Sentences with phrase «wave scientists at»

«We want to make your dreams come true,» he told the gravitational - wave scientists at the meeting.

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Brain waves usually are monitored in hospitals or research labs, but I'm in a conference room at a company called Emotiv, where a few dozen scientists have developed the gear and software that quite literally read my mind, allowing me to play a sort of video game with nothing but sheer thought.

At GE's BBQ Research Center, scientists measured attendees» brain waves as they ate brisket.

«They haven't demonstrated that they can transform the wave of dissatisfaction into concrete policies,» says Chaldeans Mensah, a political scientist at Grant MacEwan College in Edmonton.

It also confirms more than any other evidence that the universe had a beginning and expanded at a rate faster than the speed of light within less than a trillion of a trillion of a trillion of a second — less than 10 ^ -35 of a second — of the Big Bang by detecting the miniscule «light polarizations» called B - Modes caused by the Gravitational Waves — which were theorized in 1916 by Albert Einstein in his Theory of General Relativity but never detected before — of the Inflation of the Big Bang which are embedded in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation — CMB or CMBR that was discovered by American scientists back in 1964.

This discovery is superior to the current redshift — hence the Doppler Effect — approach of detecting the expansion of the universe, since some scientists speculate that other unknown reasons can cause the redshift while Gravitational Waves are unique to the Inflation of the Universe — expansion at faster than the speed of light at the beginning.

Depending on whether or not scientists are observing a photon (using extremely delicate equipment), it either acts like a particle or both a particle and a wave at the same time.

To explain the shadow zone, scientists reasoned that Earth's presumed liquid core deflected P - waves from their expected trajectories, so they wouldn't be recorded at all seismographic stations.

Unlike previous gravitational wave detections, which were heralded with news conferences often featuring panels of scientists squinting at journalists under bright...

Scientists studying gravitational waves would likely benefit the most from further studies of black holes hidden at the Milky Way's core.

Unlike previous gravitational wave detections, which were heralded with news conferences often featuring panels of scientists squinting at journalists under bright lights, this was a low - key announcement.

The research team, led by University of Hawaii scientists, analyzed future climate trends by looking at studies of past heat waves.

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.

On December 26, 2015, at 03:38:53 UTC, scientists observed gravitational waves — ripples in the fabric of spacetime — for the second time.

The C - shaped structure, which lasted at least four Earth days, could be a gravity wave, a large disturbance in the flow of a fluid or air, scientists say.

A computer simulation of two black holes merging into one created recently by scientists at the University of Texas and the Theoretical Astrophysics Centre in Copenhagen should provide them with a detailed idea of what type of gravity waves to expect.

When the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory, LIGO, glimpsed gravitational waves from two merging black holes, scientists were surprised at how large the black holes were — about 30 times the mass of the sun (SN: 3/5/16, p. 6).

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.

«Originally, we created these as an educational tool for visualizing concepts and ideas — in place of a blackboard and hand waving — to help people see things they never did before,» says Thomas DeFanti, a research scientist at UC San Diego's California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, and a pioneer of virtual reality systems.

These top employers ensure that their scientists surf that wave with agility, passion for what they do, and creativity to arrive at technologies that will transform lives.

Scientists led by Durham University's Institute for Computational Cosmology ran the huge cosmological simulations that can be used to predict the rate at which gravitational waves caused by collisions between the monster black holes might be detected.

While the new study looks at long - term trends, some scientists have also begun to evaluate the influence of climate change on individual heat wave events — and they're making some worrying discoveries, as well.

Scientists measuring brain activity have found that in many regions, such as the sensory or motor cortex, activity sometimes oscillates at different frequencies, forming wave - like patterns.

«When scientists designed the mission and the instrumentation on the probes, they looked at the scientific unknowns and said, «This is a great chance to unlock some fundamental knowledge about how particles are accelerated,»» said Nicola J. Fox, deputy project scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. «With five identical suites of instruments on board twin spacecraft — each with a broad range of particle and field and wave detection — we have the best platform ever created to better understand this critical region of space above Earth.»

Measuring earthquake waves that travel deep inside the planet, the scientists were able to retrieve images of what goes on inside the earth's mantle at a depth of about 3,000 kilometers.

