Sentences with phrase «surprising observation»

An international research group led by Junko Ueda, a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science postdoctoral fellow, has made surprising observations that most galaxy collisions in the nearby Universe — within 40 - 600 million light - years from Earth — result in so - called disc galaxies.

This species» intimate mating strategy proved to be one of the team's most surprising observations, challenging all that is known about conventional octopus reproduction.

But an even more surprising observation was that the cells didn't go away — they hung around at a 10-fold increase over prepregnancy levels for more than 100 days after birth (the equivalent of 4 years to 5 years in humans).

The researchers» surprising observations shed light on the question how species might respond to resource fluctuations that are not naturally determined.

For example, in a session on human vaccine trials, Glenda Gray from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa reported the somewhat surprising observation that T - cell responses to vaccines can differ depending on gender and body mass index.

When bombarding uranium with neutrons, Hahn had made some surprising observations that went against everything known at the time about the dense cores of atoms — their nuclei.

In doing so, the scientists made a surprising observation: «One and the same active ingredient caused most of the tumor facets to die,» reports lead author Roman Reinartz of Professor Scheffler's Team.

His research group was studying how the beetles used the polarized light patterns of the moon to stay on their paths, when one moonless night they made a surprising observation — the beetles maintained straight trajectories.

As they further studied this phenomenon, they made a surprising observation.

Their work grew out of a surprising observation that bacteria could remember viruses.

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, made this surprising observation, when they studied tobacco plants that have been silenced in their ability to produce floral volatiles.

Jennifer Meyer, postdoctoral researcher in the Wester group and one of the co-authors of this article stresses the surprising observations: «In conjunction with the simulations for this reaction we found strong differences between the dynamics observed for different repelled partners.»

This pip - squeak vehicle took home the bronze, but perhaps more importantly, researchers made a surprising observation while manufacturing this model of nanoracer.

«These surprising observations show us how a deep - sea animal reproduces,» says Barbara Ransom, a program director in the National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences, which funded the research.

In the course of their research, the researchers encountered a surprising observation.

«It is interesting that with Yuri's work, almost a half century later, scientists are finally making the measurements in space that explain the surprising observations made in 1966 and reported in my 1968 thesis,» he said.

«Sun's core rotates four times faster than its surface: Surprising observation might reveal what the sun was like when it formed.»

Insights have come from the surprising observation that orangutans can be incredibly creative in captivity.

Another surprising observation is that most distant galaxies look remarkably similar to nearer galaxies.

Scientists had assumed the core was rotating at about the same speed as the surface, but this surprising observation might reveal what the sun was like when it formed.

The scientist's previous work has led him to some surprising observations.

No one can give firm answers, but some surprising observations emerged at the conference.

They make the surprising observation that white noise pseudoproxies outperform low order red noise (the usual climate science benchmark) under their test.

This surprising observation comes from the fact that weather systems - in particular high pressure «cold and calm» periods in winter - can extend for 1000 miles, so that periods of low wind generation are often correlated across Europe.