Sentences with phrase «bigger than a dust»

To map the roughly 1300 connections, or synapses, between the cells, researchers used an electron microscope to take millions of nanoscopic pictures from a speck of tissue not much bigger than a dust mite, carved into nearly 3700 slices.

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In 2010, as the dust from the financial crisis settled, three women working in disparate parts of the economy noticed that startups in «hard science» (think biology or chemistry rather than tech) weren't getting the attention they deserved from big investors.

Now Technicolor has many DNA copies which, combined, are no bigger than a speck of dust.

From afar it had appeared to him, quite small, gliding over the sand, no bigger than the palm of a child's hand — as a pale, fleeting shadow like a wavering flight of quail over the blue sea before sunrise or a cloud of gnats dancing in the sun at evening or a whirlwind of dust at midday sweeping over the plain.

Anyhow rather take this short journey to death thinking I know the big man than to die and be nothing but dust (my spirit not the body, it will be dust) It gives life meaning if you die and you become nothing then it don't matter anyway.

If you're concerned about sticking, and don't want to dust with cornmeal, just cut a piece of baking paper to slightly bigger than your loaf, and place your loaf on that paper as soon as you have formed it.

Take a new sheet of baking paper just a little bigger than your sponge and dust it with either icing sugar or caster (super fine) sugar, this is what I used to give it the sparkling outside.

Around the same time, volcanoes a million times bigger than Mount Saint Helens erupted, spewing enormous clouds of dust and gas into the sky and covering the ground with 2 million square miles of molten lava.

Days 15 - 17: The embryo and all the membranes that surround it are no bigger than a speck of dust.

Comets are supposed to be big chunks of ice and dust — «dirty snowballs» in astronomical slang — but the most thorough study of a comet's surface to date reveals a bone - dry landscape that is hotter than the Sahara at noon.

Saturn's magnificent rings, for example, consist of trillions of bits of ice, some no bigger than a speck of dust, making up a weird and complex system of satellites.

Telescopes peering back in time to less than a billion years after the Big Bang have spotted individual galaxies with dust that weighs hundreds of millions of times as much as the sun.

It's a lab in the Centre for Nanoscience and Quantum Information at the University of Bristol, UK, and the diamonds stored here are each no bigger than a speck of dust.

These star - shaped grippers, made of gold - coated nickel and no bigger than specks of dust, start out in water in the open position.

A meteoroid is any interplanetary object bigger than a speck of dust and smaller than an asteroid.

The data also show that there are more dust devils in the martian summer, and they're much bigger than the ones occurring in the winter.

The walk out to Pluto, a speck of dust ten times smaller than our sand - grain Earth, would be nearly a half - kilometer, and along the way you'd be lucky to encounter any of the planets: Even the largest, Jupiter, would be no bigger than a small marble.

On January 10, 2005, astronomers using the infrared Spitzer Space Telescope announced that the dust disk is bigger than previously estimated (press release).

So, the biggest difference between AGN types is that Type Is are surrounded by more dust and gas, therefore rejecting more matter and fueling far higher energy emissions than Type IIs.

The soot from a candle is very similar to cosmic graphite dust, although the size of the grains in the soot are ten or more times bigger than typical grain sizes of cosmic graphite grains.

On January 10, 2005, astronomers using the infrared Spitzer Space Telescope announced that the dust disk is bigger than previously estimated and was probably created by collisions of protoplanetary objects as big as the planet Pluto, up to 2,000 kilometers (about 1,200 miles) in diameter (press release — more below).

The big bang visualizes matter smaller than dust falling in toward the black hole.

After surveying nearly 50 stars from 2008 to 2011, scientists have been able to determine with remarkable precision how much dust is around distant stars — a big step closer into finding planets than might harbor life.

The leading explanation is that Epsilon Aurigae consists of a yellow giant star orbited by a normal star slightly bigger than the Sun embedded in a thick disc of dust and gas oriented nearly edge on when viewed from Earth.

The halos around quasars — the brightest and the most active objects in the universe, they are galaxies formed less than 2 billion years after the Big Bang; they have supermassive black holes in their centers and consume stars, gas, interstellar dust and other material at a very fast rate — are made of gas known as the intergalactic medium and extend for up to 300,000 light - years from the centers of the quasars.

Dust a big baking sheet with more flour, then roll out the pastry on it to a rough circle, a little more than 0.5 cm thick.

It was super super hot, too hot for long sleeves and the lineup of music goes all day, from noon until midnight, so if you want to see more than half the bands on your lineup you're going to be hustling big time across a humongous field with backpack in tow, carrying waters, sunscreen, snacks, scarves for the dust etc..

When I boiled it down, the couch was a huge priority for me, so I released any idea to try and squeeze some bistro table in the corner that would do nothing more than collect dust, and instead went for the absolute biggest couch I could, and I LOVE it.

It's no surprise that Cannes has seen more brouhahas, dust - ups and finger - wagging than any other festival on Earth, and the biggest shockers of all are often saved for the awards ceremony on closing night.

The rise of the luxury sport - utility vehicle likely will be one of the biggest trends of the 1998 model year.Every automaker that has brought out a rugged - looking but spiffed - up sport - utility vehicle has scored a solid hit this year, even if the thing can't really go off - road very well.In fact, this week's test vehicle, the stylish new RX 300 from Lexus, is more of a pretender than a contender when it comes to kicking up some serious dust off road.But that's OK - because the RX 300 was not really made for that sort of driving.

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It's also a good size (not much bigger or thicker than a Nintendo DS Lite) and its clamshell design protects its screens against scratches, dust, and scuffs.

During the last big abrupt cooling, 12,900 years ago, Europe cooled down to Siberian temperatures within a decade (about ten-fold greater than in the Little Ice Age), the rainfall likely dropped by half, and fierce winter storms whipped a lot of dust into the atmosphere.

The big difference between this scenario is that the radiation from the lamp AND the radiation from the glass originate in materials at significantly higher temperatures than the gases and hence heat IS transferring from HOT to COLD unlike the fanciful «back radiative greenhouse effect» which truly defies the laws of Physics relying instead on pixie dust magic!

The outside world in fact, far from standing still, started offering a myriad of different solutions to consumers, from manufacturers like Samsung and LG — already far bigger than the Taiwanese OEM — switching to more premium materials — and thus bridging that crucial gap — to other Chinese companies offering cheaper and likewise «premium», metal - made phones (like Huawei), essentially leaving HTC in the dust.

The Android 8.0 Oreo handset packs a bigger 6 - inch Quad HD (2,560 x 1440 pixels) Super LCD display into a frame that's just a hair larger than its predecessor, while also adding IP68 water and dust resistance.

2016 was a very important year for Google and they discontinued the Nexus series and came out with a smartphone of their own named as GOOGLE PIXEL and PIXEL XL, a really great phone to be competed with big boys like Samsung galaxy and iPhone 7 plus, Pixel XL has pretty much the same specs and design like iPhone 7 with a better camera than iPhone 7 plus and GS 7 Edge with 12.3 megapixel with a wide lens, its splash and dust prof the metallic body adds elegance to the body, Google Pixel XL is actually a real treat for the people who liked the design of iPhone 7 plus but wanted to stick with the android OS.