Ever since LIGO announced the first gravitational -
wave event in early 2016, networks of small telescopes around the world have been poised to detect an «optical counterpart.»
Taking into account the disastrous effects of the 2003 and 2010 heat
wave events in Europe, and those of 2011 and 2012 in the USA, results show that we may be facing a serious risk of adverse impacts over larger and densely populated areas if mitigation strategies for reducing global warming are not implemented.
While the blocking pattern associated with the 2010 event was unusually intense and persistent, its major features were similar to atmospheric patterns associated with prior extreme heat
wave events in the region since 1880, the researchers found.
Not exact matches
A full half of 3,863 coral reefs
in the magnificent ecosystem were wiped out by catastrophic bleaching
events caused by searing heat
waves in 2016 and 2017.
The versatile Coleman Oversized Quad Chair will help you relax whether you're deep
in the woods, on the sidelines of a sporting
event, or watching the
waves at the beach.
In a world of split - second attention spans, if you can stay nimble enough to leverage your celebrity partnerships in a way that rides the wave of current events, pop culture or social media «chatter,» you can make both branding and fundraising magi
In a world of split - second attention spans, if you can stay nimble enough to leverage your celebrity partnerships
in a way that rides the wave of current events, pop culture or social media «chatter,» you can make both branding and fundraising magi
in a way that rides the
wave of current
events, pop culture or social media «chatter,» you can make both branding and fundraising magic.
Everything with mass
in the universe theoretically creates them — you and me included — but only highly cataclysmic
events, such as exploding stars, colliding black holes, or the Big Bang, can generate
waves that are powerful enough for LIGO to detect.
Because LIGO was able to detect two of these gravitational
wave events within its first few months of running, scientists are confident that these sorts of black hole collisions are actually pretty common
in our neighborhood.
U.S. airlines remaining after a
wave of megamergers over the past decade have left travelers with fewer options, even though these airlines have, as a result, larger fleets and access to more hubs to reposition aircraft
in the
event of a storm.
In a recent analysis of climate events from last year, 2016, scientists determined three events — record - breaking global heat, a heat wave over Asia, and a «blob» of unusually warm water in the Northern Pacific — could not have occurred without human - induced climate chang
In a recent analysis of climate
events from last year, 2016, scientists determined three
events — record - breaking global heat, a heat
wave over Asia, and a «blob» of unusually warm water
in the Northern Pacific — could not have occurred without human - induced climate chang
in the Northern Pacific — could not have occurred without human - induced climate change.
The
wave of selling could still push the majors lower, but we expect Bitcoin to be
in the center of
events, while the rest of the market will likely hold up better.
Moyers's people had swarmed over the Indiana University campus
in successive
waves of producers, executive producers, directors and associate directors; of lighting people, camera people, sound people and questions - from - the - audience people; had added a participant (Nicholas von Hoffman) to be sure the affair would be telegenic; had phoned the panelists before the
event with their own list of topics and ideas; had thrown together a wooden platform just for their cameras, which cameras prevented many
in the actual audience from seeing the panelists; had shifted the meeting rooms to meet the exacting requirements for the paraphernalia of television; had fed questions to members of the audience, and instructions «from the truck» to the moderator («move on»); and then had fashioned from 12 hours of tape one hour that might have been made
in a New York city hotel room.
(2) Our second difficulty is that Whitehead's denial of the regional inclusion of small
events by large
events seems to exclude the possibility that the pattern of brain
waves as a whole identifies mind -
events that include the subordinate electromagnetic occurrences
in the
waves themselves.
In an enterprise characterized by wave upon wave of words, sermons that become Word - events gestate, ironically, in eerie silenc
In an enterprise characterized by
wave upon
wave of words, sermons that become Word -
events gestate, ironically,
in eerie silenc
in eerie silence.
The Dun Commission of Christian scholars
in 1950
in their report on The Christian Conscience and Weapons of Mass Destruction stated that «to accept general war as inevitable is to treat ourselves as helpless objects carried by a fated tide of
events rather than as responsible men,» and went on to say, «One reason why fascism and Naziism gained their dread power over great nations was because otherwise decent people bowed before what they regarded as «inevitable» and allowed a «
wave of the future» to inundate them.»
«We are excited to partner with DSR driver, Leah Pritchett, who recently closed out her impressive 2017 season with four NHRA
event titles,» stated Chris Hall, Chief Operating Officer of Talking Rain Beverage Co. «At Sparkling Ice, we were immediately inspired by Leah's career, especially as a woman making
waves in such a male dominated field.
«Then
in the next few months they're going to have an
event in the
wave pool where it's the opposite of big and wild and natural.
Both competition and public interest
in track and field
events seem to come
in surging
waves — each of which lifts a Charlie Paddock, a Sabin Carr, a Paavo Nurmi or a Roger Bannister to enduring fame and then washes away leaving those who break and rebreak their records
in relative obscurity.
An FIA statement said: «The stewards heard from Marcus Ericsson, the driver of car # 9 and the team representative and reviewed the video evidence which clearly showed that the driver attempted to set a meaningful lap time after passing through a double
waved yellow marshalling sector, contrary to the requirements set out
in the race director's
event notes (10.1)
in breach of article 12.1.1 i.»
