reconstruct
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By studying the magnetic minerals preserved in these materials, scientists can reconstruct how the Moon's magnetic environment changed over time.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026
To reconstruct how stress changed over centuries, the researchers developed a physics-based, four-dimensional earthquake cycle model.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
For more than a century, scientists have tried to reconstruct the biology of Tyrannosaurus rex from bones, teeth, footprints, and other traces left behind more than 60 million years ago.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
By studying chemical signatures locked inside the rocks, the team was able to reconstruct geological events dating back roughly 3.1 billion years.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
Juvenile records are sealed, so it’s impossible to reconstruct exactly what went down.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
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To do that, they used quantum tomography, a technique that reconstructs a quantum system by examining many different 'slices' of its behavior.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
In “The First Emancipation: The Forgotten History of Abolition in Revolutionary France,” Jeremy D. Popkin, a professor emeritus of history at the University of Kentucky, reconstructs the intricate political debates that preceded the 1794 law.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
In three-and-a-half hours and for less than $10 million, Corbet reconstructs post-war America from the ground up, proving his sweeping artistic vision to be just as impressive as László Tóth’s.
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2025
Besides Sabri, actors play Ghofrane and Rahma, the daughters who left, as Ben Hania reconstructs the family’s past in search for clues for their radicalization.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2024
The author reconstructs cleverly the life of one of the most cultivated nations of antiquity, and describes both wars and pageants with picturesque vigour.
From The Crack of Doom by Robert Cromie
He accepted AI was used "to distinguish and visualize features in the reconstructed grayscale images".
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
The study describes how the researchers reconstructed the sequence of changes preserved in Karelia's rocks following the first major increase in atmospheric oxygen.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
While people were grieving and exhausted, critical financial obligations had to be reconstructed, verified and settled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
This series of highly localised temperatures was reconstructed by Robert Rohde, chief scientist at the independent Berkeley Earth organisation in California.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
It was smaller than I had expected—as places reconstructed from borrowed memories inevitably are—but also duller and dustier.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Ms. Margolles purchased a home in the middle of this and demolished it, here reconstructing the rubble into a rectangular minimalist monument that stretches across a large gallery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
The discovery highlights the risks of reconstructing an extinct animal from only a small part of its skeleton.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
They also highlight the scientific importance of the Catalan fossil record for reconstructing the evolutionary history of vertebrates.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
When something goes wrong, however, reconstructing that journey can begin to feel like a real investigation.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
He still entertained a pair of opinions—or, to use his word, “concepts”—and, in reconstructing the crime, had developed both a “single-killer concept” and a “double-killer concept.”
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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