Both groups were equally good at thinking up ordinary uses for the objects.
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The museums making the bids must be on an approved list, showing that they have a curator and appropriate facilities to care for the objects.
If her accent reflects her German origins and decades living in England, her tone expresses undiluted enthusiasm for the objects she gets to study and elucidate to students, faculty and the public at large.
Sharp objects can no longer bring down aircraft, Hawley said, and the search for knives interferes with the search for objects that can threaten aircraft, he said.
Kip Hawley, who oversaw the TSA from 2005 to 2009, said the search for knives interferes with the search for objects such as bombs and toxins that can threaten aircraft.
One of the main tools that astronomers have for understanding objects in the universe is spectroscopy.
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The high-frequency sound from the transmitter produces sharp reflections of small objects for the same reason that an electron microscope (which operates at high frequencies) can see smaller things than a light microscope (which operates at low frequencies).
Another project for this year is to find a new Large Objects Store for the Museum.
The acronym stands for the categories of fixed objects aficionados can jump from: buildings, antennas, spans (bridges) and earth (cliffs, mountains).
NASA's Kepler telescope is permanently on the lookout for celestial objects of interest, and its latest discovery is a small one.
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The Khmer people have continued using this artistic legacy for the ornamentation of everyday objects, houses, monuments, in addition to public and religious buildings.
It is about 48 square feet, enough for a funerary bed and a few household objects (removed for the show) with little room to spare.
Only by pausing, adjusting the game, and deciding which objects to go for, the player will obtain results and become an even better player.
America's newly elected president won't be sworn in for a couple of months, but already the Smithsonian is gathering objects for a Barack Obama exhibit.
Once the work is completed, the heritage trust hopes to create a new 971 square metre exhibition space, allowing the museum to display some of the large industrial objects in its reserve collections for the first time.
Researchers, led by Takatoshi Shibuya of The Graduate University for Advanced Studies in Japan, counted 58, 733 objects in the image, and narrowed those down to two possible candidates for extremely distant galaxies.
The ultimate aim is for Nico to use a mirror to interpret objects around it, in the same way as humans use a rear-view mirror to look for cars.
Dr Hawass also lobbies for the return of other cultural objects deemed to be of great archaeological value to Egypt.
P5 was discovered a year later during a more intensive search for previously unseen objects orbiting the distant, dwarf planet.
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As anyone who has seen a shooting star can attest, it's hardly unprecedented for otherworldly objects to enter the Earth's atmosphere.
Smart companies are building new business models leveraging trends such as M2M which is simply the direct communication between objects and systems without the need for human intervention.
The reason is that skin does not reflect the laser in the same way as most other objects - meaning for those wishing to evade the camera's gaze, stripping naked is an option.
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The show earned McLane a Tony for one of his trademarks: the use of ordinary objects clustered in stunning ways.
In wistful moments, Wilner laments that the market for collecting period frames purely as art objects in and of themselves has never built up the head of steam he predicted.
For some they are objects of desire, for others simply protection for the sole.
Using metamaterials means the scheme should work for all objects, regardless of their shape.
The idea calls for everyday household objects like refrigerator magnets and bedside alarm clocks to display other useful information.
After all, Einstein, in his special theory of relativity, had shown that time slows down for objects moving close to the speed of light.
Founded in 1707, prior to the establishment of national museums, libraries and galleries in Britain, the society is exhibiting over 140 objects from its collection in North America for the first time.
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