I would much rather have a trained medical staff right there
in the
event something goes wrong while I'm
in labor, instead of some hippie - granola lay midwife
waving sage and crystals at my hoo - ha for four days.
Perhaps one of the most chilling moments from last night's attack on Finsbury Park mosque came after the
event when the suspect could be seen sitting
in the back of a police van grinning and
waving to the cameras.
Tens of thousands of people
waving rainbow flags lined streets for gay pride parades Sunday
in coast - to - coast
events that took both celebratory and political tones, the latter a reaction to what some see as new threats to gay rights
in the Trump era.
She showed up at her primary night
event at a Long Island catering hall with her father
in tow,
waved to the cameras and then was never seen again — until her campaign issued a statement early Wednesday morning conceding the race to Schneiderman.
There was also an
event held at Enniskillen, the site of a devastating IRA attack
in 1987 that killed 11 and wounded 63, where she was greeted with applause and people
waving union flags.
The
event took place
in front of the Burlington Coat Factory plaza, where participants were greeted with a mix of friendly
waves, thumbs - up and raised middle fingers by passing drivers.
Gayle Sweeney is a hostage — kept on a limited diet, rarely allowed to change clothes or even leave her walk -
in - closet jail except for press
events or fund - raisers where she's posited as the perfect political wife, forced to
wave and smile like a child - rearing, cookie - baking seal.
He finally made it official late last month at a tightly - choreographed kick - off
event at the gilded United Palace Theater
in Washington Heights, where he was joined by a chorus of vocal backers
waving campaign signs.
Hillary Clinton
waves to the audience at an
event to endorse Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe at The State Theatre
in Falls Church, Virginia, October 19, 2013.
On the same day he agrees to join Barack Obama at Ground Zero on September 11, John McCain attacks the patriotism of Obama supporters who so proudly
waved the American flag at our historic
event in Denver just days ago.»
Before the
event started, they
waved across Salina Street to their daughter, Maya Elizabeth, as caregivers held her up to the window of Maffei's sixth floor district office
in the Syracuse Savings Bank Building.
Origin of the heavy elements
in binary neutron star mergers from a gravitational
wave event.
The occasional merger of neutron stars literally shakes the universe by sending out gravitational
waves (illustrated above), but these
events may also be the main source of gold and other heavy elements
in the Milky Way, a new study suggests.
Large space - weather
events, such as geomagnetic storms, can alter the incoming radio
waves — a distortion that scientists can use to determine the concentration of plasma particles
in the upper atmosphere.
In this cosmic
event, gravitational
waves — oscillations of spacetime — whose signal characteristics are related to the mass of the stars, are emitted.
Global warming played a role
in half of 2012's litany of extreme weather
events, from heat
waves to storm surges
Human influence is discernible also
in some extreme
events such as unusually hot and cold nights and the incidence of heat
waves.
Gravitational -
wave astronomy is expected to observe more such
events in the near future, both
in terms of gravitational -
wave signals and
in the more traditional frequency ranges.
While there are still parts to be tested with greater precision and aspects to be fully exploited (such as using gravity
waves to detect the formation of black holes and
events that occurred during the earliest moments of creation), physicists are ready and eager to go beyond Einstein
in their understanding of gravity.
The Nottingham experiment was based on the theory that an area immediately outside the
event horizon of a rotating black hole — a black hole's gravitational point of no return — will be dragged round by the rotation and any
wave that enters this region, but does not stray past the
event horizon, should be deflected and come out with more energy than it carried on the way
in — an effect known as superradiance.
For the first time, scientists worldwide and at Penn State University have detected both gravitational
waves and light shooting toward our planet from one massively powerful
event in space — the birth of a new black hole created by the merger of two neutron stars.
The physics at the
event horizon resembles the behavior of
waves in moving media.
Virgo will improve physicists» ability to locate the source of each new
event, by comparing millisecond - scale differences
in the arrival time of incoming gravitational
wave signals.
Global warming is causing not only a general increase
in temperatures, but also an increase
in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather
events, such as flooding, heat
waves and droughts.
For example, nuclear properties played a vital role
in the neutron - star merger
event that was recently discovered by gravitational -
wave and electromagnetic observatories around the world.
«We saw ultraviolet light resulting from this gravitational -
wave event as part of Swift observations of almost 750 different locations
in the sky.
«Global warming boosts the probability of really extreme
events, like the recent US heat
wave, far more than it boosts more moderate
events,» point out climate scientists Stefan Rahmstorf and Dim Coumou
in a blogpost on RealClimate.org.
These models might be able to peer up to 50 years ahead and «show regional
events, like a heat
wave in India, rather than just global trends, like higher temperatures,» says Kate Evans, a scientist at the lab.
Increased fluctuations
in the path of the North Atlantic jet stream since the 1960s coincide with more extreme weather
events in Europe such as heat
waves, droughts, wildfires and flooding, reports a University of Arizona - led team.
In December, a special edition of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society included a selection of studies investigating the influence of climate change on a variety of recent extreme weather and climate
events, including marine heat
waves.
The
waves are concentric ripples caused by violent
events in the Universe that squeeze and stretch the fabric of space time but most are so weak they can not be detected.