds.

The discovery of a 500 million - year - old fossilised brain has helped identify a point of crucial transformation in early animals, and answered some of the questions about how heads first evolved.

Neuroscientists gained several surprising insights into memory this year, including the discovery that the brain creates multiple copies of memories at once — even though it hides the long - term copy from our awareness at first.

That year, summer students at the VLA made the first discovery of radio emission from a brown dwarf.