Sentences with phrase «surprised by the discovery»

Yet, oddly enough, I wasn't completely surprised by the discovery.

The researchers were so surprised by their discovery that they went back and validated their findings repeatedly, using multiple techniques, including new techniques that they developed.

Somehow I had just never thought about cheap fashion in places other than Western / North American markets, and I was a little bit surprised by the discovery that my «authentic» skirt, wasn't so authentic after all.

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.

When turned on, the visitor becomes a witness of the robbery that is taking place right in front of his eyes: all birds have multi-coloured little pills in their beaks which they are about to steal — they are all feathered thieves caught in the act: there is a parade of six seemingly dancing smaller birds that appear to be surprised by their discovery and that seem to run away from the crime scene; a big blue pelican strides away gingerly with his loot in his beak whereas a dark brownish owl seems to pause and reconsider her deed; a bright red and orange bird on one leg almost falls off the table while trying to escape the crime scene... Their facial expressions are manifold but their actions are always the same: to flee their discovery and the nosy glance of the beholder and to leave their sites of crime behind.

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My wife was both surprised by the recommendation and delighted by the discovery.

We won't be surprised if the developer of the trading software is actually trying to imply an analogy of his creation to that of the CERN's discovery of the universe's smallest particle by naming it the Neutrino Profit App.

Ok we cant deny it anymore the church said, so lets say GOD created evolution but we will not calll it evolution because thats just is admitting that science was right, lets call it Smart design, and so creationism was born, its no surprise that any great discovery gets hijacked and twisted and changed to fit with the religious when so long before proven it gets denied by the same people.

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.

Pregnancy is a time of self discovery and you may feel surprised by how you feel about becoming a parent even on a day to day basis.

Although a $ 1.2 million rehabilitation of all of Wheaton North High School's athletic fields has largely gone smoothly, completion of one of the project's crown jewels — the varsity baseball diamond — has been delayed by a surprising discovery: The centerfield fence is 40 feet closer to home plate than school officials had desired.

That surprise was quickly followed by the discovery that in Broome County, a candidate from a congressional race in 2010 had arose from nowhere.

The discovery is even more surprising because pulsars by nature are not very massive objects and so have always been assumed capable of only relatively moderate X-ray signals.

By tracking the physiological and psychological effects of one program on Syrian and Jordanian teenagers, scientists make some surprising discoveries

The surprising discovery, representing a milestone in Dead Sea Scroll research, was made by Dr. Oren Gutfeld and Ahiad Ovadia from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Institute of Archaeology, with the collaboration of Dr. Randall Price and students from Liberty University in Virginia, USA.

Now, a surprising discovery by scientists in Canada and Russia reveals that MOFs also exist in nature — albeit in the form of rare minerals found so far only in Siberian coal mines.

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

A few years after the initial discovery in 1956, researchers were caught by surprise when more than one type of neutrino showed up in their experiments.

The discovery took astronomers by surprise.

By combining the power of a «natural lens» in space with the capability of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers made a surprising discovery — the first example of a compact yet massive, fast - spinning, disk - shaped galaxy that stopped making stars only a few billion years after the big bang.

«To maintain the technological superiority of the US military and prevent technological surprise from harming our national security by sponsoring revolutionary, high - payoff research that bridges the gap between fundamental discoveries and their military use.»

Alan Stern of SwRI, a member of the discovery team headed by Hal Weaver of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, says he is surprised by how compact Pluto's satellite system is.

The discovery «opens up exciting possibilities about how forests are affected by what goes on underground,» says Cindy Prescott, coeditor of the Canadian Journal of Forest Research, in which the surprising study appeared.

The researchers were surprised by two discoveries.

Intrigued by this surprising discovery, researchers concluded that the light - absorbing gaseous form of titanium oxide has been removed from the dayside of planet Kepler - 13Ab's atmosphere.

