Most imperiled species are rare or elusive and difficult to detect, which makes gathering data to estimate their response to habitat restoration a challenge.
If the effort is successful, Mavalvala says, it will also lead to much more sensitive instruments for LIGO, which is attempting to detect elusive phenomena called gravity waves.
But, they said, the clarity with which they saw nothing spurred hopes that such experiments are approaching the rigor and sensitivity necessary to detect the elusive gravitational glue of the cosmos.
After decades of tinkering with fiber optics, metal tubes, and plastic ribbons, scientists have discovered that all you need to detect an elusive form of electromagnetic ray is a bare metal wire.
With recent advancements on SNP array technology, it is now possible to detect previously elusive genetic variations with high resolution.
The role of p57 in cell-cycle control and its biological functions have been elusive, mainly for the difficulty to detect this protein in many cells and tissues as well as the fact that mice lacking p57 show strong developmental defects (Pateras et al, 2009).
In recent literature, magnetic nanoparticle label-based sorting has been used to detect and sort elusive circulating tumor cells.
The actual H. pylori ligand(s) of TLR2 are so far elusive and high efforts are made to detect the relevant contributors in activation.
But in these times of trouble, a minister prepared to defend scientists could prove as elusive as the neutrinos they are trying to detect.
Yes, reports coming out of the European Organization for Nuclear Research CERNN) that scientists who've been working tirelessly to detect traces of the elusive particle are set to make some sort of announcement this Wednesday about how they've got their hands on enough evidence to say with a certain level of confidence that the Higgs boson "almost certainly does exist" are tantalizing.
