Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Luck certainly played its part as I was in no way conducting a systematic search for comets," Williams says. "However, had I not made the effort to observe under full moon when most other amateur astronomers are inactive, who knows who else may have discovered this comet...
...comet appeared in his electronic search program for Near-Earth Objects, which regularly scans...
Unbeknownst to Tucker at the time, the LONEOS program, a professional search effort at Lowell Observatory, had already sighted the comet, but the program mistook the comet for a common Main Belt asteroid...
Tucker says he plans to use the financial award toward expanding the search capacity of his instrumentation...
Duke University Medical Center is one of the crown jewels of American medicine. In the labs, wards and classrooms spread out over the 210-acre medical campus in the North Carolina Piedmont, doctors are pushing hard against the limits of our imagination: tiptoeing electronically through the brain in search of hidden tumors, inventing vaccines that might turn lethal cancers into treatable ones, even breeding animals whose organs could one day be harvested for transplant to make up for the shortfall in human donors. These men and women muscled their way through college and medical school and internships and fellowships, just...