An experiment that, by design, was not supposed to turn up anything of note instead produced a «bewildering» surprise, according to the Stanford scientists who made the discovery: a new way of creating gold nanoparticles and nanowires using water droplets.

«The surprise is the discovery of the type of memory formation that was not disrupted by the removal of the grid cell area,» Clark said.

There's a struggle (with an observatory door), the element of surprise (an unexpected burst on a photographic plate), disbelief (by our protagonist and a collaborator), a scramble (to figure out how to report the discovery of the supernova), and an action scene that seems impossibly quaint: A driver races to the nearest town 100 kilometers away to send a telegram and alert the world that 166,000 light - years away, a star has exploded.

The surprising discovery made by the Dresden - based researchers: two components in the stem cell environment — the extracellular matrix and thyroid hormones — work together with a protein molecule found on the stem cell surface, a so - called integrin.

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 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.

An international team of astronomers led by the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) has made a surprising discovery about the birthplace of groups of stars located in the halo of our Milky Way galaxy.

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).

The surprising discovery, described in the Feb. 3 issue of Science Express, * can boost the performance of experimental atomic clocks made of thousands or tens of thousands of neutral atoms trapped by intersecting laser beams.

An experiment that, by design, was not supposed to turn up anything of note instead produced a «bewildering» surprise, according to the Stanford scientists who made the discovery: a new way of creating gold nanoparticles...

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.

«The discovery that these very bright objects, long thought to be black holes with masses up to 1,000 times that of the sun, are powered by much less massive neutron stars, was a huge scientific surprise,» says Fiona Harrison, Caltech's Benjamin M. Rosen Professor of Physics; the Kent and Joyce Kresa Leadership Chair of the Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy; and the principal investigator of the NuSTAR mission.

Maunakea, Hawaii — An international team of astronomers led by the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) has made a surprising discovery about the birthplace of groups of stars located in the halo of our Milky Way galaxy.

An international research team, led by Chin - Fei Lee of the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA, Taiwan), has used the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) and made two surprising discoveries around a very young protostar HH212.

This is hardly surprising, as the discovery, by Shinya Yamanaka, of the process to produce embryonic - like, fully pluripotent stem cells from ordinary somatic (body) cells has -LSB-...]

«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.

A team of biophysicists has made a surprising discovery: Nearly all of the nematode's various movements can be reproduced by adding four basic patterns of motion.

Illustrative of this serendipity is a discovery made in 2009 by LJI scientist Toshiaki Kawakami, M.D., PhD., who, while testing whether a particular enzyme might be acting to counter allergies (his area of expertise), engineered a mouse to lack that factor and found it, to his surprise, that it developed blood cancer.

By comparing the conversations, the researchers made the surprising discovery that similar reactions were taking place in different tumour types.

A team of scientists led by a UVM grad, and assisted by an emeritus professor, made the surprising discovery that America's favorite native wildlife species, white - tailed deer, also carry another native species: malaria parasites.

I think it is better to be shocked and surprised by good news than to be stunned by a horrible discovery, better to anticipate grief than to have your idealistic heart ripped apart by a pregnancy that ends prematurely.

Review I have seen this movie twice, probably the third romantic movie that compelled me to do that, and the reasons are quite simple: It's probably impossible that anyone can't relate to young Josh Hutcherson's character, an 11 year old with a normal middle class life and problems (parents initiating divorce); that its surprise by the rediscovery of a young classmate (Charley Ray) initially as an unexpected friend and later as something else... The well crafted work of director Mark Levin is based on the mutual discovery of all these feelings (mostly new and uncontrolled) that evolved in Josh's character and in another particular viewer: you.

Graciously filmed by Martin Brest and imaginatively performed by Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin, the tired concept yields a steady stream of little discoveries and surprising insights that add up to some uncommonly rich comedy.

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.

The 13 - year - old has now traveled to Idaho and California, where he and three classmates surprised working scientists by describing new discoveries about where the 3 - inch - long lizards live and what they eat.