Sentences with phrase «from grail»

Both of the Nature Climate Change studies used a combination of direct measurements of temperature at various depths, a measurement of the altitude of the top of the ocean (sea level) from highly accurate satellite instruments, and measures of the mass of the water in the ocean, from the GRAIL gravity research project.

Maps from the GRAIL spacecrafts reveal more large craters (big circles) and thinner crust (blue) on the moon's nearside (left) than on the farside (right), where the crust is thicker (red).

The original erroneously stated Illumina spun off from GRAIL.

The first results from the GRAIL gravity - mapping mission suggest that the crust's average thickness is only 30 kilometers, not twice that as Apollo seismometers estimated

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In a recent interview with Fast Company, co-founder and CEO Dennis Crowley explained this product is basically the holy grail of local discovery, and one that has the potential to turn Foursquare from a fun, though niche social check - in site, into a massive local data company.

For businesses, this is the Holy Grail and the highest stamp of approval: a word - of - mouth recommendation on Facebook, a creative meme that goes viral on Twitter, a thumbs up from a trusted Influencer.

Enrollment for me is the holy grail of marketing; it's a byproduct of knowing your customers» needs better than they do and approaching the process from an abundance mentality.

This was a yearlong spat in which Belafonte suggested that Bruce Springsteen is blacker than Jay and Beyonce, a diss that Jay answered on «Nickles And Dimes» from Magna Carta Holy Grail: «I'm just trying to find common ground / before Mr. Belafonte come and chop a nigga down.»

To borrow a line from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, it appears as though specialty retailing is «not dead yet».

Chad is the Black Knight from Python's Holy Grail.

Jesus Christ was either a Jew who became a Buddist monk in India or a Buddist monk from India (this is the Holy Grail!).

Ah, it's always a good day when the first thing I see is a paraprased song from «Monty Python And The Holy Grail»!

He is currently being sued in a British court by the authors of an earlier book, Holy Blood, Holy Grail, who claim that Brown stole the «architecture» of his story from them.

To put it crudely, (in the words of a famous line from Monty Python and the Holy Grail) I fart in their general direction.

In a world where baked goods are either made from wheat or from refined, nutrient - stripped substitutes, this recipe feels like the holy grail of gluten - free snacking.

It's a recipe, I learned, that he picked up from his girlfriend's mother, which takes water spinach (or kong xin cai) and sautes it until deeply emerald with smoky - sweet lap cheong sausage — my holy grail of smoked, preserved, almost certainly bad - for - you meats — and thin slices of fragrant garlic, then finishes it, in a neat little trick, with a few dollops of glossy teriyaki sauce to make the dish even more wonderfully savory.

Choose, but choose wisely: drinking from the false grail will turn your blood to iced tea and make Steve Patterson your athletic director.

(Indeed, because the impact forces that result in concussion vary from athlete to athlete, are likely affected by numerous variables, and indeed may change from moment to moment, game to game, and over time, it may be that such an impact threshold - appropriately labeled by some researchers as the concussion «holy grail» - will never be found.)

If you know you're going to love carrying your baby around right from birth, this carrier could be the one for you: it's best suited to younger ones as you can get a really snug fit and — the Holy Grail of carriers — if baby is asleep, simply detach their pod and lie them down

As much as baby gates are one of the best ways to prevent your child from accessing the stairs, they are definitely not the holy grail of baby proofing all stairs.

«Testing should not be the «Holy Grail» of our educational system but just one measurement out of a holistic set of ways to evaluate a child's development,» said Sen. James Tedisco, a Republican from the Albany area.

The holy grail of Foursquare from an organizational angle is to have a branded «badge» to manage, but this is not currently an advisable strategy (there are rumors of lengthy application delays and badges seeming to go exclusively to major corporate brands).

Mr. Stringer's plan earned plaudits on Monday from transit advocates like Gene Russianoff, who described a new commuter tax as «the holy grail on the revenue side.»

From his voracious reading, he knew that a blue - light - emitting semiconductor device was the holy grail of optoelectronics, and he resolved to get into the fray.

Evidence of three new basins comes from gravity data collected by NASA's GRAIL mission in 2012 (new basins circled in black, redder colors indicate a greater gravitational tug).

