Sentences with phrase «scientists caught in the act»
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Previous experiments had suggested that one variety can turn into another, and scientists finally caught one in the act.
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Black holes have a reputation for destruction but it was only in 2011 that scientists caught one in the act, watching it devour an errant star.
«It's galaxies caught in the act of being ripped apart and re-assembled,» David Sanders of the University of Hawaii in Honolulu, US, told New Scientist.
But surprised scientists have now caught blue whales in the act of making full 360 ° rolls at high speed as they close in on their prey.
Scientists from the Cees Dekker group at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at Delft University, together with the Christian Haering group from EMBL Heidelberg who established the purification and fluorescence labeling of the protein, managed to make actual movies that caught the action of the condensin complex in the act — that is, while it was extruding a loop of DNA.
Occasionally, when the stars are aligned just right, this warping of the fabric of the universe results in a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing, wherein the strong gravitational field of a foreground object acts as a lens that «bends» light from an object in the background and allows scientists to catch a glimpse of what might otherwise have remained invisible.
Molecules caught in the act — TSRI scientists solve elusive enzyme intermediates A collaboration between The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) Professors Ian A. Wilson, Chi - Huey Wong, and their colleagues in the Departments of Chemistry, Molecular Biology, and The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology has yielded one of the best views ever of an enzyme caught in the act of catalyzing a reaction on its substrate.