Sentences with phrase «surprised at this discovery»

«Many astronomers are surprised at this discovery, because they didn't expect such strong radio emission from this object,» said Shri Kulkarni, a Caltech professor who was on the team that first discovered a brown dwarf in 1995, and advisor to one of the students.

Not exact matches

Scientists and mathematicians may experience frustration or surprise or disappointment at times, but whether they did or didn't regarding discovery of the Mandelbrot set is irrelevant.

Along with the members of the congregation, God enjoys the process by which the gift of word or gesture returns at the next Eucharist, with surprises and discoveries and insights attached to it.

In faith's response to its kenotic image of God there lies a surprising way of bringing new meaning to our normally confused sense of mystery, to our puzzlement about evolution and other recent discoveries about the physical universe, to our perplexity at the broken state of social existence, and finally to our own individual longings and sufferings.

The discovery of the artwork, which is in good condition, surprised the park district board, which is working to restore the so - called «classical parks, «built at the turn of the century.

You might be surprised at a new discovery.

«Cassini's discovery of ocean worlds at Titan and Enceladus changed everything, shaking our views to the core about surprising places to search for potential life beyond Earth.»

This somewhat surprising discovery enriches our fundamental knowledge of the atomic - level segregation structures at general grain boundaries, which are important in controlling a broad range of mechanical and physical properties of polycrystalline alloys.

Researchers from the Dark Cosmology Centre at the Niels Bohr Institute, among others, have analysed measurements of the stars in the dwarf galaxy Andromeda II and made a surprising discovery.

But unlike the discovery of dark energy, which was completely unexpected and is still inexplicable, the detection of the Higgs field won't surprise physicists at all.

Another surprise revealed at the conference was the discovery that Pluto's atmosphere is much colder and more compact than thought.

In a study published recently in Coral Reefs, scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego created and analyzed detailed photomosaics of the coral reef at Palmyra Atoll, and made surprising discoveries around coral spatial ecology.

«The discovery is surprising,» adds astrophysicist Scott Tremaine at Princeton University in New Jersey, because stars are expected to come close to the outer Solar System only about once every 9 million years, yet this encounter occurred recently.

Given the importance of interdisciplinary research, it's not surprising that — according to John Sninsky, vice president of discovery research at Celera — it's important to be well - rounded.

The discovery that there had been such a large tsunami is surprising, says Seth Stein, a geophysicist at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill..

For Alexandra Trkola, a professor of medical virology at UZH, this surprising discovery needs to be studied more closely: «First of all, we need to understand more precisely what significance and impact the genetic, geographical and socio - economic factors of people from different ethnicities have on the formation of these antibodies.»

His latest book is At the Edge of Uncertainty: 11 discoveries taking science by surprise (Profile)

«To find out that women are patenting at higher rates in academia compared to industry, government and individuals is a surprising discovery,» Sugimoto said.

A first clue came when researchers at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and the University of Colorado made the surprising discovery that six protoplanetary disks in Orion were invisible in the 1.3 - mm radio band.

The surprising discovery is providing a new look at how symbiotic species evolve.

That discovery not only surprised investigators, it also was at odds with overheated speculation in the media and around dinner tables that violent video games had helped turn Lanza into a killer.

Researchers at UC Davis have made some surprising discoveries about the body's initial responses to HIV infection.

Newspaper lining the bottom of a stink bug (Podisus maculiventris, pictured, with eggs at bottom) cage may seem an unlikely impetus for scientific discovery, but it was the black and white squares of the crossword puzzle that that led Paul Abram, an entomologist working towards his Ph.D. at Université de Montréal in Canada, to suspect that stink bugs might be employing a surprising strategy when laying their eggs.

By employing a technique they developed that involves collecting methane from roughly ten thousand gallons of seawater per sample, they made a surprising discovery: ancient - sourced methane is indeed being released into the ocean; but very little survives to be emitted to the atmosphere, even at surprisingly shallow depths.

The discovery was a surprise finding for investigators Lori Altmann, an associate professor of speech, language and hearing sciences at the College of Public Health and Health Professions, and Chris Hass, an associate professor of applied physiology and kinesiology in the College of Health and Human Performance.

