Sentences with phrase «of black scientists»

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.

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.

«We really did this to increase the number of black scientists, not to benefit Merck in particular.

In February, for example, the Amgen BEN held a youth summit to discuss the achievements of black scientists with local African - American students.

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).

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 thScientists 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 thscientists 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 withiScientists Association and its goals and objectives for scientists of color working withiscientists 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.