Sentences with phrase «strange object of study»

Marilyn Murphy: Magic Realist features paintings and drawings in which reality is turned upside down in dreamlike scenes, with gravity - defying objects and figures diligently focused on a task — their earnest stances belying what is always, in fact, a very strange object of study.

These figures» earnest stances belie what is always, in fact, a very strange object of study.

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McGreevy admits the quantum systems he and his colleagues studied were very abstract because they had properties that were smeared out continuously in space instead of varying in a stepwise, quantum fashion.Sachdev's has come up with a more realistic model, McGreevy says, by applying a gravitational object, a kind of black hole, to a quantum system with properties that vary stepwise along a lattice, just as in the lattice structure of strange metals.

In one study of this strange condition, a woman stroke victim grasped any object that touched her hand.

[1] The astronomers George Herbig and Guillermo Haro were not the first to see one of the objects that now bear their names, but they were the first to study the spectra of these strange objects in detail.

Astrophysicist Patrick Treuthardt, one of the co-authors of the study, noted, «Whenever we find a unique or strange object to study, it challenges our current theories and assumptions about how the universe works.»

And yet this course of study seems entirely necessary for the artist's brilliantly unclassifiable work: aquariums and terrariums that contain meticulously assembled environments where natural and artificial elements combine to create objects of startling, strange beauty.