Still, the discovery will likely be a surprise to even the most experienced dog trainers, says Brian Hare, a comparative psychologist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

The research group led by Suat Özbek und Thomas Holstein compared the molecular components of both organelles and made a surprising discovery: The two don't match up at all.

The discovery is «entirely surprising», says James Tour, a specialist in nanotechnology at Rice University in Houston, Texas.

Research jointly conducted by investigators at Institut Gustave Roussy, Inserm, Institut Pasteur and INRA (French National Agronomic Research Institute) has led to a rather surprising discovery on the manner in which cancer chemotherapy treatments act more effectively with the help of the intestinal flora (also known as the intestinal microbiota).

One of the most surprising discoveries was that, even after five years, some bundles contained only a few small, young boring clams, and other bundles contained no clams at all.

Their surprising discovery demonstrates that the vitamin A derivative ATRA (all - trans retinoic acid), a treatment for APL that is considered to be the first example of modern targeted cancer therapy, can block multiple cancer - driving pathways and, at the same time, eliminate cancer stem cells by degrading the Pin1 enzyme.

HIDDEN GENETIC WEALTH «The discovery of this variability in the DNA barcoding for a group of insects that is so well known, or at least that is what we thought, has been a great surprise for us,» emphasizes Montagud.

Neuroscientists gained several surprising insights into memory this year, including the discovery that the brain creates multiple copies of memories at once — even though it hides the long - term copy from our awareness at first.

«The surprising aspect about the present discovery is that we have detected this Lyman - alpha line in an apparently faint galaxy at a redshift of 8.68, corresponding to a time when the universe should be full of absorbing hydrogen clouds,» Richard Ellis, a former faculty member of the California Institute of Technology, and co-author of a paper detailing the findings, published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, said in a statement.

«By comparing the cells that are susceptible to HIV entry to those susceptible to HIV infection, we made a surprising discovery,» added Roan, who is also an assistant professor in the Department of Urology at UCSF.

Thus, the discovery of a coral reef system at the mouth of the Amazon River is significantly surprising, considering its mud and brackishness.

«The surprising aspect about the present discovery is that we have detected this Lyman - alpha line in an apparently faint galaxy at a redshift of 8.68, corresponding to a time when the Universe should be full of absorbing hydrogen clouds,» said co-author and Caltech astronomer Richard Ellis.

«This discovery is surprising because the Schrödinger Equation is an unlikely formula to arise when looking at distances on the order of light - years,» says Batygin.

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin — Madison have made a surprising and potentially crucial discovery about Alexander disease, a rare and fatal neurological disorder with no known cure.

«Big, long cracks» at the bottom of the sea in the South Pacific were among his team's more surprising and mysterious discoveries.

The scientists behind the discovery described their surprise at having uncovered a major anatomical structure that until now had been entirely overlooked.

I never would've thought I might encounter a ski movie comedy at Cannes, and that it would be something I could call brilliant, yet every year I'm surprised by discoveries and this is another that will go down as one of my favorites of this festival.

Steven Spielberg's sci - fi adventure «Ready Player One» surprised audiences at the South by Southwest festival, where cinematic discoveries and interactive experiences dazzled attendees.

Once there, Les finds who his looking for, or at least he thinks he does, and Natalie surprises with a discovery of her own.

Rear passenger room is a pleasant discovery and not necessarily expected in an entry - level coupe, though I suspect some will likewise be unpleasantly surprised at the rather average fuel - mileage ratings.

A fascinating, entertaining, and highly accessible look at the surprising role serendipity played in some of the most important medical discoveries in the 20th century.

So it's not surprising, maybe, that even as I wrote of «Discoveries about Discoverability» in the fog of London for Tuesday's Ether for Authors at Publishing Perspectives, more to - ing and fro - ing was in the offing.

Canadian architect David Lombardi's concept of «Function over Form» leaves Villa Sapi's guests with a sense of discovery and surprise at every turn, from the traditionally styled, grass - roofed building that houses the main kitchen to a futuristic home theatre.

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Designs for procedural content at Kitfox Games have resulted in many dead - ends and frustrations but also surprising discoveries and breakthroughs.