Sentences with phrase «nuclear scientists used»

Nuclear scientists using frogs in a battle against superbugs might sound like some kind of 1980s computer game — but it's actually scientific research underway right now.

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The «cosmic ray test» was developed by Silas Beane, a nuclear physicist at the University of Washington, and involves scientists building up a simulation of space using a lattice or grid.

However, even they have their limits, and when they discovered that scientists at a top secret nuclear facility were using the supercomputers to mine...

because it was scientists that created the Nuclear bomb, in fact it was science that created all weapons... so by your logic, Science is to blame for the Death of EVERY human being in Warfare throughout time except for those killed by rocks and sticks that are unsharpened and / or killed by use of barehands... Science has slaughtered BILLIONS...... of course that's nonsense right?

2016: Kurt Godfried — Dr. Gottfried, a recognized leader in the scientific community on missile defense and nuclear terrorism who was among the founders of the Union of Concerned Scientists, was honored for his long and distinguished career as a «civic scientist,» through his advocacy for arms control, human rights, and integrity in the use of science in public policy making.

The goals are to preserve the films» content before it's lost forever, and provide better data to the post-testing-era scientists who use computer codes to help certify that the aging U.S. nuclear deterrent remains safe, secure and effective.

When asked why this project is so important to him, he voiced the dominant perspective among weapon scientists at LLNL: He doesn't want nuclear weapons to be used and passionately believes the key to ensuring they aren't is to making sure the U.S. stockpile continues to be an effective deterrent.

Their fundamental discoveries may aid research into the management of nuclear waste, by helping scientists understand how chemicals can be used to separate the most radioactive elements.

Scientists are also investigating the possibility of using high - temperature nuclear reactors to make hydrogen for fuel cells.

Manchester scientists have revealed how arsenic molecules might be used to «fish out» the most toxic elements from radioactive nuclear waste — a breakthrough that could make the decommissioning industry even safer and more effective.

Livermore scientists will dismantle Nova — used primarily for experiments that probe the subtleties of nuclear weapons explosions — in May to make way for the 192 - beam National Ignition Facility.

Nuclear transfer — used to clone Dolly and now owned by Geron — may help scientists develop more potent stem - cell therapies

In May 2013, Mitalipov was the first scientist in the world to demonstrate the successful use of somatic cell nuclear transfer, or SCNT, to produce human embryonic stem cells from an individual's skin cell.

Using a compact but powerful laser to heat arrays of ordered nanowires, CSU scientists and collaborators have demonstrated micro-scale nuclear fusion in the lab.

Using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, two teams working with the Göttingen - based scientists Markus Zweckstetter and Stefan Becker have now shown the complex three - dimensional structure of the protein «at work» in atomic detail.

Some scientists, such as Kevin Eggan at Harvard, were disappointed that NIH didn't open the door to the use of embryos created for research purposes — including through somatic cell nuclear transfer (cloning) and parthenogenesis (from an unfertilized egg).

In order to detect the individual motions of proteins, the scientists used a spectroscopic technique called nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), which exploits the magnetic properties of certain atoms like hydrogen and carbon.

Scientists have used the NASA Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), an orbiting X-ray telescope, to capture an extreme and rare event in the regions immediately surrounding a supermassive black hole.

Part of the rationale for building NIF was that weapons scientists could use it to validate simulations of nuclear explosions and so keep the country's nuclear stockpile safe and working properly.

Plutonium has long been part of many countries» nuclear energy strategies, but scientists are still unlocking the mysteries behind this complicated element and seeing how they can use heavier, nuclear elements to clean up nuclear waste.

The solution used a new theory based on fluid flow and will help scientists in the quest to create gases with temperatures over a hundred million degrees and harness them to create clean, endless, carbon - free energy with nuclear fusion.

Many of these scientists and engineers, often using money out of their own pocket, have been less concerned about commercial opportunities but rather have focused on basic science: electrochemistry, metallurgy, calorimetry, mass spectrometry, and nuclear diagnostics.

In Changing Faces of Astronomy, we meet two scientists from astronomy's next generation: UCLA's Andrea Ghez, who studies star formation and galactic black holes, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory's William Raphael Hix, who uses his computational expertise to build collaborations in the study of theoretical nuclear astrophysics.

Now, a team of scientists of the University of Cambridge, the UK Met Office and CIMMYT (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre) have adapted modelling systems previously used to forecast, ash dispersal from erupting volcanoes and radiation from nuclear accidents (NAME), to predict when and how Ug99 and other such strains are most likely to spread.

More than 50 years later, scientists have found a way to use radioactive carbon isotopes released into the atmosphere by nuclear testing to settle a long - standing debate in neuroscience: Does the adult human brain produce new neurons?

In a paper published in the Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, Michigan State University researchers from the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics and the College of Education used an MSU program as a case study for why these programs are key to training tomorrow's generation of scientists.

