Sentences with phrase «of invisible»

The new discoveries were made with the help of the radial velocity method, which looks for the periodic shifts of certain spectral lines in a star's light that are caused by the gravitational tug of invisible planets which orbit the star.

«But it may also give us a greater understanding of the invisible ecosystems of microbial life that we know are all around us, but that we don't fully comprehend,» says Neal Grantham, a Ph.D. student in statistics at NC State and lead author of a paper on the work.

A series of groundbreaking studies have revealed that what we have always thought of as individuals are actually «biomolecular networks» that consist of visible hosts plus millions of invisible microbes that have a significant effect on how the host develops, the diseases it catches, how it behaves and possibly even its social interactions.

Because dark atoms would emit or absorb dark photons, the universe might be full of invisible, dark light that constantly interacts with clouds of dark atoms, raising their temperature and puffing them up.

Using methods such as single cell sequencing, proteomics, and microscopy will allow exploration of this invisible and important world with great accuracy and depth.»

John Nagy, author of Invisible Ink: Spycraft of the American Revolution, discusses the codes, ciphers, chemistry and psychology of spying in the American Revolution, in a talk recorded by podcast host Steve Mirsky at the historic Fraunces Tavern in New York City.

Mass - bearing neutrinos would also account for some of the invisible matter thought to hold galaxies and galaxy clusters together.

The shape of the cluster observed by the Subaru Telescope indicates the presence of a huge 3D web of invisible dark matter.

They can also help trace the amounts of invisible dark matter in the clusters, possibly giving a clue to how this mysterious substance behaves.

Most of the invisible inks we use now leave a residue behind as they become legible, so decrypting the message can be as easy as holding it up to a light.

To overcome the problem of invisible jamming, Sholes applied antiengineering principles with the goal of slowing down the typist and thus preventing the second bar from jamming the falling first bar.

«We identify the type and location of the source of the invisible attack as well as its duration as though we had a sixth sense.

Thus there could be thousands of invisible pulsars in our galaxy waiting to be discovered.

Another form of staph, Staphylococcus epidermidis, grows commonly in sheets of invisible biofilm on our skin, where it is normally benign.

The croak of thousands of invisible amphibians falls suddenly silent as the vets pass by on the way to Puntung's enclosure.

But the more we uncover, the more the mystery deepens: Every answer begets a question, as our uncharted exploration of the invisible proceeds.

So cosmologists believe that most of the mass of the Universe must be composed of invisible dark matter.

Stephen S. Hall is the author of Invisible Frontiers: The Race to Synthesize a Human Gene, an account of the birth of biotechnology, and five other books.

«I grasped the power of science, of the invisible.

Specifically, he looks at how dense spots of invisible dark matter suck in enough normal, gassy matter to create galaxies.

The facial muscles twitch and contort, as if pummeled by a hail of invisible darts.

Bird expert Henrik Mouritsen says night - migrating songbirds find their way northward using a combination of enhanced night vision and an internal compass that can sense and create a visual map of the invisible magnetic field surrounding the earth.

In this jam - packed double issue of Discover we present you with the wonders of the invisible planet in vivid detail.

The inexpensive method could be used as a type of invisible ink to hide information in otherwise normal - looking images, making it possible to distinguish between authentic and counterfeit items, for example.

Studies like these are the best current way to determine the shape, scale and distribution of this invisible material.

This and several other lines of evidence point to the existence of a mysterious form of invisible matter that exerts a gravitational influence on other matter and outweighs ordinary matter by a factor of about 6 to 1.

The EHT is so named because it will provide as close a look at a black hole as we can muster at this moment, carrying us virtually to the edge of the invisible boundary surrounding it — a spherical shell known as the event horizon.

The findings boost the leading theory of galaxy formation, called Lambda — Cold Dark Matter, which proposes that slow - moving clumps of invisible dark matter gravitationally capture visible matter and help shape it into galaxies.

A fair bit of the cosmos — 22 per cent of it, in fact — seems to be made of invisible dark matter, whose extra gravity helps to bind stars together in galaxies, and galaxies together in clusters.

The conservative opposition has promised to scrap the carbon price altogether if it takes power, with opposition leader Tony Abbott dismissing the ETS as a «so - called market in the non-delivery of an invisible substance to no - one».

Most large spiral galaxies, including our Milky Way, have a halo of invisible, or dark, matter surrounding the visible stars.

Here Vera Rubin and Kent Ford of the Carnegie Institution of Washington cataloged the rotations of spiral galaxies and discovered that the universe is full of invisible dark matter.

Rupert Sheldrake earned the righteous scorn of his fellow biologists for suggesting that pets communicate telepathically with their masters by way of invisible morphic fields.

Everyone assumed the stars were part of the giant halo of invisible matter that surrounds our Galaxy.

Reports on what can be done to warn pilots of this invisible threat

Call it the case of the invisible magnifying glass.

«We view this system as having the potential of an invisible, all - pervasive invasion of Americans» privacy,» says Don Haines, a lawyer working for the American Civil Liberties Union in Washington DC.

If so, large - scale supernova surveys could turn up more of these invisible lenses, helping astronomers find and put limits on the number of dark - matter dwarfs in the universe, Quimby and colleagues conclude.

Magnetars literally rip themselves apart, unleashing a blast of invisible but incredibly potent radiation in the process.

Determined, I set off to unravel the mystery of my invisible day.

The identity of the invisible stuff that holds galaxies together has long been a mystery.

She estimated they must contain about six parts of invisible matter for every one part of visible matter.

They have to assume that immense amounts of invisible matter surround all galaxies.

How do the demons of this invisible disease persist when no physical trace can be found?

MOND is the idea that the faster - than - expected motion of stars and galaxies, and galaxies in clusters, is caused not by the gravitational tug of invisible dark matter but by a modification of gravity or inertia not predicted by Newton.

One team compiled the largest map of dark matter to date by measuring bent light — an indicator for the presence of invisible dark matter.

Antiprotons streaming down on Earth from space could be hinting at the existence of the invisible substance, two teams of researchers suggest.

Despite the information gathered, most people would balk at the idea of being forced to listen to the hum and crackle of invisible fields all day.

The gamma rays might be a byproduct of decaying clumps of invisible dark matter, he says, or of something unknown.

Philip Diamond, an astronomer at Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, UK, says the motions of galaxies in the «Local Group» — the Milky Way's neighbouring galaxies — will reveal the pull of invisible dark matter in the region.