Sentences with phrase «of mysterious phenomena»

Specific to this nickel - bismuth system, such interfacial superstructures are the root cause of a mysterious phenomenon called «liquid metal embrittlement,» wherein a normally ductile nickel metal or nickel - based alloy can fail catastrophically in an extremely brittle manner in contact with a bismuth - based liquid metal.

The Aurorasaurus team, led by Liz MacDonald, a space scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, conferred to determine the identity of this mysterious phenomenon.

To get to the bottom of this mysterious phenomenon, the Guild has formed the Research Commission, dispatching them in large fleets to the World.

To get to the bottom of this mysterious phenomenon, the Guild has formed the Research Commission, dispatching them in large fleets to the New World.

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Physicist and author of «Storm in a Teacup: The physics of everyday life», Helen Czerski, explains the science behind this mysterious phenomenon.

The whole point of my post was to say that many, many such phenomena are dismissed as being some mysterious but material event, when it is clear there is not only a violation of physical laws, but that some kind of intelligence is involve in the violation.

After all, it is not to be doubted that the Old Testament, as also the popular view in the New Testament, regards the Spirit as a supernatural power, a kind of mysterious fluid, a «mana», to which it attributes all abnormal phenomena, including those of art and warfare.

We have seen that the divine origin of the Qur» an is attested by the mysterious phenomena which always preceded a revelation.

The Prophet's contemporaries were objective witnesses of the visible, tangible, and audible signs of the mysterious accompanying phenomena which made evident the real source of the Qur» an and opened the eyes of the truth - seekers.

We are aware that all material beings are composite, composed of atoms, that these particles are discrete within the continuity they integrate, that in themselves even they are miniature solar systems, and that these orbits are wide open spaces in relation to the miniature elementswhich are bound within them: bound and determined by the fixed laws that define the still mysterious phenomena of centrifugal and centripetal force.

Biologists do not agree about the mechanism of the continual disappearance of phyla in the course of geological time, a process almost as mysterious as that of their formation; but the reality of the phenomenon is indisputable.

Hence he claims that consciousness is no more mysterious than other emergent properties of natural functioning — it is a biological phenomenon (comparable with growth, digestion, or the secretion of bile), and «thus... part of the ordinary physical world» (MC 60).

When we look at it in this way, the problems of our world — internal and international conflicts, delinquency, terrorism, widespread violence — do not appear any more as strange and mysterious phenomena, due to the irrationality and wickedness of a few, but as the «logical» and foreseeable expression of an «unviable» family, organized in a perverse and self - destructive way;

In 2005, beekeepers in the United States began observing a mysterious and disturbing phenomenon: once - healthy colonies of bees were suddenly collapsing, leaving behind empty hives full of honey and pollen.

A perfect balance of weather conditions drives one of the natural world's most mysterious phenomena.

In the past decade, imaging studies have opened up the possibility that scientists will soon understand the mysterious phenomenon and even harness it in clinical practice — unleashing the power of, well, nothing.

Winter's got its own mysterious phenomenon: perfect circles of ice that slowly spin in place in the water.

It's a feature - length documentary about the «mysterious collapse» of the honeybee population across the planet — a phenomenon that has recently attracted a great deal of attention and hand - wringing.

However, newly published research suggests that mysterious phenomena called fast radio bursts could be evidence of advanced alien technology.

The serendipitous flybys of two satellites near a tropical thunderstorm have given researchers an unprecedented look at terrestrial gamma - ray flashes — a mysterious, high - energy phenomenon that scientists first observed in 1991.

In the late 1990s, astronomers noticed that the expansion of the universe is speeding up — a phenomenon they ascribed to a mysterious «dark energy» pushing our universe apart.

Astrophysicists using a telescope embedded in Antarctic ice have succeeded in a quest to detect and record the mysterious phenomena known as cosmic neutrinos — nearly massless particles that stream to Earth at the speed of light from outside our solar system, striking the surface in a burst of energy that can be as powerful as a baseball pitcher's fastball.

Although much remains to be learnt about these phenomena, the equations that govern them are now somewhat less mysterious in light of this new proof.

It is thought to have benefited us by allowing humans to explain mysterious phenomena and by bringing groups of people together.

The international group of scientists has provided a vital clue on how granular gases function and demonstrate this mysterious quality in a paper published in the journal, Nature Communications, where they have built a solid mathematical foundation of the phenomenon.

One example is the mysterious phenomenon of high - temperature superconductivity, in which electrons move around with no resistance inside a material.

One of the most mysterious phenomena in the universe, black holes are the subject as much debate as they are fascination for science...

Spirituality isn't just some mysterious, otherworldly phenomenon that only happens in a formal worship service; it's our life force, our energetic footprint in the world and our sense of connection with the big «All There Is.»

A luminescent wall known as «The Shimmer» — a mysterious phenomenon that resembles a cross between a forest fire and a lava lamp — has fallen over part of an unidentified coastal area, creating «Area X.» Several teams of explorers have been sent in to Area X to figure out what's going on, but only one person, Kane (Oscar Isaac), has returned alive.

A first - person sci - fi RPG, Strange Journey centers around unexplained phenomena at the southern pole of the Earth, and a team of specialists is sent into the heart of the mysterious, growing black void to find out what's going on.

