Sentences with phrase «scientists under high pressure»

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UNDER PRESSURE Using lasers, scientists compressed iron to high pressures that are likely found in large, rocky exoplanets» cores.

Scientists have long known that a protein will unfold under increased pressure if its unfolded state has a lower volume, and will remain folded if the unfolded state has a higher volume.

But under the high - pressure conditions at the neutron star's surface, it would be transformed into a material made of pure neutrons, which some scientists believe would have a jelly - like consistency.

Silica's various high - pressure forms make it an often - used study subject for scientists interested in the transition between different chemical phases under extreme conditions, such as those mimicking the deep Earth.

Scientists also study water under more extreme conditions, including at high pressures, where it can exist in the solid state even at room temperature.

The results presented in this experiment is the first unambiguous observation of high - pressure diamond formation from mixtures and agree with theoretical predictions about the conditions under which such precipitation can form and will provide scientists with better information to describe and classify other worlds.

In high - pressure and high - temperature X-ray measurements that were partly conducted at DESY, scientists created conditions similar to those in so - called subduction zones where an oceanic plate dives under the continental crust.

Among the many discoveries on matter at high pressure that garnered him the Nobel Prize in 1946, scientist Percy Bridgman discovered five different crystalline forms of water ice, ushering in more than 100 years of research into how ice behaves under extreme conditions.

The results presented in this experiment are the first unambiguous observation of high - pressure diamond formation from mixtures and agree with theoretical predictions about the conditions under which such precipitation can form and will provide scientists with better information to describe and classify other worlds.

Feb. 5, 2018 - Among the many discoveries on matter at high pressure that garnered him the Nobel Prize in 1946, scientist Percy Bridgman discovered five different crystalline forms of water ice, ushering in more than 100 years of research into how ice behaves under extreme conditions.

Below the ocean may be a few hundred miles (or kilometers) of a heavier form of ice that may exist under higher pressures on above a rocky core roughly 1,800 to 2,100 miles (3,000 to 3,400 km (more from Cassini news release; Lorenz et al, Science, March 21, 2008; Richard A. Kerr, ScienceNOW Daily News, March 20, 2008; David Shiga, New Scientist, March 20, 2008; and Charles Q. Choi and Andrea Thompson, Space.com/MSNBC, March 20, 2008).

The scientists noted that skies were fairly clear under the high - pressure cell, promoting strong melt.

But young scientists are under far more pressure to publish, and are rewarded for publishing in high impact journals.