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
It’s hard when you’ve spent 32 years of your adult life with Peter Buck — it’s hard to find someone who has that same enthusiasm and love of the instrument.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
One of Sentinel-3C's first images, captured on September 30 by its ocean and land color instrument, offers a remarkable natural-color view of Italy and its surrounding seas.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 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
Johnston was taking over for Harry Glicken, and he needed to know how to use the new instrument.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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Both research teams are working with Thermo Fisher Scientific, the leading manufacturer of cryo-EM instruments.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
“When debt instruments offer higher returns, the opportunity cost of holding gold, which pays no interest, increases,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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 recent backlash against AI-generated music has prompted “a reversion back to the real” with bands using more instruments and needing more space to record, Mihalka said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
“Everybody knows Sounds are the best. They're always super chill and relaxed. Have the best lounge with all the instruments in it,” one said.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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The Blue Origin spacecraft will also carry an instrumented lunar surface spacesuit mass simulator.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
I worked at the facility from 1973 to 1976, and Metro’s 1000-series cars were instrumented and running around loops to identify problem areas.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2023
We're the only sport that has done this type of work with instrumented mouthguards.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2022
When NASA’s most powerful rocket ever attempts its first flight this month, its highest profile payload will be three instrumented mannequins, setting off on a 42-day journey beyond the Moon and back.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 15, 2022
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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