Sentences with phrase «old observations»

That year, a team led by radio astronomer Duncan Lorimer of West Virginia University in Morgantown accidentally found the first FRB by analyzing old observations of the 64 - meter radio telescope in Parkes, Australia.

In doing so, Catania has confirmed a 200 - year - old observation by famous 19th - century explorer and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt.

Researchers are rethinking century - old observations as they witness the unexpected and peculiar perils that are emerging from thawing Arctic permafrost

In some cases the text is not as up to date as you might expect and in the chapters on Jupiter and Saturn particularly, it seems that too much attention is paid to older observations carried out by telescopes that are fairly obviously inadequate.

A team led by Alfred Vidal - Madjar and Roger Ferlet of the Institute of Astrophysics in Paris has reanalysed old observations of the star β Pictoris and uncovered a mysterious fluctuation in the star's brightness that could be caused by a planet passing across its surface.

Digging through old observations of galaxies, astronomers have discovered X-ray flares from objects they can't yet identify

Fetterer — who recently wrote a guest article for Carbon Brief on piecing together a record of Arctic sea ice back to 1850 — also says the study highlights how important it is to find and preserve old observations:

We need to link up old observations and monitor the changes in things like currents and hydrography in these areas, to investigate if the observations are related to a real trend or shift or just an anomaly in the system.

Views on child raising are always evolving and changing with the times, as research and just plain old observation give experts — and parents — new perspectives on the best ways to both nurture and discipline children.

My impression is that one can have a well paid career in climate science never even understanding the 150 year old observation that a radiantly heated gray ball, however light or dark, will come to the same equilibrium temperature, Albedo is a fuzzy concept.

The news doesn't show that business leaders are unfit for government service, though it does illustrate the old observation that if they choose to serve, they'll probably be miserable.

Btw, our records are barely 50 years old in most cases, and those older observations were often flawed.

With his great desire to link hitherto separated realms, Einstein used botanist Robert Brown's old observation that small particles randomly jostle in a fluid to create statistical techniques for linking micro quantities, such as molecular mass, with macro quantities, such as overall temperature.

In new research published in PLoS Biology, a biomedical engineer at Washington University in St. Louis has a new interpretation for an old observation, debunking an established theory in the process.

An analysis of this new data, as well as a simultaneous analysis of decades - old observations, led to the planet's confirmation, published in Nature.

The French team rediscovered the old observations while studying β Pictoris with a telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile.

Observations taken with all our older observations are also present at CADC.

Extending William Schmidt's decade - old observation that the U.S. math curriculum is «a mile wide and an inch deep,» Schmidt and Richard Houang find evidence that coherence and focus have a substantial impact on math achievement.

Afterwards, she praised the process: «I like it better than the old observation,» she said.

The major difference between the old observations and the new is that in the new model, «the teacher does most of the talking,» Kolsky said.

Nochlin's decades - old observation that realism would increasingly mimic the hyperreal — the world as seen through a lens — and re-frame literal objects in subtle ways seems to hold true for Sherald's array of everyday people.

If you can run a model fro 1980 - 2000, you ought to be able to run it for 1910 - 1940... and, if it is any good, you will be able to show good agreement with the old observations.

Older observations are constantly added to the database, but there are still significant gaps in term of their spatial and temporal resolution.