instrument
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With financial support from Biohub, Müller acquired an advanced cryo-EM instrument and equipped it with the new laser phase plate.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
Her team's instrument uses two lasers rather than one, building on theoretical research conducted by Müller and his collaborators.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
“What was interesting about this conglomeration is that nobody was feeling territorial or proprietary about an instrument or a contribution.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
It would also examine why the Cali Fund -- a UN financial instrument launched in February 2025 aiming to attract $1 billion a year in corporate contributions -- had raised only $6,000.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
What an instrument is made of has a direct effect on its timbre.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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The car’s infotainment system is built on Google’s Android Automotive OS, which allows the car’s native apps, including Google Maps, to have deeper integration with its electronics and instruments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
However, making these instruments smaller has traditionally meant compromising their performance.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
Hemoglobin is much smaller and lies near the lower size limit of proteins that conventional cryo-EM instruments can reliably analyze.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
Another option is to shift your portfolio allocations toward more fixed income — Treasury products, corporate bonds, dividend stocks, cash instruments like CDs or even just high-yield savings accounts.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
The more than nineteen thousand recovered objects have provided invaluable insights into topics ranging from previously unknown methods of ancient naval warfare to the earliest history of musical instruments.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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The Blue Origin spacecraft will also carry an instrumented lunar surface spacesuit mass simulator.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands, a U.S. naval facility, is the world's largest instrumented, "multi-dimensional" testing and training missile range, according to the U.S.
From Fox News ● Feb. 22, 2022
"This is the most heavily instrumented vehicle we will ever fly so we will get a tremendous amount of engineering data on vibration and temperature and stress, acoustics," said Mr Shannon.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2021
“We’ve got bad-actor volcanoes that aren’t optimally instrumented to the level that they should be,” he said.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 15, 2020
We are unlikely to determine the answer to this question without landing instrumented space vehicles on the Titanian surface.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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“We are instrumenting the car in a way that is overloading the driver just like we were overloading the helicopter pilots,” said Strayer, director of the university’s Center for the Prevention of Distracted Driving.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2022
This can be a result of budgetary constraints, the difficulty of instrumenting treacherous volcanoes and, in some cases, red tape preventing the placement of sensors in wilderness areas.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2021
“And we need to rethink what this instrumenting of the world — all that data being generated and collected — means for privacy and how all this data is used.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2015
Yet little has been done to probe the underlying crust and mantle, mainly because instrumenting the entire state is so expensive.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 5, 2013
Niels and I get to work carefully instrumenting the sleep logger and attaching it to the bird.
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2011
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