Sentences with phrase «from nearby»

To the residents of Donora, Pa., a mill town in a crook of the Monongahela River, the daily haze from nearby zinc and steel plants was the price of keeping their families fed.

Changing the size of the beads alters how light scattered from nearby beads interferes, enhancing particular shades.

It will be 50 times more sensitive than current instruments and capable of spotting a television signal from a nearby star.

Researchers in Portland found that mosses from two neighborhoods had high levels of cadmium and arsenic, likely from a nearby glassmaking center.

Three projects currently read the timing of radio waves arriving from nearby pulsars: the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array in Australia, North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves and the European Pulsar Timing Array.

He saw the black hole's event horizon, the point beyond which nothing can escape; and an accretion disk, the gathering of matter siphoned from nearby stars.

These relics of ancient South Americans add to evidence from nearby sites challenging the longstanding view of Clovis people as the first Americans (SN: 8/11/12, p. 15), a team led by geochronologist Christelle Lahaye of the University of Bordeaux 3 and archaeologist Eric Boëda of the University of Paris X reports March 4 in the

This second stick, controlled via its own motor, uses a microphone and an accelerometer to sense the rhythm Barnes is playing, as well as music from any nearby musicians.

The local biotech community is beginning to flourish, largely because of local university research spin - offs and the supply of a highly skilled workforce from nearby Queen's University and St. Lawrence College.

The children receive novel, fun educational experiences from a nearby institution, presented by an experienced and enthusiastic scientist.

Early in 2003, company officials predicted that the Carthage plant, which will process guts, feathers, bones, and blood from a nearby ConAgra Foods Butterball Turkey slaughterhouse, would be cranking at full capacity that summer, making 500 barrels of high - quality fuel oil daily.

But Changing World Technologies» experience at Carthage — where the feedstock is tons of turkey parts from the nearby Con Agra Foods Butterball Turkey slaughterhouse — has yet to demonstrate the economics of biocrude.

They may be rare or completely absent from nearby spots, and they often are slow - growing and their numbers grow only in spurts.

Over four weeks in a parking lot of the California Institute of Technology, in Pasadena, Hayes analyzed air coming from nearby traffic - heavy Los Angeles, drawn through a tube in the roof of a modified construction trailer.

Such tags, costing just a few cents, carry a small, non-powered chip that, when hit by radio waves from a nearby «reader,» converts some of the radio energy into its own radio pulse in return.

They drove up Highway 1 from Santa Cruz, 30 miles to the south, cut through several feet of blubber, muscle, and bone, and scooped up the head with a front - end loader borrowed from a nearby lumber company.

Hebior is already entertaining a bid from a nearby museum but says, «I might try eBay if that doesn't work out.»

It could be a «microquasar» — a black hole feeding on gas from a nearby star — but the X-rays typically emitted from such objects are absent.

In Slavutich, we stop a group of gleaming schoolboys walking home from the nearby grammar school.

These opaque blobs resemble drops of ink floating in a strawberry cocktail, their whimsical shapes sculpted by powerful radiation coming from the nearby brilliant young stars.

Larger Bok globules in quieter locations often collapse to form new stars but the ones in this picture are under fierce bombardment from the ultraviolet radiation from nearby hot young stars.

They added sediment and plankton collected from a nearby pond to establish a small freshwater ecosystem in each tank.

Along with the region's significance to birdlife and other species come threats from nearby development.

To process the last 100,000 colonies, Lundblad brought in 12 undergrads from nearby Rice University to set up cultures one weekend.

These globules are under fierce bombardment from the ultraviolet radiation from nearby hot young stars.

UNC has brought in venture capitalists, patent lawyers, biomedical entrepreneurs, and others from nearby Research Triangle Park to help faculty and students turn their ideas into commercial enterprises.

Excess antielectrons aren't from nearby dead stars, study says.

Stone tools like flint knives and ground stone axes and pottery have been recovered from nearby Cornish Barrows, but gold objects and ornaments of exotic material were also occasionally deposited in them.

A new influx of metalrich dust to the solar system, perhaps from a nearby supernova, would have augmented isotopes in the outer asteroids but not the inner ones.

But more mundane explanations are also plausible: Positrons might be spewed from nearby pulsars, the spinning remnants of exploded stars, for example.

Scientists estimate the monolith weighs about 15 tons and was cut as a single stone from a nearby quarry more than 10,000 years ago.

«If the cosmos had been expanding rapidly, the redshifts of distant supernovae would be more pronounced when compared to the light emanating from nearby supernovae.

Jüttner, Beller says, told him not to worry about T. auensis and suggested that he could probably find a similar organism doing the same thing in anoxic sediments from any nearby lake.

All four main candidates attended an unpublicised Armistice Day service at 11 am on the outskirts of the constituency, along with children from a nearby primary school.

The two lawmakers discussed their legislation Friday at the state Capitol and were joined by five police dogs from nearby departments.

Dave Ciccone, an accountant from nearby Frankfurt, wore a new Trump T - shirt to the rally and said he'll vote for Trump on April 19.

Ampry - Samuel canvassed during rush - hour traffic along with prominent politicians in the community, including Congressional Rep. Yvette Clarke, the wizened former Rep. Edolphus Towns, and childhood friend Latrice Walker, still an Assembly member from nearby.

The CEO, Hyde said, was extremely impressed, especially because Hyde could offer power at just 3.5 cents per kilowatt hour from nearby hydropower plants.

Further, it alleviates Aqueduct's concern with facing slots competition from nearby Belmont Park, the racetrack where Nassau recently proposed to use for slots.

Since its inception, the casino has received pushback from nearby Finger Lakes Gaming and Racetrack in Farmington and Turning Stone Casino in Verona.

In response Rae announced a buy - near provision which will ensure that materials are obtained partly from nearby suppliers.

Safely inside the shelter, King said they were able to see Israel's famous Iron Dome defense system blow up the Hamas rocket fired from nearby Gaza before it could do any damage.

The mayor also conducts his weekly radio appearances with Brian Lehrer, the WNYC host, from nearby — occasionally in his gym clothes.

Her family now lives in Hoosick Falls, where the municipal water has since had filters installed to block PFOA contamination that was likely coming from the nearby Saint - Gobain plant in the village.

Others worried about services for the homeless population already in the area, saying that men from a nearby shelter are often seen roaming public housing buildings during the day.

Ecology and Environment will test soils and beach floor sediment at least 10 - feet deep and determine if any dangerous substances are entering the water from a nearby stormwater drain south of the beach.

A second, located at 1173 Bergen St., has been blocked from opening by a Brooklyn judge following a lawsuit from nearby residents who say the neighborhood is oversaturated with shelters.

The problems experienced in Hoosick Falls — where many residents have been found to have high levels of PFOA in their blood, likely from nearby manufacturing plants — appear to be just the tip of the iceberg.

WAMC's Southern Adirondack Bureau Chief Lucas Willard reports the developer pulled a proposal that faced opposition from some nearby residents.

Another popular Democrat who could jump into the race is Assemblyman John Burzichelli (D - Gloucester), although he would have to move into the district from nearby Paulsboro.