Sentences with phrase «very surprising discovery»

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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.

One of the biggest surprises has been the discovery of very bright spots, which reflect far more light than their much darker surroundings [1].

«Many of us were very surprised that the work that he did didn't earn a share of the Nobel Prize» allocated to gene - silencing discoveries in 2006, Hunt adds.

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.

Another very surprising result was the discovery of high levels of genetic variation within Polistes dominula, a species commonly found in Central Europe, indicating the presence of up to three different and hitherto unrecognized species — a case requiring further investigation.

«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.

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.

That was a surprising discovery, since scientists used to think that elephants» legs were not very bendable.

The 2014 QX60's sleek, distinctive exterior might very likely make the discovery of the large and comfortable interior a surprise — how did they fit so much space inside such an eye - catching shape?

«This discovery is very surprising», said lead author Dr. Michael Lutz, now at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science.

Yesterday's discovery of support docs for an unreleased Google Now widget may have spoiled the surprise, and Google's abrupt removal of those pages had us thinking that a release still might be a way's off, but today Google has followed - up with an update to its Google Search app, delivering that very same Google Now widget, amongst a number of other improvements.