Sentences with phrase «sensitive measurements»

To measure concentrations that low, you need an extremely sensitive measurement technique, and such a technique already exists.

Meanwhile, planning is under way for a new generation of experiments that will make even more sensitive measurements.

In late August, Short and his colleagues took a cruise to make some of the first highly sensitive measurements of PAHs at depth.

The chance orientation at which the Abell 3827 cluster is seen from Earth makes it possible to conduct highly sensitive measurements of its dark matter.

«Our new fiber sensor has a simple structure and is inexpensive to make while being small enough for highly sensitive measurement in narrow areas,» said Chao Chen, a member of the research team from the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.

Researchers at EPFL's Laboratory for fundamental BioPhotonics, led by Sylvie Roke, have probed the influence of ions on the structure of water with unprecedentedly sensitive measurements.

BICEP2 made a very sensitive measurement of the sky at a single radio frequency, 150 GHz.

The UC Davis bioelectricity laboratory is one of a very few able to make such sensitive measurements of electric fields in living tissue.

The experiment required three things: a special kind of vibrating widget, or «micromechanical resonator,» an extremely sensitive measurement device, and specific conditions in which to place them.

9 December 2015 Annual Hitachi Lectureship at AAAS Focus: Challenges of Using Highly Sensitive Measurement Technologies: From Explosives and Illegal Drug Detection Using Mass Spectrometer to Cancer Detection Using Nematodes Featuring: Dr. Minoru Sakairi, Chief Scientist, Center for Exploratory Research, of the Research and Development Group, Hitachi, Ltd., and discussant Dr. Gerald L. Epstein, former AAAS Director of the Center for Science, Technology, and Security Policy.

This provided a cleaner and better - controlled interface, and also opened up opportunities for surface sensitive measurements.»

The PYP microcrystals were perfectly matched to the optical absorption so that the entire crystal was undergoing dynamics, which in turn allows sensitive measurements of the molecular changes by snapshot X-ray diffraction.

«The highly sensitive measurements from HFI have clearly demonstrated that reionization was a very quick process, starting fairly late in cosmic history and having half - reionized the Universe by the time it was about 700 million years old,» Jean - Loup Puget from Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale in Orsay, France, principal investigator of Planck's HFI, said in a statement released Wednesday.

It is possible to probe the Epoch of Reionisation and trace the history of the formation of the first luminous objects by sensitive measurements of the spectral signature of neutral hydrogen.

The past climates that forced these changes in ice volume and sea level were reconstructed mainly from temperature - sensitive measurements in ocean cores from around the globe, and from ice cores.

Comparing argon and krypton let the scientists cancel out experimental errors, leading to a more sensitive measurement that was able to distinguish between the two theories.

Not 100 but 1,000,000 molecules are influenced Researchers at EPFL's Laboratory for fundamental BioPhotonics, led by Sylvie Roke, have probed the influence of ions on the structure of water with unprecedentedly sensitive measurements.

The ability to control quantum noise could one day be used to improve the precision of very sensitive measurements, such as those obtained by LIGO, the Laser Interferometry Gravitational - wave Observatory, a Caltech - and - MIT - led project searching for signs of gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of space - time.

A physicist's discovery is providing chemists with sensitive measurements of the energy states of atomic nuclei, thereby supplying new clues to the architecture of complex molecules

In a sensitive measurement, such as one involving a real nuclear warhead, the proposition is that no classified data would be exposed or shared in the process, and no electronic components that might be vulnerable to tampering or snooping would be used.

To perform spin - sensitive measurements, the researchers create electrodes that are magnetized in different orientations.

The relative abundances of isotopes forms a chemical signature that careful analysis and sensitive measurements can uncover.

Understanding requires new tools capable of sensitive measurements and analysis.

The sensitive measurements showed that the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increases and decreases in an annual cycle.