Sentences with phrase «for evidence of»

At 12 — 13 months post-infection, necropsy tissues were analyzed for evidence of tissue pathology.

The ESA / Roscosmos Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) is mere weeks away from commencing its atmospheric search for evidence of recent geological activity, and possibly life on everyone's favorite Red Planet.

It will spend one Mars year searching for evidence of life.

On research for evidence of human - induced global warming, as published in Nature Geoscience:

He is currently studying both modern and ancient rocks and minerals, as well as samples of Martian meteors, for evidence of nanobes.

Breakthrough Listen, which is engaged in an ambitious mission to search one million nearby stars, and 100 galaxies for evidence of technologically advanced alien species, has tasked the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope, located in West Virginia, with collecting data on the asteroid across four radio bands, from 1 — 12 GHz, over the course of an initial 10 - hour period.

NASA decided to take a direct approach and look for evidence of microbial life as we understood it on Earth.

Blais is accustomed to covering space in his music by now — his recent piece on cosmic background radiation, to the tune of Circle of Life, lays down the science behind the search for evidence of cosmic inflation and gravitational waves in space's emissions.

Ovary samples are also examined histologically to look for evidence of skipped spawning.

Researchers have already begun looking for evidence of the protophobic boson in existing data from LHCb, a particle physics experiment at Europe's Large Hadron Collider.

Subjects were also assessed on clinical endpoints using the Movement Disorder Society revision of the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (MDS - UPDRS), and underwent brain MRI, dopamine transporter (DaT) SPECT imaging, and lumbar puncture for evidence of anti-AS antibodies in CSF.

Working with David Coulter, Charles Kilpatrick, and Ryan Foley of UC Santa Cruz, the team began combing the sky at nightfall for evidence of a never - before - seen collision of neutron stars.

To achieve this, the immune system is always on the lookout for evidence of foreign stuff, or what scientists refer to as antigens.

Vero and C6 / 36 cell cultures were maintained at 37 °C and 28 °C, respectively, and were examined daily for 10 days for evidence of viral cytopathic effects (CPE).

«Our next missions, Phoenix and Mars Science Laboratory, mark a transition from water to habitability — assessing whether sites where there's been water have had conditions suited to life,» said Charles Elachi, director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. «Where conditions were habitable, later missions may look for evidence of life.»

THE KAVLI FOUNDATION: Clem, you work on an experiment that looks for evidence of inflation in the cosmic microwave background.

«This study opens our eyes to new places to look for evidence of water, and suggests there's a whole lot more of it on Mercury than we thought.»

NASA has been considering a mission to Enceladus to search for evidence of alien life for several years, although no confirmed plans are in place.

When looking for evidence of global warming, there are many different indicators that we should look for.

Smith and a graduate student went to South Africa and collected samples from the Pinnacle Point archaeological site looking for evidence of the Toba super volcano.

The Pleistocene does offer some possibilities to directly look for evidence of GCR influence.

Related to this, the discovery of an increased endothelial cell population in the periphery of the human cornea has prompted an investigation for evidence of the existence of stem - like cells in the endothelial periphery.

Although NASA terminated funding in 2005 for a proposed Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (which would have searched for evidence of sub-ice, oceanic life on Europa, Callisto, and Ganymede), the Agency was still funding the development of a robotic submarine for exploring the sub-ice oceans of those icy moons in 2007 (Kathleen M. Wong, New Scientist, December 14, 2007).

When it comes to searching for evidence of life elsewhere in the Solar System, certain places will always make the top of the list, such as Mars, Europa, Enceladus and Titan.

Europa is now considered to be one of the best places to search for evidence of alien life elsewhere in the Solar System.

Look at the morphology of different seeds for evidence of dispersal method, like tufts on dandelion seeds for wind dispersal or hooks on stickers for catching in animal fur.

Another palaeontological hotspot is Australia, where scientists have been examining skeletal remains for evidence of racial variations in skull thickness.

Cells in the plate wells were observed for evidence of CPE every other day for 1 week.

Newly arrived at UC Berkeley, Townes soon learned of plans by young professor William «Jack» Welch to build a short - wavelength radio telescope, and offered some of his startup funds to build a maser amplifier and microwave spectrometer so the telescope could be used to search for evidence of complex molecules, like ammonia, in space.

The breathless write - ups followed NASA's teasing announcement of a news conference «that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life».

To explore a potential link between the outbreak and associated illness in humans, we blindly tested available sera from titi monkeys (n = 59), rhesus macaques housed in the same building (n = 36), CNPRC personnel and close contacts (n = 20), and random human blood donors (n = 81) for evidence of recent or prior infection by TMAdV by virus neutralization (Fig. 6).

In 1997, a team of Australian archaeologists, led by the late Mike Morwood, was on the prowl for evidence of the first modern humans to arrive on the continent.

But Jonathan Eisen, a microbiologist at the University of California, Davis, calls this «ludicrous,» after a NASA press release drew media attention with claims of an «astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life,» a theme that Wolfe - Simon echoed at the briefing.

The main objective is to search directly for evidence of life — which would make it the first NASA mission to do so since the Mars Viking landers in the 1970s.

We can search for evidence of cells preserved in rocks, or at a much smaller scale: compounds called biosignatures are molecular fossils, specific compounds that give some indication of the organisms that created them.

While the team peppers a subject with questions, audiotapes, pictures, and other sensory prods, an fMRI machine tracks brain activity to look for evidence of awareness and the possibility of establishing communication.

After that, the next step will be to measure more carefully the characteristics of the signal, searching for evidence of how inflation took place and how exactly the universe worked in its high - energy infancy.

«These ancient Martian flood plains would be great places to explore to search for evidence of past life.

She plans to look for evidence of them around young star systems, where the outer part of planets are hot and close to their stars.

So, when the scheduled proton - lead run took place in January and February, they searched the data for evidence of groups of four particles that exhibit collective motion.

The next step is to search for evidence of dielectric breakdown in PSRs and determine if it could happen in other areas on the moon.

Together they have explored Mars's equatorial region for evidence of water long since dried up.

By systematically colliding nuclei at a wide range of energies, physicists in RHIC's STAR collaboration are searching for evidence of a special point on their map of these nuclear phases and the transitions between them — the nuclear phase diagram.

The scientists — whose names are secret — plan to map the ice pack and the ocean floor beneath it, monitor patterns of ocean circulation and analyse water samples for evidence of pollution.

«This project looked for evidence of rapid adaptation in organisms in response to a changing ocean — and we found it.»

Fullagar predicts that the technique of examining the edges of tools for evidence of ancient food processing will allow study of other cases of early agriculture which do not leave archaeological clues such as mounds or seeds.

It spends much of its time monitoring the light from around 60 of the nearest ultracool dwarf stars and brown dwarfs («stars» which are not quite massive enough to initiate sustained nuclear fusion in their cores), looking for evidence of planetary transits.

Wet environments such as these combined with heat from volcanic processes, he added, may be prime locations to search for evidence of past life.

They will look for evidence of temperature changes caused by ocean circulation patterns in both the North Atlantic and tropical Pacific Oceans, which drive precipitation in Tibet as well as the Indian monsoons.

This is, in part, because investigators typically search for evidence of human trafficking using the same search engines that most people use to find restaurant reviews and gift ideas.