The phenomenon is mysterious and terrifying at first, but soon it's become a weird kind of bond for the girls... all except Toni, who hasn't had «the fits» yet and is once again an outsider.

Developed by the creators of Tekken and Soul Calibur, Rise of Incarnates is a free - to - play fighting game set in a world on the brink of destruction, the population of which has been filled with perpetual fear by a mysterious phenomenon know as «cubephenomena».

When it comes to the movie part, though, an interesting phenomenon occurs: Because virtually everything we saw over the course of this year was conceived if not filmed before the 2016 election, the films arrived to us at a slight time lag, like the infinitely regressing mirror images of herself that The Last Jedi's Rey (Daisy Ridley) sees on her solo day trip to a mysterious and, I'll say it, frankly vaginal space - cave.

The film, which stars Natalie Portman, Tessa Thompson, Oscar Isaac, Gina Rodriguez, and others, is an adaptation of a heady, difficult scifi novel by Jeff VanderMeer about a group of scientists exploring a mysterious phenomenon.

Florence Foster Jenkins never attains the heights of Ed Wood — to me, maybe Tim Burton's best movie — when it comes to investigating the mysterious transhistorical phenomenon of the bad artist whose work nonetheless strangely compels.

One of his earliest films was Scott Hicks» 2001 drama «Hearts in Atlantis,» in which he played Bobby, an 11 - year - old boy who spends a fateful 1960 summer with a mysterious older neighbor who introduces him to a world of grown - up wisdom and (this being a Stephen King adaptation) eerie psychic phenomena.

Annihilation is about a mysterious quarantined zone which is full of creatures and landscapes that are mutating due to some alien phenomena.

The film follows an expedition into a mysterious zone called Area X. Lena (Portman), a biologist and former soldier, joins a mission to uncover what happened to her husband (Isaac) inside the zone — a sinister and mysterious phenomenon that is expanding across the American coastline, known as The Shimmer Once inside, the expedition discovers a world of mutated landscape and creatures, as dangerous as it is beautiful, that threatens both their lives and their sanity.

At one point the dad even rigs up digital cameras in all the rooms in their suburban home to see what is behind strange phenomena such as flocks of birds smashing into the house, mysterious marks appearing on their youngest kid's body, and so forth.

When failed concert promoter Uncle Sweetheart (John Goodman) asks down - on - his - luck folk singer Jack Fate (Dylan) about the importance of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin to American rock - and - lore, the inanity of the answer (and the evasiveness of Dylan's demeanour — «Well, it matters to someone, I guess») isn't mysterious so much as inane and disingenuous; even the evocation of social phenomena as important and galvanizing to roots rock and the inner city as the myth of Stagger Lee is tossed off with a wry flick of the hand.

Here's a recent example from The New York Times: «Samuel Ting, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Nobel laureate particle physicist, said Wednesday that his $ 1.6 billion cosmic ray experiment on the International Space Station had found evidence of «new physical phenomena» that could represent dark matter, the mysterious stuff that serves as the gravitational foundation for galaxies and whose identification would rewrite some of the laws of physics.»

So just in that chapter there is a little bit of sociology, a little of psychology and a little bit of history, all in aid of explaining a very common but mysterious phenomenon that we deal with every day.

And word - of - mouth, the mysterious phenomenon that every publisher counts on to make books big, is lubricated by low prices and seriously handicapped by high prices.

As part of the Guild's Research Commission, players must embark on a grand journey to this massive, mysterious land and uncover the secrets behind this phenomenon.

These following details are translated by Perfectly Nintendo... - Subaru Asato receives a mysterious package from an unknown sender - there's a book without a title, and a letter that says «You can not cut or burn this book» - when Subaru invites two friends to her place, and tries to burn the book, they find out that the person who sent the package lied: the book can be burned - when Subaru wakes up, she immediately notices the book she and her friends burnt the previous day is actually sitting by her bedside, as if it had never been burned - has a bad feeling about this strange phenomenon, but comes to the conclusion that it must have a been a prank by one of her friends - from that day, strange things start happening around Subaru and her friends - characters: Subaru Asato: a high - school student (3rd year), who receives a mysterious book.

On the continent of Vainqueur about a century ago, a mysterious phenomenon called «desertification» began encroaching from the western side of the continent, turning all land it reaches into sand.

With the city under the constant threat of Variants, the government has established a secret organization called the Code Physics Agency to investigate these mysterious phenomena.

Resounding (Infrared)(2013) locates first - hand reports from people who have seen or claim to have seen unidentified flying objects, mysterious lights in the sky and other unexplained phenomena within a mesmerising backdrop of sound frequencies and visual patterns translated from the Big Bang and other cosmic phenomena, linking cosmology, dreams and contemporary visionary experiences.

This large - scale enigmatic painting explores phenomena including the coexistence of day and night, the nocturnal landscape and the skyscape, and the interplay of lightness and darkness, evoking the mysterious quality embedded in Magritte's expressive art.

Ever since TreeHugger first started reporting on the mysterious honeybee deaths afflicting beekeepers worldwide, there have been countless suggestions of possible causes, and cures, for this worrisome phenomenon.