Luckily for me, I was living in Stanford's Ujamaa dorm — the de facto home of Stanford's Society
of Black Scientist and Engineers (SBSE).
In February, for example, the Amgen BEN held a youth summit to discuss the achievements
of black scientists with local African - American students.
«We really did this to increase the number
of black scientists, not to benefit Merck in particular.
While she was learning more about energy, Shelton was sharing her passion for science with others as a mentor with the Harvard Society
of Black Scientists and Engineers.
And television shows like Bones, MythBusters, and Cosmos, as well as blogs on the role
of black scientists and inventors, will show scientists of different genders and racial backgrounds, too.
Not exact matches
As they walked, the two
of them — Ibex's director and chief data
scientist — were on the phone with a client and in passing mentioned rare, so - called
black - swan events.
Because LIGO was able to detect two
of these gravitational wave events within its first few months
of running,
scientists are confident that these sorts
of black hole collisions are actually pretty common in our neighborhood.
Ask Peter Gabriel (The Guardian) •
Scientists Have Finally Detected Gravitational Waves, and They Reveal the Death Spiral
of Two Monster
Black Holes (Slate)
«I discovered along the way that the economists and social
scientists were almost always applying the wrong maths to the problems, what became later the theme
of the
Black Swan.
Stephen Hawking, the famed theoretical physicist whose work greatly contributed to
scientists» understanding
of black holes and cosmology, has died, his family said in a...
Snow covering the Andes mountains is as clean as the Canadian Arctic,
scientists said Friday after hundreds
of tests to determine the presence
of black carbon deposits or other pollutants.
This is understandably something that can seem a bit strange to those who have not been educated in fields
of science and advanced biology, and it is also why people who are not
scientists ought not try to explain the processes in simple
black - and - white terms.
Sir Isaac Newton, inventor and
scientist, Francis Schaefer, founder
of L'Abri and others, were fundamentalista well outside the
black and white.
Every day
scientists are finding
black holes with gas emmmiting from it containing signs
of life.
Scientists freely acknowledge the existance
of millions
of black holes.
I suspected when I first heard this claim that the Committee on the Status
of Black Americans, loaded as it was with social
scientists, had demolished a straw man, a bloodless construct so rigidly defined as to be meaningless in terms
of the actual lives
of the humans who inhabit the nation's ghettos and who, for the most part, make up what has come to be called the underclass.
With a mixture
of correctness and informality sometimes found in England today, a cleric -
scientist of the period is recorded to have met his guests in «an old russet cloth - cassock that had been
black in dayes
of yore, girt with an old leather girdle, an old fashion russett hat that had been a bever tempore Reginae Elizabethae.»
Scientists are even beginning to study loading tiny oral implants with
black raspberry powder that perform a consistent release
of phytonutrients over the course
of a month.
Outside
of the beer world,
Black Cow uses whey to produce its vodka while last year,
scientists in Singapore developed a new «sake - like» alcoholic beverage from the bi-products
of tofu called sachi.
He planned to put his education at their service in the spirit
of Iowa State's famous
black alumnus, the
scientist, botanist and inventor George Washington Carver.
As political
scientist Christina Greer told Politico last month, «Her campaign team clearly understands the importance
of black women and how they've been neglected by the Democratic Party writ large, not just by Andrew Cuomo, but at the state, local and national level.»
Stephen Hawking, a
black hole whisperer who divined the secrets
of the universe's most inscrutable objects, left a legacy
of cosmological puzzles sparked by his work, and inspired a generation
of scientists who grew up reading his books.
Scientists studying gravitational waves would likely benefit the most from further studies
of black holes hidden at the Milky Way's core.
Regardless
of how
scientists follow up this discovery, one way or another the result will be «pinning down the number
of black holes in the center
of a normal galaxy like the Milky Way,» Hailey says.
When the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO) made the first detection
of gravitational waves in 2015, for instance,
scientists were able to trace them back to two colliding
black holes weighing 36 and 29 solar masses, the lightweight cousins
of the supermassive
black holes that power quasars.
Scientists pinpointed the region in the sky where the two
black holes violently melded and kicked up swirls
of the spacetime ripples, locating their stomping grounds more precisely than ever before.
Libbrecht still does his fair share
of work on massive - scale science: He also works on the LIGO project, in which a few hundred
scientists are studying gravitational - wave signals from supernovae and
black holes.
