Sentences with phrase «radio science for»

«Supporting Cassini radio science for the mission's Grand Finale requires not only teamwork at ESA, but also deep collaboration between the agencies,» says ESA's Thomas Beck, responsible for ground station services.

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«There's a lot more science behind [programming for the radio] than people think,» Poleman says.

But Al - Khalili is best known for his role as a populariser of science on the airwaves, regularly hosting The Life Scientific on BBC Radio 4, in which he explores the lives of notable scientists.

On Radio Ulster he affirmed that science «uses our capacity for fai...

She has also lectured for science organizations like the American Association for the Advancement of Science as well as appearing on television shows such as Nova and NPR radio prscience organizations like the American Association for the Advancement of Science as well as appearing on television shows such as Nova and NPR radio prScience as well as appearing on television shows such as Nova and NPR radio programs.

This week on Mom Talk Radio, Dr. Vanessa Lapointe, author of Discipline Without Damage: How to Get Your Kids to Behave Without Messing Them Up, shares how she unpacks the science of neurological development for readers.

Judging the entries were Bob Goldman of Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, Robert Krulwich, science correspondent for National Public Radio, Dave Mosher, science and technology correspondent for Business Insider, and Clare Waterman, of the Laboratory of Cell and Tissue Morphodynamics at the National Institute of Health.

For 10 weeks during the summer, the AAAS Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellows collaborate with media professionals at radio and television stations, newspapers, and magazines.

Overview: Science for the People is a syndicated radio show and podcast based in Edmonton, Alberta, that broadcasts weekly across North America.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is in the process of transforming its Very Large Array radio telescope into the — wait for it — Expanded Very Large Array, thanks to digital technology that will boost the Socorro, N.M., facility's already impressive ability to tune in on black holes, supernovae and the rest of the deep space menagerie.

For Dr. Bernie Fanaroff, a distinguished radio astronomer who until 2015 led South Africa's SKA Project and currently acts at the project's strategic adviser, science diplomacy is paramount.

The border - jumping Ebola outbreak and development of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope prove science diplomacy is essential for Africa and beyond.

For a while I worked in science radio at the BBC World Service before joining a science and IT magazine.

Although some of my research focuses on the development of nanoelectronic devices for life science applications (as well as for telecommunications and radio astronomy), most of my research efforts are based on the use of microfluidic chips (MFCs) with molecular biology.

Rami Tzabar, development editor for BBC Radio Science and World Service, called the story «a forensic analysis of everything that is wrong with current (and past) attitudes to flooding, an innate misguided belief that every major event is a freak of nature and that we can engineer our way out of the problem whilst largely ignoring the cause.»

Perhaps most important were six runs maximized for Cassini's radio science experiment.

It seems obvious that if a species has the brainpower for speech, along with the sort of appendages that can manipulate a pair of pliers, it will eventually blunder into science, technology, and radio.

He helped formulate the concept of seeking alien civilizations by listening for their radio broadcasts; he lobbied for nuclear disarmament, believing that atomic power should be wielded only for constructive effect; and he helped Charles and Ray Eames create Powers of Ten, perhaps the most stunning science movie ever filmed.

He regularly presents science and engineering programming for BBC and frequently writes and presents radio programs on a diverse array of subjects.

She's won a number of national awards for her radio documentaries, including the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award, and is the co-host of the food science podcast GasScience Journalism Award, and is the co-host of the food science podcast Gasscience podcast Gastropod.

But since January 2009, Ari Daniel Shapiro — he uses his middle name to avoid confusion with the Ari Shapiro who reports for NPR on the Department of Justice and legal affairs — has earned his living as an independent radio and multimedia producer, recording sounds, editing audio, and doing all the things necessary to create science - related radio shows for public radio and podcasts and audio slide shows for the Web sites of research institutions.

«It's tragic that we now have a scientifically very interesting mission without an option of really flying it,» says Michael Grewing of the Institute for Millimeter Radio Astronomy in Grenoble, France, chair of ESA's Space Science Advisory Committee.

«Big science needs a lot of compute power — right now we're designing systems to manage data for several large facilities around the world and the next generation of radio telescopes, including China's 500m radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array and the SKA's pathfinder telescopes that are already up and running in outback Western Australia.»

Other members of the team are the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, a facility of the National Science Foundation operated under a cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc.; West Virginia University; McGill University in Montreal, Canada; and the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy.

«We decided to do it a month early because there was a juxtaposition of two conferences in Liverpool at that time, one by the Institute of Electronic Engineers and the other by the International Union of Radio Science,» explains David Bamber, a spokesman for the university.

Back on Earth, the mission operations team at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (which built the spacecraft and operates the mission for NASA) along with the Flight Software (FSW) and Radio Frequency (RF) Teams, have recently made some improvements in getting the science teams more data.

First, it can be used for practical purposes;, also there is a theoretical part, which is about fundamentally better understanding these phenomena,» said Tibor Durgonics who is a Ph.D. student at DTU Space and the main author of the new article in Radio Science.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has decided to award a 5 - year contract for the facility, home to the largest radio telescope in the world, to a consortium comprising SRI International, the Universities Space Research Association, Universidad Metropolitana, and other institutions.