Maps of the moon generated from gravity data gathered by the GRAIL spacecraft include three previously undiscovered lunar basins, Bartels - Voskresenskiy, Copernicus - H and Asperitatis.

Now, a new subsurface moon map from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission, published today in Science, suggests that the answer is no.

The cortical circuit — the metaphor borrowed from computers to explain how the wiring of neurons realizes information processing — has long been a holy grail in neuroscience.

Four years ago, as GRAIL's two spacecraft neared the end of a 1 - year orbital mission with a planned crash into the lunar surface, they measured Orientale from a scant altitude of 2 kilometers.

Professor Ajit Lalvani from the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London, who led the study, said: «New strains of flu are continuously emerging, some of which are deadly, and so the Holy Grail is to create a universal vaccine that would be effective against all strains of flu.»

If the holy grail of medieval alchemists was turning lead into gold, how much more magical would it be to draw gold from, well, poop?

Camel caravans bearing silk from China and spices and gemstones from India all made their way through Petra, entering the city through a winding gorge that led to a spectacular cut - rock facade known as the treasury (which also starred as the home of the Holy Grail in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade).

The extraction of the tide from the LOLA data would have been impossible without the gravity model of the moon provided by the GRAIL mission,» said David Smith, the principal investigator for LRO's LOLA instrument and the deputy principal investigator for the GRAIL mission.

During the last several years, the degree of the lunar deformation caused by the tidal forces has been determined by several orbiters, for example, Kaguya from Japan, Chang «e-1 from China, and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) from the USA.

Their results are a significant step toward decoupling the cooling mechanism from the internal electronic structure — the «Holy Grail» of general molecular laser cooling.

«The source and sink of carbon from glacial to interglacial periods is the holy grail of oceanography,» says oceanographer Victor Smetacek of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany, who led the EIFEX expedition and was the lead author on a paper about it published online today in Nature.

In the past few months, researchers in the United States and Japan have described a promising way of deriving embryonic stem cells from skin cells (of mice) without destroying embryos — the «Holy Grail of biotechnology,» as The Times of London put it.

In a sign of the growing enthusiasm for the field, in March GRAIL, a company spun off from Illumina, raised $ 900 million in funding for this last application from investors including Amazon and several major pharmaceutical companies.

Maria Zuber, principal investigator for GRAIL, a mission to measure the Moon's gravitational field, used instrument designs from GRACE, an Earth - science mission with similar gravity - measuring goals, and adapted the spacecraft's design from that of a classified military satellite.

«Using solar energy to drive the production of liquid fuels such as gasoline from CO2 is one of the holy grails in renewable energy research.

Jay Melosh at Purdue University in Indiana and his colleagues were searching data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission for traces of underground lava tubes when they came across two large buried craters.

Large craters cover more of the moon's surface on its nearside than its farside, according to new maps from NASA's GRAIL spacecrafts.

Repeatedly I pressed them on the point of it all, on what, for a VLBI - er, was the shimmering grail that lit his daydreams and tugged him from bed on rainy mornings... and there didn't seem to be one.

«In the nuclear physics community, the holy grail is to see phase transitions in these high - energy interactions, and then determine the equation of state from the experimental data,» Wang said.

«The holy grail of depression epidemiology is that we want to intervene early to prevent people from having depressive episodes,» says social scientist Stephen Gilman of Harvard University, who was not involved in the study.

«The holy grail of this particular problem is to say, I've written down this chemical formula for a material, and then just from the formula be able to predict its structure — a goal since the dawn of chemistry,» said Garnet K. L. Chan, the A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at Princeton University.

More insight into the moon may come next year from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL), twin spacecraft that will orbit the moon and map its gravitational field in search of clues about its interior structure.

The holy grail for finding worlds beyond Earth that are hospitable to life has been planets just the right distance from their mother stars where liquid water can exist on the surface — the so - called «Goldilocks» zone.

The science community now looks to the challenges ahead, as well as the opportunities that will come from achieving what has been described as «the Holy Grail» of neuroscience.

Prof Ajit Lalvani from the National Heart and Lung Institute, who led the study, said: «New strains of flu are continuously emerging, some of which are deadly, and so the Holy Grail is to create a universal vaccine that would be effective against all strains of flu.»