Sentences with phrase «space scientists who»

Among them was Bill Borucki, a space scientist who persuaded nasa to launch a telescope that looks for a 0.01 percent dip in brightness from faraway stars when planets pass in front of them.

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«STEM Behind Hollywood» uses the scientists and experts who consult Hollywood filmmakers to create free classroom activities for teachers, including software and iPad apps, to explore popular movie themes such as zombie, superheroes, space and forensics to give students the chance to solve problems as real - life scientists would.

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With the help of three celestial beings (Oprah, Mindy Kaling and Reese Witherspoon) who help her bend time and shift space, Meg must find her scientist father who disappeared mysteriously.

And even scientists such as Vilenkin who co-authored the paper that suggests that this universe being past infinite is unlikely reveals that many assumptions were made (akin to working in a sterile environment), and that their theorem didn't suggest anything beyond the space - time boundary; didn't rule out multi-verse and other theories under consideration.

Scientists who study within the 2 variants of Space, One being Outer and the other being Inner are slowed to rationalize with right - minded fidelity, that Inner Space and Outer Space are but the sameness yet their Sizes of these Spaces are seen only by the material that one sees.

We have four philosopher - scientists in the Dialogues: Margaret Masterman, developing a new theory of language; Christopher Clarke, a mathematical physicist working out a theory of space; Rupert Sheldrake, who has a hypothesis of «formative causation» as supplementing energetic causation; and Jonathan Westphal, who is working on the philosophical psychology of colour perception.

While there is no existential god that dispenses grace or justice I believe that the gods of the bible, the «Elohim», were scientists from another world who had reached the technical abilities to travel through space to other planets and clone humans and they did just that on our planet thousands of years ago.

We've been doing a lot of space themed activities recently focussing on the many famous scientists who changed people's perception

The folks who volunteer to lie in bed for three months with their feet elevated slightly above their heads so that scientists can study the physiological effects of being in zero gravity tend to be passionate about space flight.

We find evidence for both models, suggesting that gamma - ray burst jets have a dual, hybrid nature,» said Troja, who is also a visiting research scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

The names pay homage to the underworld mythology, pioneering space missions, historic pioneers who crossed new horizons in exploration, and scientists and engineers associated with Pluto and the Kuiper Belt.

Her team at the space agency works hand - in - hand with the engineers at MD Robotics, which has a contract to build the instrument, and with project scientists, mainly at York University in Toronto, who will be analyzing the data.

Gavin Schmidt, a climate scientist and modeler at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said this sort of research is useful for modelers, who can take these results and see whether they show up when they run their models.

«The ice cores obtained through international collaborations were critical to the success of this study in that they allowed us to develop records from parts of Antarctica not often visited by U.S. - based scientists,» said co-author Tom Neumann of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who participated in a Norway - U.S. traverse that collected several of the cores used in this study.

«Interestingly enough, the scientist who is lead primary investigator for the X-ray spectrometer for the space probe, they call it the PIXL, was his first graduate student from Macquarie University, before his KU times.

In fact, scientists have found increasing evidence of water on numerous moons, planets, and asteroids in recent years — an encouraging trend for those who see the familiar substance as the backbone of a future space - based economy.

«We can't see individual continents or people in this portrait of Earth, but this pale blue dot is a succinct summary of who we were on July 19,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Cassini's picture reminds us how tiny our home planet is in the vastness of space, and also testifies to the ingenuity of the citizens of this tiny planet to send a robotic spacecraft so far away from home to study Saturn and take a look - back photo of Earth.»

He agrees with other scientists who think that the U.S. must begin a series of talks with the European Commission and the European Space Agency as well as with counterparts in India, China and Japan to find a way to develop an international climate observing system.

It's not surprising that scientists want employers who give them the space and freedom for the creativity needed to find to fresh solutions.

«I don't think the stories of science fiction we read in childhood are ever going to happen,» says John Mather, a Nobel laureate who is now the senior project scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope, the $ 6.5 billion successor to the Hubble telescope that NASA plans to launch in 2018.

«To take the next really big leaps in lunar science is going to take landing on the ground and getting at it with instruments in a way very similar to what we've done for Mars,» says Barbara Cohen, a planetary scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who has developed methods for dating planetary samples on the surface of other worlds1.

Located in Santa Clara, BioCurious is a co-working space outfitted with science equipment and shared by «scientists, technologists, entrepreneurs, and amateurs who believe that innovations in biology should be accessible, affordable, and open to everyone,» according to its Web site.

11 September 2013 Jenna M. Shapiro Science needs scientists who occupy the spaces between fields, to complement the more abundant disciplinary experts.

Science needs scientists who occupy the spaces between fields, to complement the more abundant disciplinary experts

Several programs have been initiated to help promote young investigators, such as the Avenir program at INSERM, which provides young scientists who already have a permanent position with fully equipped space within their host department and funding toward research expenses and salaries for nonpermanent staff for up to 5 years.

