Sentences with phrase «at tiny scales»

To find the right balance of moisture and temperature in a specialized type of hydrogen fuel cell, Berkeley Lab scientists have used X-rays to explore the inner workings of its components at tiny scales.

The integrated HPCAT facility has established four operating beamlines in nine hutches An array of novel X-ray diffraction — imaging at tiny scales — and spectroscopic techniques to reveal chemistry, has been integrated with high pressure and extreme temperature instrumentation.

The ability to probe such exquisite physical phenomena at these tiny scales is why ORNL purchased the HERMES.»

CAN the way the universe behaves at the tiniest scales be recreated in the lab?

At this tiny scale — called the Planck scale gravity, which is usually much weaker than the other fundamental forces, becomes very powerful.

Theoretically, you could pattern metamaterials at that tiny scale using specialized methods like focused beams of charged atoms, but such materials would be difficult to mass - produce.

«What it takes to do things right at a bigger scale is more than it costs to do them right at a tiny scale,» he said.

A literate Oakland addition: Another new effort, though at the tiny scale of 400 square feet, is Gallery 2301.

In representational and abstract paintings inspired by nature, his works capture enormous subjects at a tiny scale.

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The physicists calculated that tiny fibers called «fractals,» because they look the same when viewed at different scales, can trap electrons dislodged from the interior surfaces by other electrons zooming in from the plasma.

Since this whirling BEC superfluid is operating at a quantum scale, where tiny distances and low temperatures reign, the physical characteristics of its rotation are not those seen in the classical world.

Researchers use the large - scale facilities at DESY to explore the microcosm in all its variety — ranging from the interaction of tiny elementary particles to the behaviour of innovative nanomaterials and the vital processes that take place between biomolecules to the great mysteries of the universe.

In the quantum world, physicists study the tiny particles that make up our classical world — neutrons, electrons, photons — either one at a time or in small numbers because the behaviour of the particles is completely different on such a small scale.

An imaging technique that freezes tiny biological objects such as proteins and viruses in place so that scientists can peer into their structures at the scale of atoms has won its developers the 2017 Nobel Prize in chemistry.

String theory is a popular shot at bringing together two disparate scales — the tiny world of quantum particles, where the standard model holds sway, and the cosmic distances over which gravity acts.

To map the minute landscape of molecules, at scales as tiny as just tenths of a nanometer, and help decipher their functions, structural biologists have long relied on two tools: nuclear magnetic resonance, or NMR, spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography.

To study the snakes as they moved through sand, Sharpe — from Georgia Tech's Interdisciplinary Bioengineering Program — and undergraduate Robyn Kuckuk, from the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, glued tiny lead markers onto the scales of the snakes.

Researchers have touted nanotechnology — an array of techniques that allow the manipulation of matter at the atomic scale — as the next big thing, producing everything from better materials to tiny robots.

It can be easily distinguished by its spherical acorns covered with a dense pattern of irregularly placed scales that completely conceal the nut, except for a tiny opening at the top, and which are arranged in dense clusters on upright spikes.

Such stacking results in properties vastly different from those of the parent layers, allowing for customized electronic engineering at the tiniest possible scale.

Taking child's play with building blocks to a whole new level - the nanometer scale - scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have constructed 3D «superlattice» multicomponent nanoparticle arrays where the arrangement of particles is driven by the shape of the tiny building blocks.

«If we are successful, the tiny size and massive scale of this device could provide the opportunity for transformational interfaces to the brain, including direct interfaces to the visual cortex that would allow patients who have lost their sight to discriminate complex patterns at unprecedented resolutions.

However, by combining the capabilities of the Surface Forces Apparatus (SFA)-- a device that can measure the tiny forces generated by the interaction of two surfaces at the sub-nano scale — and simultaneous imaging using a fluorescence microscope, the researchers were able to see in real time how the cell membranes rearrange in order to connect and open a fusion conduit between them.

Vuletic says that at the nanoscale, friction may exact a greater force — for instance, creating wear and tear on tiny motors much faster than occurs at larger scales.

Catherine Carr, a neuroscientist at the University of Maryland, College Park, agrees that the study is «very exciting» — particularly because the katydids have overcome the problem of impedance matching «on such a tiny scale.»

The technique, developed by researchers at Sheffield University, uses the phenomenon of laser «speckle»: no surface is uniformly smooth at the atomic scale and, when laser light reflects off it, the roughness caused by the individual atoms creates interference in the wavefronts so that the reflected light seems to scintillate, with tiny bright and dark patches.

