Sentences with phrase «of nearby»
A study of the nearby Shiprock area found increased birth defects near uranium sites, suggesting a wider trend.
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«When a rearrangement happens, the softnesses of the nearby particles all change,» Durian said, «but, due to long - range elastic couplings, so can the softnesses of particles even quite far away, as illustrated by this data.
Other recent discoveries of nearby Earth - sized planets have been around red dwarf stars, including TRAPPIST - 1 and Proxima Centauri, but these create less favorable conditions for life.
It also integrates a wealth of other information, including the positions of nearby rangers, vehicles and aircraft, as well as detected gunshots, camera trap feeds, arrest and crime - scene records, weather, and more.
Even when autonomous vehicles are doing everything they're supposed to, the drivers of nearby cars and trucks are still flawed, error - prone humans
They also estimated IQ for another 104 countries by averaging the IQs of nearby nations.
Enhancers are sequences in the genome that act to boost or «enhance» the activity or expression of nearby genes.
BOSTON — Astronomers have produced the most complete 3D map of the nearby universe to date.
Both papers offer new evidence that eRNAs significantly contribute to enhancer activity, and therefore to expression of nearby genes.
Looking out the window of her New York University office recently, Glennys Farrar saw something familiar to any New Yorker: wooden tanks of water on the roofs of nearby buildings.
The system was robust and not affected by electromagnetic waves from nearby mobile phones or from the motion of nearby steel objects.
The dense core of a nearby collapsed star is undergoing a rapid chill, providing the first direct evidence that such stars can produce a superfluid of neutrons — a state of matter that can not be created in laboratories on Earth.
That suggested that the gravity of the nearby galaxies had bent and magnified the light from the more distant, dusty galaxies.
But I went to visit the geology department of nearby Panjab University.
«Using this approach the mountaineer would climb to the top of a nearby hill, but there he would be stuck.»
Lauer and his colleagues began their survey of galaxy clusters in order to find the «great attractor», a concentrated mass supposedly responsible for the net motion of nearby galaxies.
In addition, increased fires not only kill trees directly, but the heat generated literally sucks the moisture out of nearby trees that have survived.
Some cataclysmic event in Mira's past, perhaps the explosion of a nearby star, sent it rocketing through space at 80 miles per second.
Based on the age of nearby rocks, the scientists estimate that the Arktocara fossil comes from the late Oligocene epoch, around the time ancient whales diversified into two groups — baleen whales (mysticetes) and toothed whales (odontocetes).
Kennewick Man, named after Kennewick in Washington state, was discovered in July 1996 after more than 9000 years buried in the banks of the nearby Columbia river.
Bower says his team next will be taking more precise measurements of nearby low - mass stars to detect the telltale wobble in their motion that reveals orbiting extrasolar planets.
Gough Island might have been largely uninhabited by humans, but 50 years later, residents of nearby islands raised questions about the unusually vicious mice that now roam the island (50 per cent heavier than wild mice anywhere in the world) and devastate the bird population.
They grew only slowly at first — adding just 1 percent to their bulk in the next 200 million years — because the hyperactive stars that spawned them had blasted away most of the nearby gas that they could have devoured.
This neutron - multiplying ability of lithium was discovered in 1954, when the Castle Bravo H - bomb test on Bikini Atoll produced twice the expected yield, with consequences for the islanders of nearby Rongelap among others.
The cloud may even be much closer than most astronomers think and be part of the debris of a nearby supernova.
Until we have a CCD survey of the whole sky, which is not going to happen anytime soon, we really can't be confident that we have a good sample of nearby galaxies, says Bothun.
When the crust is damaged, dust storms well up, residents of nearby communities develop hacking coughs, snow melts early and a whole array of untoward consequences ensue.
There appear to be more far - off galaxies only because astronomers have been missing most of the nearby ones — the ones that contain so few stars that they are intrinsically dim.
The Observatory keeps a close watch not only on the Mount Vesuvius, but also on the volcanoes of the nearby regions of Campi Flegrei and the Island of Ischia.
The ultraviolet light of nearby massive stars evaporates the disk and then reveals protoplanets [planet embryos].
Gabriel Bihain and Ralf - Dieter Scholz have taken a careful look at the distribution of nearby known brown dwarfs from a point of view that was not looked at before.
When re-analysing catalogued and updated observational data of brown dwarfs in the solar neighbourhood, astronomers from Potsdam have found that a significant number of nearby brown dwarfs should still be out there, awaiting their discovery.
To find a light source for the cloud, astronomers turned to NASA's Swift satellite to look for X-ray evidence of nearby energy sources.
«Three planets in habitable zone of nearby star: Gliese 667c reexamined.»
Maria Braga, DDS, PhD, and colleagues at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, found that activating ASIC1a decreased the activity of nearby cells and reduced anxiety - like behavior in animals.
That could now change thanks to a plan to combine the unused potential of groups of nearby phones, creating clusters capable of everything from weather modelling to Wi - Fi cracking.
This 206 dipped me between mountains for an astounding view of the nearby Casement and Davidson glaciers.
And the mysterious 2000 - year - old, distinctly Caucasian - looking «blond mummies» of nearby Western China, and an extinct European language from the same area, suggest migrations in the opposite direction.
But even the most powerful telescopes of the time could detect Cepheids only in a handful of nearby galaxies.
Extreme and irregular variations in the brightness of a nearby brown dwarf suggest the star's atmosphere is wracked with storms.
Previous Konza research has shown that bison do not spend significant time near stream areas, so they may not influence the growth of nearby trees and shrubs, Veach said.
The only «highly suitable» regions are Florida and portions of nearby states to the west, including coastal regions of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas.
My guess is that the faculty of a nearby university get together during the tea break to come up with answers to Last Word questions.
The rector asked the national education ministry to pay for the effort, «but already the mayor of a nearby local authority had stated that the council would be happy to contribute towards the expenses,» the article continues.
We've basically ruled out 10 percent of the nearby stars as being like our solar system, but the other 90 percent could be just like us, and we wouldn't know it yet.
FIM also receives updates on the flight speeds of nearby aircraft, derived from GPS signals.
Botelho and collaborators believe that early maturation at the lower end of the fibula occurs because of the influence of a nearby bone in the ankle, the calcaneum.
As detailed in this video, Laniakea's discovery emerged from measurements of galactic positions and velocities that reveal how galaxies are moving in relation to concentrations of nearby matter and the universe's overall expansion.
The first Terrestrial Planet Finder mission will take optical images of nearby stars and essentially put a thumb over the star itself to block the light and see the dim planet.
A lot of people think that 10 percent of nearby stars have Earth - like planets close enough to their stars to have liquid water, but it could be 1 percent or even lower.