Almost all India's space research is headed up by the Bangalore - based Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), which employs more than 11,000 scientists and engineers who design, build, and launch satellites for clients from India and overseas while also preparing for India's moon misspace research is headed up by the Bangalore - based Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), which employs more than 11,000 scientists and engineers who design, build, and launch satellites for clients from India and overseas while also preparing for India's moon misSpace Research Organisation (ISRO), which employs more than 11,000 scientists and engineers who design, build, and launch satellites for clients from India and overseas while also preparing for India's moon mission.

As the chief scientist of NASA's space radiation program, Francis Cucinotta is the agency's chief oddsmaker, an erudite, respectable Jimmy the Greek who occasionally seasons his otherwise flat, technical speech with words like roulette.

«The ionosphere doesn't only react to energy input by solar storms,» said Scott England, a space scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, who works on both the ICON and GOLD missions.

«The loss of Contour would be a basic setback for the near future of cometary science,» says Gerhard Schwehm of the European Space Research and Technology Centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, who is the project scientist for the European Rosetta mission to comet Wirtanen, due to be launched on 13 January 2003.

But as she read excited messages from colleagues that a gamma ray burst had also been detected, «I realized this was a breakthrough event,» says Troja, an associate research scientist at the University of Maryland in College Park who works at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt in Maryland.

NASA and the scientists who will work with the space instruments hope that the savings will be enough to dissuade the US Congress from cutting them out of the budget altogether.

«Our results indicate that both these phenomena, dark and bright lightning, are intrinsic processes in the discharge of lightning,» said Nikolai Østgaard, who is a space scientist at the University of Bergen in Norway and led the research team.

Breastfeeding mothers need not just space, but also time, emphasizes Judith Masucci, a scientist by training who now owns and runs a business aimed at helping mothers breastfeed.

Hope will follow a lower inclination orbit that will allow the spacecraft to monitor the atmosphere at various latitudes throughout the day and across seasons, thus offering researchers a global view of how the atmosphere evolves, says Amiri, who trained as a computer scientist before rising through the ranks of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) in Dubai, UAE, which is running the mission.

Existing U.S. export controls have drawn criticism from scientists and space industry executives, who say that they have hampered collaboration with foreign colleagues and customers.

I'm immensely proud of British scientists, who really are among the world's best, as demonstrated by the strong showing in the recent international space life sciences competition,» U.K. Space Agency CEO David Parker said in a statespace life sciences competition,» U.K. Space Agency CEO David Parker said in a stateSpace Agency CEO David Parker said in a statement.

The paper «is a wonderful and gratifying confirmation of what we found several years back,» says planetary scientist and Cassini team member Carolyn Porco of the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado, who worked on the earlier examination of the F ring.

The emphasis on applied research is motivated in part by the limited lifetime of the space station, which is currently scheduled to operate until 2020, says Timothy Yeatman, who on 5 April was named interim chief scientist for CASIS and head of the review panel.

Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 is a collaboration between NASA, UC Berkeley, the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Arizona State University, the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore and Zooniverse, a collaboration of scientists, software developers and educators who collectively develop and manage citizen science projects on the internet.

In new research published, scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and in Germany and the USA show that the way in which the brain organizes its visual sense remains intact even in people who are blind from birth, and that at least the pattern of functional connectivity between the visual area and the topographical representation of space (up / down, left / right, etc.) can develop on its own without any actual visual experience.

The team's projection is almost certainly too pessimistic, counters Drew Shindell, a climate scientist at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City who was involved in both previous studies critiqued by Smith and Mizrahi.

She knew a physicist who did educational outreach (but had just lost his grant, so he couldn't offer me any work), who knew a space scientist (who did no outreach or education at all), who knew a geologist (who occasionally volunteered in the schools), who knew an evolutionary ecologist (who worked for a nonprofit with no money at all), who knew the director of another local nonprofit educational company.

Then came a day in 1998 when Edwards chanced to read a interview with a scientist — he does not recall the name — who declared that the space elevator would be completed in «300 years to never.»

At the urging of planetary scientist Richard Morris of the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, who works on Spirit's Mössbauer gamma - ray spectrometer, Ruff's group went back to review its data from the Comanche outcrops.

He knew the scientists who had built instruments for Mars 96 had spares; that's standard procedure in space science.

NASA will host a prelaunch panel discussion at 8 a.m. PDT Sept. 18, at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, featuring scientists and researchers who will discuss various science and research studies, including the four Ames - supported payloads to study model organism research using yeast, rodents, fruit flies and plants.

The 68 - year - old Rashid Sunyaev, who is a director of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany, and chief scientist at the Space Research Institute in Moscow, wins the prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Basic Sciences.

Climate Science Day is not a junket for the atmospheric scientist who works as a contract employee at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; it is more like science version of speed — dating.

«Everybody out there working in the cancer space is trying to figure out ways to enhance checkpoint blockade immunotherapy,» said Wenbin Lin, James Franck Professor in Chemistry at UChicago and one of the scientists who conceived the new therapy.