Word: detectors
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...Supreme Court left intact the conviction of a St. Louis man on charges of marijuana-growing despite the fact that the FBI nabbed him using data gathered by flying over his house in a helicopter equipped with an infra-red detector. Joseph Pinson claimed that the FBI obtained the evidence -- later used as a basis for a search warrant -- illegally in July 1991. But a lower court, in affirming Pinson's conviction, said "Pinson did not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the heat emanated from his home." The Supreme Court, acting without comment, left intact Pinson's conviction...
Smith's story began to crumble even before she failed the first of two lie- detector tests. Police continued to give her the benefit of the doubt, at least in public; extreme stress or medication could make the test results inconclusive, they noted. But some neighbors, too, began to wonder. Catherine Frost lives across the street from Smith's tidy little brick house. She heard about the crime on the police scanner she keeps in her bedroom. She supported Smith in the crisis, but the story nagged at her. "Ain't no carjacker going to put a lady...
...senior research scientist at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases: "If you're a monkey imported from the Philippines, your first stop when you hit this country is a quarantine facility. If you're a free-ranging adult human being, you just go through the metal detector and you're on your...
Brandenburg, Huth and Professor of Physics Melissa Franklin helped design the three story high 5,000-ton detector which recorded the quarks emitted...
...remember that odds that seem like a sure bet at a racetrack are not enough to support scientific claims. Over the coming months, the lingering uncertainty that surrounds last week's announcement should be dispelled as more data are collected, not just by CDF but by a rival detector that goes by the name of DZero. If the top really is out there, as most physicists believe, then it will gradually come into focus. If not, even greater excitement will ensue. For if the top quark is not creating those bursts of particles deep inside the detector, then what...