For more than a decade, scientists have been manipulating electromagnetic waves with metamaterials — assemblages of conductors and insulators patterned at length scales shorter than the waves themselves.

Scientists are learning how to detect and recognize those waves by studying supercomputer models run at two NASA campuses, the Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, California, and the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

In a March report in Geophysical Research Letters scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) describe how large waves can penetrate more deeply into ice cover and break it up faster and more completely than anyone had suspected.

To understand gravity better, scientists are looking for gravitational waves, ripples in space - time that result from things like black holes colliding and stars exploding, according to Amber Stuver, a physicist at Louisiana's Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO).

Scientists from Los Alamos, Argonne National Laboratory and National Security Technologies LLC generated shock waves in cerium samples using the state - of - the - art IMPact system for ULtrafast Synchrotron Experiments (IMPULSE), which was developed specifically for use at the Advanced Photon Source (APS), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Argonne.

By looking at those two types of waves, scientists determined the Lop Nor incident was a natural earthquake, not a secretive explosion.

But scientists ultimately arrived at the conclusion that light is both a particle (photon) and a wave.

At the same time, he says scientists shouldn't shy away from painting «scary scenarios» — such as deadly heat waves in New York City and a dried - up Mississippi River as possible results of global warming — to get a message across.

In the copper - oxide material, instead of raising the temperature, the scientists raise the level of doping to «melt» the density waves at a particular «critical point.»

«Scientists have been performing body - wave tomography with signals from earthquakes and explosives for decades,» said study coauthor Jesse Lawrence, an assistant professor of geophysics at Stanford.

Typically, scientists define a marine heat wave as at least five consecutive days of unusually high temperatures for a particular ocean region or season.

Coastal altimetry, which provides detailed wave and sea level data in the coastal zone captured by specialist instruments called radar altimeters on board satellites, is at the heart of the project and scientists from NOC have been at the cutting - edge of this technique.

Scientists seeking to understand the forces at work beneath the surface of Earth have used seismic waves to detect previously unknown «fingers» of heat, some of them thousands of miles long, in Earth's upper mantle.

Optical physicists have been using spiraling laser beams, in which light waves are twisted into vortices, for almost 30 years, says Jo Verbeeck, a materials scientist at the University of Antwerp in Belgium and first author on the Nature paper.

In effect, gravitational - wave telescopes allow scientists to «hear» phenomena at the same time as light - based telescopes «see» them.

Two scientists here at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) found that a distinctive pattern formed by the wave blocked incoming Pacific storms from coming onshore in the winters of 2013 and 2014, keeping the state unusually dry.

The scientists announced that a radio telescope located at the South Pole had discovered gravitational waves generated by the Big Bang.

Scientists suspect some sources: the Big Bang itself, shock waves from supernovas collapsing into black holes, and matter accelerated as it is sucked into massive black holes at the centers of galaxies.

«It's just like surfing, like catching a wave,» says Henry Freund, a long - time free electron laser scientist and vice president at Science Applications International Corporation.

«After that 2004 European heat wave paper, the floodgates really opened, and more scientists were interested in looking at individual events,» Cullen said.

Scientists at the Ruhr - University Bochum have investigated this phenomenon and show for the first time how simultaneous counterchange of luminance at the borders between object and background triggers activity waves in the visual brain.

Judging from geological traces of two even older tsunami deposits, Koji Minoura, an Earth scientist at Tohoku University in Sendai, and his colleagues proposed in 2001 that giant waves visit the region about every 800 - 1,100 years (K. Minoura et al..

Scientists studying these materials at Brookhaven and elsewhere have discovered special types of electronic states, such as «charge density waves,» where charges huddle to form stripes, and checkerboard patterns of charge.

Scientists at McMurdo Station detected unusual atmospheric waves with an altitude between 30 to 115 kilometers (20 to 70 miles) above Antarctica in 2011.

This research by a guy named Marcus Raichle at Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis, the reason why he start [ed] to look at it was he began to wonder [whether]-- all this brain wave activity when we look at, when scientists look at brainwave activity, they typically strip out what you and I would call noise.