With the Aug. 14 detection
of spacetime ripples,
scientists were able to home in on the location
of gravitational wave flinging
black holes more precisely than ever before, illustrated in lime green on a map
of the sky.
The increased sensitivity and improved resolution
of the EVLA will let
scientists peer deep into star - forming clouds and spy on protoplanetary disks
of dense gas surrounding young stars as well as track supernovae, fast - moving neutron stars and
black holes, McKinnon says.
As the
black holes drew near in a deepening pit
of spacetime, they also churned up that fabric, emitting gravitational radiation (or gravity waves, as
scientists often call them).
To uncover the underlying genetics
of this quintessential example
of natural selection, University
of Liverpool
scientists crossbred lines
of black and speckled moths.
In order to evaluate the assessment
of the low emission zone, the
scientists determined the reduction
of tailpipe emissions
of black carbon and ultrafine particles at a street - site by taking into account the concentrations measured in the urban background.
Scientists are also trying to figure out the role that aerosol particles — including a component
of soot known as
black carbon — play in influencing the behavior
of Himalayan glaciers.
The regularity
of the rippling acoustic pulses from the
black hole is what justifies the
scientists» use
of the word sound to describe the process.
'' [E] missions
of black carbon are the second strongest contribution to current global warming, after carbon dioxide emissions,» wrote Veerabhadran Ramanathan, a prominent climate
scientist at the Scripps Institution
of Oceanography, and Greg Carmichael, a professor
of chemical engineering at the University
of Iowa, in the April 2008 issue
of the journal Nature Geoscience.
In the center
of a distant galaxy, almost 300 million light years from Earth,
scientists have discovered a supermassive
black hole that is «choking» on a sudden influx
of stellar debris.
If
scientists can get a good handle on exactly how the thermal effects play out, they could steer a threatening asteroid into a safe orbit just by painting parts
of its surface
black (to absorb heat) or white (to reflect).
The flare was first discovered on Nov. 11, 2014, and
scientists have since trained a variety
of telescopes on the event to learn more about how
black holes grow and evolve.
A new study published in Physical Review Letters outlines how
scientists could use gravitational wave experiments to test the existence
of primordial
black holes, gravity wells formed just moments after the Big Bang that some
scientists have posited could be an explanation for dark matter.
New findings from an international research team led by University
of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
scientists may improve detection
of skin cancer that lacks any brown or
black color.
For the first time,
scientists worldwide and at Penn State University have detected both gravitational waves and light shooting toward our planet from one massively powerful event in space — the birth
of a new
black hole created by the merger
of two neutron stars.
Researchers at the University
of California, Davis, and in the Netherlands have discovered how a group
of three closely related fungal pathogens have evolved into a lethal threat to the world's bananas, whilst an international consortium led by
scientists from Wageningen UR (University & Research Centre) has unravelled the DNA
of the fungus that causes
black Sigatoka disease in bananas.
The two
black holes that spawned the latest waves were particularly hefty, with masses about 31 and 19 times that
of the sun,
scientists report June 1 in Physical Review Letters.
A computer simulation
of two
black holes merging into one created recently by
scientists at the University
of Texas and the Theoretical Astrophysics Centre in Copenhagen should provide them with a detailed idea
of what type
of gravity waves to expect.
Scientists may soon be able to tease out a faint signal of gravitational waves from black hole collisions too distant to be detected directly, scientists with LIGO, the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory, report in th
Scientists may soon be able to tease out a faint signal
of gravitational waves from
black hole collisions too distant to be detected directly,
scientists with LIGO, the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory, report in th
scientists with LIGO, the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory, report in the April...
When the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory, LIGO, glimpsed gravitational waves from two merging
black holes,
scientists were surprised at how large the
black holes were — about 30 times the mass
of the sun (SN: 3/5/16, p. 6).
Scientists will need more data to sort out how the
black hole duos form, says physicist Emanuele Berti
of the University
of Mississippi in Oxford.
Labenne owns seven pieces
of Black Beauty, the second most after Piatek, and has been a primary source
of material for
scientists in Europe.
Alfred Johnson writes about the NIH
Black Scientists Association and its goals and objectives for scientists of color working withi
Scientists Association and its goals and objectives for
scientists of color working withi
scientists of color working within the NIH.
Black - footed ferrets, a critically endangered species native to North America, have renewed hope for future survival thanks to successful efforts by a coalition
of conservationists, including
scientists at Lincoln Park Zoo, to reproduce genetically important offspring using frozen semen from a ferret who has been dead for approximately 20 years.