During the 511th Brookhaven Lecture, Libby McCutchan discusses the National Nuclear Data Center, the mysterious neutrino, and how she and other scientists are using sophisticated databases to shed light on neutrinos for big questions not yet answered.

The Congress, Co-sponsored by the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) and Johns Hopkins Medicine, welcomed physicians, chemists, physicists, technologists, and all scientists and clinicians interested in translational research and current state - of - the - art molecular imaging using Ga - 68 PET radiopharmaceuticals and radionuclide therapy.

Clark's new techniques using capillary electrophoresis and microchip technology may allow for real - time field screening of plutonium and other materials by nuclear proliferation investigators and forensic scientists at the Department of Homeland Security.

Scientists demonstrate scenarios for using neutrino detectors in nuclear interim storage facilities...

Lab electrical engineer Rebecca Nikolic leads a team of LLNL engineers and scientists, including electrical engineer Adam Conway (left) and postdoc John Murphy, which is developing a hand - held thermal neutron detector that could be used to locate nuclear materials.

Designed and developed by a team of nuclear physicists led by senior scientist Howard Wieman at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, now retired, the HFT is the first silicon detector at a collider that uses a technology found in digital cameras called monolithic active pixel sensor technology.

Scientists routinely create models of proteins using X-ray diffraction, nuclear magnetic resonance, and conventional cryo - electron microscope (cryoEM) imaging.

The electron spin, which is less resilient to electromagnetic stimulation than the nuclear spin, was used as a processing qubit that the scientists used to read and write data.

SCIENTISTS at the University of Huddersfield have been using world - class new facilities to carry out experiments that could aid the development of nuclear fusion reactors, widely regarded as the «Holy Grail» solution to future energy needs.

Using this type of NMR, which is based on a technique known as dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP), scientists can gain much more insight into protein structure and function than they can with current NMR technology, which requires large quantities of purified proteins, isolated from their usual environment.

Scientists in China successfully cloned the first - ever primates using the same method that created the world's most famous sheep — a method called somatic cell nuclear transfer.

In a nutshell, Solid Snake infiltrates a nuclear disposal facility on Shadow Moses Island in Alaska, discovers a plot to use a new type of nuclear - equipped walking battle tank, fights a series of almost supernaturally gifted bosses, rescues a scientist and a fellow soldier and stops his evil twin brother from launching a nuke, preventing an all out nuclear war and unearthing information about his genetic legacy in the meantime.

To illustrate this, could you imagine if during the effort to convince the U.S. government to embark on the Manhattan Project, the word «physics» was hardly ever used by the advocates of atom bomb development (who were simply known in this alternate reality as «nuclear * scientists *»), to such an extent that many well - placed non-physicists didn't even realize that the claims of destructive power were based on it?

March 13, 12:43 p.m. Relevant tweets appended A group of scientists and energy analysts has laid out a path under which New York State could, in theory, eliminate its use of fossil fuels and nuclear power — including for transportation — by 2050.

On Thursday, four veteran climate scientists drew a crowd at a news conference focused on one of many daunting paths to a low - carbon energy future — boosted use of nuclear power (video).

Most scientists agree that we can reduce our carbon emissions over time by using everything from solar energy to carbon sequestration, from windmills to nuclear power plants, from hybrid autos to those powered by fuel cells.

This work is already underway: last week our coalition of scientists, scholars and conservationists sent an open letter to President - elect Donald Trump, urging him to save the nukes, and use nuclear to revitalize the manufacturing industry at home while reducing energy poverty abroad.

Even if we assume that a mathematician, nuclear engineer, or veterinarian should qualify as a «scientist,» using the OISM's own criteria produces over 10.7 million «scientists» who have graduated from US universities since 1970.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is a prestigious journal, established in 1945 to warn the public about the consequences of using nuclear weapons.

Clean Energy Technologies Can Return CO2 to Safe Levels This Century Though current atmospheric carbon dioxide levels of about 385 parts per million are already above the revised safe level of 350ppm being promoted by scientists, Kharecha said that it is still possible to return them to safe levels by the end of this century if we engage in «Herculean» efforts to shift towards renewable energy sources, increase the use of nuclear power, and apply carbon sequestration technologies on existing coal power plants.

Instead, the scientists call for an increased use of nuclear power to meet the worlds» growing energy needs.

Scientists and students led by the University of Colorado Boulder and Rutgers University are calculating the environmental and human impacts of a potential nuclear war using the most sophisticated scientific tools available.

some words of wisdom from Dr James Hansen Feb 2014 — regarding Nuclear power and «merchants of doubt» — eg «Climate scientists have long warned of potential catastrophic effects of unchecked fossil fuel use.»

After the development of the first nuclear weapons, scientists from a variety of disciplines appealed to world leaders to «remember your humanity, and forget the rest» and end the threat of use of nuclear weapons.