If living organisms were in the samples, they were expected to process the nutrients in the experiments and release a detectable gas containing carbon.
I ended up being the courageous one, explaining the situation to the customs agent and declaring the merchandise as the commercial samples they were.
In the lab in Liberia, Lisa Hensley and her colleagues had noticed something eerie in some of the blood samples they were testing.
Because of similarities in the pollen samples, they were able to confirm that the fossil flower belongs to the Asteraceae family.
By the time of the Apollo sample returns, scientists had refined this art, and, using meteorite samples, they were already investigating the early history of the solar system.
Because of the complexity of the samples, they were not able to reconstruct the entire genomes of each of the gut bacteria, just the individual genes.
After the calcination of the synthesized samples, they were characterized by N2 adsorption and Raman spectroscopy.
This dataset containing 73,469 patterns (37,127 benign samples they were chosen from the Pcaps from National Cyber Watch Mid-Atlantic Collegiand Cyber Defense Competition and 36,342 malicious samples they were chosen from http://malware-traffic-analysis.net/) [49].
After measuring the weights of the fecal samples, they were crushed by a mortar to achieve a uniform powder.
In order to verify the presence of Eu in the doped samples, they were analyzed by energy-dispersive spectroscopy [EDS].
To prepare the SEM samples, they were well-polished and thermally etched for 15 min at 750°C.