But this description starts to fall down on the tiniest scales, and the search is on for a new theory that describes gravity at the quantum level and unites it with the other forces.

He and his colleagues plan an experiment that will attempt to measure how information, matter and spacetime behave at the tiniest of scales — the Planck scale.

Some of these properties are so short - lived and occur at such tiny scales that they remain shrouded in mystery.

«On the sun, these large scale energy releases are driven by small scale physical processes,» said Clarence Korendyke, principal investigator for VERIS at the United States Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. «So we need to look at and understand the tiny details of those processes.»

Cosmologists expected these tiny temperature differences to be distributed at random, but in 2003, when NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) satellite surveyed the CMB and mapped the fluctuations at different scales, some unexpected patterns emerged.

«We're trying to see the process at extremely tiny length scales, and this is the first time we're getting a spatial resolution that even approaches that.

But A.C.T. officials downplayed the signficance of the tiny rise — a tenth of a point on a scale of 36 — and standardized - test critics voiced alarm at test results showing a slight increase in the «gender gap» between male and female students.

First, the report is a small - scale pilot study of assignments at six middle schools in two urban districts — a tiny and unrepresentative sample.

However that is a tiny fraction of the water we actually consume because it takes 250 - 650 gallons of water to grow a pound of rice, 130 gallons to grow a pound of wheat, 65 gallons to grow a pound of potatoes, 3,000 gallons to make a quarter - pound burger (assuming the cow is grain fed) and 500 - 1,000 gallons to create a quart of milk, a pound of sugar can take 400 gallons of water to grow and a pound of coffee tips the scales at 2,650 gallons of water!

If he were tinier a handful of nuts could satisfy him, but at his scale one's appetites also get larger.

While technically true, it's also largely irrelevant, because those «extra» dollars — even if they add up to a significant total — only end up going to a tiny handful of authors at the very top of traditional - publishing's pay scale.

The fund is tiny, mediocre and running at a loss of.68 %, so this is a marketing move rather than an adjustment to the economies of scale.

With Carl the Crab at your side, you'll craft tools, fend off threatening creatures, and catch and collect food you'll cook up yourself — all in the effort of surviving on your tiny room - scale - sized desert island.

Margaret Gould Stewart, Facebook's director of product design, outlines three rules for design at such a massive scale — one so big that the tiniest of tweaks can cause global outrage, but also so large that the subtlest of improvements can positively impact the lives of many.

At that time, she was painting small scale works, painted in Maine and New York City, landscapes combined with still lifes and goldfish using tiny triple 000 sable brushes.

Previously known for mixed - media paintings (seen last year at Mier Gallery in L.A.), the Brooklyn - born artist debuts a single, large - scale sculpture that is intended to appear too large for the tiny, one - room gallery.

When David Hockney exhibited his 12 - metre - wide landscape «Bigger Trees Near Warter» at the Royal Academy's 2007 Summer Exhibition, he gave the world a glimpse of a tiny corner of East Yorkshire, albeit on a monumental scale.

The artist Louise Fishman, primarily known for her large - scale abstract paintings, is the subject of two forthcoming exhibitions: «Louise Fishman: A Retrospective,» a fifty - year survey show at the Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase, opening on April 3, 2016, and running through July 31, 2016; and «Paper Louise Tiny Fishman Rock,» an idiosyncratic presentation -LSB-...]

Then, in that tiny incarnation, as in its subsequent, full - scale, «recalled» versions — most recently in Chaimowicz's solo show, «An Autumn Lexicon», at London's Serpentine Gallery last year (where it was also first shown)-- it produced the same effect: it is an oblique glimpse of itself.

Look at these images in reproduction, on a tiny scale in the comfort of your own home, and they may well appear absurd, the white hawthorn bursting out in great maggoty slugs, the shadows making glove puppet bunnies.

Other featured artists include Anita Arliss, whose mixed - media canvases are included in the permanent art installations at Hartsfield - Jackson Atlanta International Airport; Bethany Collins, who recently completed a residency at the Studio Museum in Harlem; and Justin Rabideau, who salvages wood from new construction sites and houses on the verge of collapse to create scaled pieces — from very tiny wall pieces to very large installations and large - scale sculptures — for his brightly - colored «Shim» series.

You can be either captured by the majesty or tiny intricacies of scale but also be surprised at the unexpected touches.

How Richter evolved from his earlier photo - based paintings to the Abstraktes Bilds is lesser known, however, and this painting (one of his earliest abstractions) is a key in that transition: to make it he put an earlier canvas under the microscope and painted a tiny square of it at greatly expanded scale.