Sentences with phrase «by the atom z3745»

What Boger wants is to create a better way to develop drugs: through a process called structure - based design in which scientists build up a new drug, atom by atom, after determining the type of molecule that might interrupt the disease process.

Our technology is based on a variant of chemical vapor deposition, which builds the diamond lattice atom by atom in a reactor that creates a plasma akin to the outer core of the sun.

Let us think of an electron microscope giving the situation of a target T with an atom A in the target with an electron coming in and being scattered by the atom.

Ultimately, the whole natural world can in principle be explained by atoms moving in relation to one another according to the laws of motion.

The extreme view that a person is «just a collection of atoms» is less persuasive in the light of tracer studies showing that the atoms in our bodies are replaced every few years; 6 the self that continues must be constituted by the relationships and patterns among atoms, rather than by the atoms in themselves.

5The following report by V. Lowe is characteristic of the vagueness of Whitehead's statements about this: «When I asked Whitehead whether the emission of a single quantum of energy by an atom should be considered an actual occasion, he replied, «Probably a whole shower of actual occasions.»»

The complex pattern of memories, aspirations and actions which make up a character were carried for a time by the atoms of her body, but we believe they are also stored up in the Cloud of God's being.

«Smallest hard disk to date writes information atom by atom.»

Photons that enter the crystal at one end bounce back and forth between these «mirrors» a few thousand times before they can escape, which increases their likelihood of getting absorbed by an atom along the way.

It is not currently feasible to engineer a material atom by atom, let alone control the quadrupolar behavior of electrons.

Fashioning individual molecules atom by atom could allow researchers to study atomic collisions in the most controlled environment possible, as well as to observe how molecules behave in isolation.

Because chlorine is only weakly bonded to carbon, it can be easily substituted by another atom to make a new molecule.

Until now, to overcome the experimental difficulties behind «photographing «proteins, scientists used theoretical models to simulate protein movements, atom by atom.

The revolution began quietly in 1981, when Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer at IBM in Zurich invented the scanning tunneling microscope (STM), which could read a surface atom by atom.

When neutrons pass through a crystal or a liquid, some are deflected by atoms and produce «diffraction patterns».

Element 110, which has an atomic mass of 269, was detected while atoms of lead were being bombarded by atoms of nickel.

In space, the cosmic microwave background was scattered by atoms and electrons and became polarized too.

Instead, each particle of light, or photon, is briefly absorbed by an atom in the material.

The town of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was built by the atom.

Bismuth ferrite is an antiferromagnetic, which means that the magnetic moments of its magnetic sublattices (structures formed by atoms with the same parallel spins) cancel each other out, and the total magnetization of the material is close to zero.

«In step toward controlling chemistry, physicists create a new molecule, atom by atom: Study paves the way for creating on, off buttons for chemical reactions.»

Despite existing in a solid and being surrounded by atoms, these electrons can sometimes behave just like free electrons, albeit with an «effective mass» that may be different than the free electron mass.

The genie was the «photon», the bullet - like particle that Einstein invented to explain how light was able to knock electrons from metals and which he claimed was spat out and swallowed by atoms.

The resulting ripples depend on the gravitational acceleration felt by the atoms.

But the element is flanked on all sides of the table by atoms that take very different bonding strategies.

Some of the light passes through its atmosphere and key wavelengths of light are absorbed by atoms in the atmosphere leaving a fingerprint of its makeup.

Vuletic then engineered a second surface: an ion crystal — essentially, a grid of charged atoms — in order to study friction's effects, atom by atom.

«Atom by atom, bond by bond, a chemical reaction caught in the act.»

«Moving this «atomic finger» back and forth over the silver surface is like reading Braille, as if we were feeling the small atomic - scale bumps made by the atoms.»

«Our analysis show that we should be able to achieve atom - atom - interactions, where the interaction mechanism is not by atom hopping (as in free space optical lattices) but by exchange of photons,» Alejandro González - Tudela says.

«Whatever we find at the poles probably built up atom by atom, molecule by molecule, from impacts all over the globe,» he says.

Atoms can be cooled using lasers because light particles from the laser beam are absorbed and re-emitted by the atoms, causing them to lose some of their kinetic energy.

Dr. John Randall is an adjunct professor at UT Dallas and president of Zyvex Labs, a Richardson, Texas - based nanotechnology company specializing in developing tools and products that fabricate structures atom by atom.

«By building structures atom by atom, you're able to create new, extraordinary materials,» said Randall, who is co-chair of the Jonsson School's Industry Engagement Committee.

A Bose - Einstein condensate is a state of matter created by atoms at ultracold temperatures, close to absolute zero.

Even if it were possible, mainstream neuroscientists say, reengineering the brain at the level of detail envisioned by Markram would tell us nothing about cognition, memory or emotion — just as copying the hardware in a computer, atom by atom, would tell us little about the complex software running on it.

This will help us learn how nanoparticles grow atom by atom, and it sets the stage for a materials - design approach starting from the smallest building blocks,» says Mary Scott, who conducted the research while she was a Foundry user, and who is now a staff scientist.

Working with Paul Kent, a computational materials scientist at ORNL's Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, the team collaborated with researchers at UCLA and Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry to combine world - class experimental data with world - class computing to do something new — simulate magnetism atom by atom in a real nanoparticle.

What would happen if we could arrange the atoms one by one the way we want them (within reason, of course; you can't put them so that they are chemically unstable, for example)... The principles of physics, as far as I can see, do not speak against the possibility of maneuvering things atom by atom.

A crystal is really just a very large macromolecule, and could be used for richly varied complex chemistry if assembled atom by atom into desired shapes with strategically placed defects and dopants.

«The principles of physics, as far as I can see, do not speak against the possibility of maneuvering things atom by atom.»

Normally, friction is caused by atoms rubbing against each other, but the gas around supermassive black holes is so dilute that atoms rarely collide with each other.

There's some promise in the fact that Devil's Knot was directed by Atom Egoyan, whose last great film, 1997's The Sweet Hereafter, dealt with a town grieving a collective loss.

Ryan Reynolds (Matthew) in a scene from the movie «The Captive,» directed by Atom Egoyan.

Directed by Atom Egoyan; scripted by Paul Harris Boardman, Scott Derrickson.

**** / **** Image B Sound B + Extras C starring Bruce Greenwood, Mia Kirshner, Don McKellar, Elias Koteas written and directed by Atom Egoyan

Her feature credits include «Chloe,» directed by Atom Egoyan, and Screen Gems» upcoming thriller «The Roommate» with Leighton Meester.

«Introducing Chloe: The Making of Chloe Directed by Atom Egoyan» (25:40) wields a length and weight befitting its title.

Directed and cowritten by Atom Egoyan, The Captive follows several characters as they attempt to solve the mystery of a little girl's abduction - with the child's parents (Ryan Reynolds» Matthew and Mireille Enos» Tina) quickly coming under suspicion by a pair of detectives (Rosario Dawson's Nicole and Scott Speedman's Jeffrey).

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