Sentences with phrase «tiny particles called»

The team found the terpenes react in the air to form tiny particles called aerosols.

But in fact, the electricity is carried by tiny particles called electrons that slowly drift through...

In addition one Nobel Prize - winning scientist, Paul Crtuzen, suggests that tiny particles called sulfates can act as a cosmic sunscreen by blocking the sun's rays from reaching Earth.

Tiny particles called aerosols would have to be pumped high into the atmosphere (higher than where jet planes fly).

Duke University researchers have developed a prototype device that uses sound waves to separate tiny particles called exosomes from blood samples.

Clouds need tiny particles called aerosols that rise in the atmosphere, in order to form.

The second scientific instrument carried aboard Glory is designed to measure how tiny particles called aerosols influence Earth's climate.

In an unlikely marriage of quantum physics and neuroscience, tiny particles called quantum dots have been used to control brain cells for the first time.

But in fact, the electricity is carried by tiny particles called electrons that slowly drift through the wires.

The theory was that all matter are made of tiny particles called atoms.

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16,000 babies are born early in the United States because of a little tiny thing called PM 2.5: Particle matter 2 and a half nitron soot.

The nose is an amazing filter lined with tiny hairs called «cilia», which help to filter, humidify and warm or cool air, therefore protecting your body from particles of foreign matters.

This outer material, called regolith, is created over time, as tiny impacts pulverize the surface of each particle.

Most carbon emissions linked to human activity are in the form of carbon dioxide gas (CO2), but other forms of carbon include the methane gas (CH4) and the particles generated by such fires — the tiny bits of soot, called black carbon, and motes of associated substances known as brown carbon.

Tiny plastic particles smaller than five millimeters, so - called microplastics, are found in almost all waterbodies these days.

In this so - called «flow battery,» the electrodes are suspensions of tiny particles carried by a liquid and pumped through various compartments of the battery.

In it, they describe a process by which nanodiamonds — tiny diamond particles 10,000 times smaller than the diameter of a hair — curtail the electrochemical deposition, called plating, that can lead to hazardous short - circuiting of lithium ion batteries.

The group, he explains, was trying different recipes for converting their HKUST - 1, which is normally a powder of tiny crystalline particles, into something called a sol - gel, a continuous network of those particles.

On September 13 and 14, Cassini took a last look around the Saturn system's greatest hits, taking a color mosaic image of Saturn and the rings, a movie sequence of Enceladus setting behind Saturn, Titan and tiny moonlets in the rings that pull the icy ring particles around themselves to form features called propellers.

Other tiny solid and liquid particles called aerosols are also being transported around the atmosphere, but these are largely invisible to our eyes.

To investigate the layers and composition of clouds and tiny airborne particles like dust, smoke and other atmospheric aerosols,, scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland have developed an instrument called the Cloud - Aerosol Transport System, or CATS.

When they worked it all out, they determined they could explain the universe with something they called string theory, which replaces the pointlike particles in particle physics with tiny, elongated vibrating strings.

One of the secrets to making tiny laser devices such as opthalmic surgery scalpels work even more efficiently is the use of tiny semiconductor particles, called quantum dots.

In addition, the scientists studded the outside of the particle with so - called aptamers — tiny proteins that link directly to cancer cells while avoiding regular cells.

Recent modeling along with previously published results from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft — short for Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging, a mission that observed Mercury from 2011 to 2015 — has shed new light on how certain types of comets influence the lopsided bombardment of Mercury's surface by tiny dust particles called micrometeoroids.

But these days most neuroscientists agree that a tiny particle form of the same protein, called an oligomer, is the primary toxin in the illness.

That's the conclusion of a team of scientists using a new approach to study tiny atmospheric particles called aerosols that can influence climate by absorbing or reflecting sunlight and seeding clouds.

Tiny microscopic animals called zooplankton are ingesting plastic particles at an alarming rate, according to a new study by Dr. Peter Ross, head of the Ocean Pollution Research Program at Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre.

Some atmospheric VOCs combine with oxygen to form tiny airborne particles called oxygenated VOCs (oVOCs), which insulate the atmosphere and lead to warming.

These children lived in neighborhoods that, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, had excess nitrogen dioxide and tiny air pollution particles that are generated by automobiles and power plants, formally called particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5).

«These proteins are in very tiny nerve cell - derived blood particles called exosomes.

The findings are consistent with the idea, first proposed nearly 40 years ago, that animals have tiny magnetic particles of an iron - containing compound called magnetite in their bodies.

The next step was to soak the plants in that solution and pressurize them, which causes the particles to enter the leaves through tiny pores called stomata.

Possible reasons revolve around tiny natural and manmade particles called aerosols that serve as seeds for cloud droplets to form around.

particulates Also called particle pollution (or PM), this is a mixture of very tiny particles and droplets that can include soot, dust, metals, acids and a host of other chemicals.

Tiny grains of silicon dioxide — also called silica — make up most of this ring's particles, the researchers found.

A team of scientists led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory atmospheric researcher Dr. Susannah Burrows and collaborator Daniel McCoy, who studies clouds and climate at the University of Washington, reveal how tiny natural particles given off by marine organisms — airborne droplets and solid particles called aerosols — nearly double cloud droplet numbers in the summer, which boosts the amount of sunlight reflected back to space.

Results: Tiny bits of atmospheric dust and particles called aerosols may play a big role in global climate change, but just how big a role is not well understood.

The existence of these tiny particles, called neutrinos, was first predicted by Wolfgang Pauli in 1931, and experimentally confirmed by Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines in 1956.

Eating gluten over time weakens the digestive system which can start a process called Leaky Gut syndrome where tiny cracks develop in the protective intestinal lining letting undigested food particles into the blood stream.

Most electronic ink and paper screens use a technology called electrophoresis, which sounds complex but simply means using electricity to move tiny particles (in this case ink) through a fluid (in this case a liquid or gel).

Yes I mean little because you are a tiny particle, called a mote, that needs to absorb smaller organisms in order to grow while fending off predators and other challenges.

It forms from a single irritating particle called a nidus, which consists of a tiny particle such as a mineral crystal.

The paintings» recent motifs arose from research into tiny sub-atomic particles called quarks and the diagrams representing their construction.

When you wash those synthetic fabrics, tiny particles of plastic called microfibers are washed down the drain and released into the environment.

The one that's most notable is something that's called marine cloud brightening, where tiny particles are added to existing clouds over the oceans, in order to brighten them and reflect away more sunlight.

Like other tiny atmospheric particles called aerosols, black carbon (BC) has a short lifetime in the atmosphere of about a week because it is removed by rain or snow.

Over the last century, tiny airborne particles called aerosols, which cool the climate by absorbing and reflecting sunlight, have largely cancelled out the effects of GHG emissions on tropical storm intensity, according to a new scientific review paper published in Science journal.

NASA's P - 3 research plane begins flights this month through both clouds and smoke over the South Atlantic Ocean to understand how tiny airborne particles called aerosols change the properties of clouds and how they influence the amount of incoming sunlight the clouds reflect or absorb.

Elsewhere, Hong also mentioned: «We figured out a way to integrate the antenna bands into the aluminum seamlessly so you can't feel the lines and covered the LM201b with primer and paint using a process called microdizing, which means that tiny particles of metal are infused in the coating and bonded to the aluminum.»