An innovative new methodology for assessing the effect of space weather on radio signals in the ionosphere has been published in the journal Radio Sciradio signals in the ionosphere has been published in the journal Radio SciRadio Science.

One year after a controversial recommendation to cancel its National Science Foundation (NSF) funding, the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, the world's largest fully steerable radio telescope, is searching for new partners to help support its $ 10 - million annual operating costs.

Previous winners of the Public Service Award for a group include National Public Radio's Science Desk, The Exploratorium, and the television drama, NUMB3RS.

«The opportunity for these projects to use significant time on the world's best scientific instruments is occurring in part because of the limitations in government funding for these facilities,» Worden says, noting that flat or shrinking NASA and National Science Foundation budgets for astronomy have left the Parkes and Green Bank radio telescopes — as well as many other observatories — scrambling for new sources of financial support.

In order to qualify for participation in the Star Tiger programme, applicants should have experience in one or more of the following research areas: lithography, microelectromechanical systems fabrication, radio frequency (RF) system design, optical and RF photonic bandgap design, test and measurement, charge - coupled device imaging, packaging / micro / self - assembly, mechanical design, materials sciences, solid state physics, or general physics.

Radio and television have put on special series of programmes, and there is even a «helpline» for people who want to ask questions on science.

Gerard Baumgart and four colleagues from the French conservation charity Patrons of Science and Art followed two bugged toads with a hand - held radio antenna day and night for the whole week.

«The NSF now insists that we do commercial, non — peer - reviewed science so they can divest — and show positively that Arecibo no longer does mainstream radio astronomy and is thus unworthy for NSF investment.

The science ministry oversees more than a dozen research centers, while the communications ministry is responsible for managing concessions for radio, television, and internet.

Funding for astronomy is far more limited than that available for cancer research, say, and compared with most other fields of science, the number of professional astronomers is astonishingly small (the membership of the American Astronomical Society would just about fit into Radio City Music Hall).

The problem has been compounded by the Institute for Creation Research's use of the name «Lucy» to refer to both the species Australopithecus afarensis and the individual «Lucy,» as ICR Museum director John Rajca did on the June 18, 1994 segment of the ICR's «Science, Scripture and Salvation» radio program.

The repeating bursts from this object, named FRB 121102 after the date of the initial burst, allowed astronomers to watch for it using the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), a multi-antenna radio telescope system with the resolving power, or ability to see fine detail, needed to precisely determine the object's location in the sky.

CRAF - Committee on Radio Astronomy Frequencies and Expert Committee of the European Science Foundation (ESF)- meets on May 3 - 5, 2017 at the Max - Planck - Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn and discusses how to keep radio astronomical observations free of interferRadio Astronomy Frequencies and Expert Committee of the European Science Foundation (ESF)- meets on May 3 - 5, 2017 at the Max - Planck - Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn and discusses how to keep radio astronomical observations free of interferRadio Astronomy in Bonn and discusses how to keep radio astronomical observations free of interferradio astronomical observations free of interference.

I think James Gunn, the author of the 1972 science fiction novel «The Listeners» about radio astronomy and the search for other life in the universe, said it well: «It may be that there is no one out there or if there is someone out there he will never speak to us or we to him, but our listening is an act of faith akin to living itself.

The scientists who conducted the study include University of Chile astronomers Andrés Guzmán (principal researcher), Guido Garay (Astronomy Department Director), Leonardo Bronfman, and Diego Mardones, as well as Luis Rodríguez (UNAM Center for Radio Astronomy and Astrophysics), James M. Moran (Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), Kate Brooks (Center for Astronomy and Space Science, CSIRO - Australia) and Lars - Ake Nyman (Joint ALMA Observatory).

Water Emissions - In September of 2002, a team of astronomers (including Cristiano Cosmovici of the Institute for Cosmic and Planetary Science) announced at the Second European Workshop on Exo / Astrobiology that they had detected water «maser» emissions from three of 17 star systems suspected of hosting planets, including Upsilon Andromedae, using the 32 - meter Medicina radio telescope near Bologna.

My substantial broadcast experience includes appearances on radio and TV with the BBC, the ABC (Australia), various commercial stations, and acting as science adviser for an Emmy - winning documentary.

Hasegawa: To make our budget request for ALMA, we explained our simulation to the government agency saying that ALMA is capable of taking more accurate astronomical images that have never been possible with existing radio telescopes, and also telling that ALMA will make great contributions to science.

The Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz (FHNW) invites applications for a postdoctoral research position in Heliophysics to work on the project «A new perspective on particle acceleration on the Sun: Solar Flare radio observations with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array», funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

78 world - leading experts in their area of astronomical research scientifically evaluated the 1,381 proposals received for Cycle 2 Early Science observations with the radio telescope, which represent a demand of more than 7.000 hours of observation.

Using the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope, the scientists found a huge quantity of dense interstellar gas — the environment required for active star formation — at the greatest distance yet detected.

Combining the best features of the National Science Foundation's new Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia with those of the NSF's Very Large Array in New Mexico, astronomers have produced a vastly improved radio image of the Orion Nebula and developed a valuable new technique for studying star formation and other astrophysical processes.