Sentences with phrase «dust motes»

In the long run, the scientists want neural dust motes in the brain and spinal cord.

Astronomers and physicists had long assumed that remote stars and galaxies drifted around at random, like dust motes in a sunbeam, while the universe itself remained static.

By taking two pictures of dust motes moving through the air and figuring out how far they moved in the time between photos, researchers can determine the speed of the air and any local eddies.

but in reality they are even too stained and sad to even be pressed into service wiping a flurry of dust motes off the dining room table.

Peter Buggenhout: «Caterpillar Logic II» (closes on Saturday) Conjuring space junk, giant dust motes and magnified cancer cells, these two enormous, bristling ruins of sculptures have found their own way to split the difference between painting and sculpture, found and made, extravagant chaos and deliberate complexity.

Wonderful tips; I set out bottles of water because nothing says yuck like a few dust motes floating in a glass.

Each neural dust mote possesses a piezoelectric crystal that can convert mechanical power from ultrasonic pulses broadcast from outside the body into electrical power.

In experiments with rats, the researchers found that neural dust motes implanted in nerve and muscle fibers in the leg could record and transmit electrical data.

Ultimately, the researchers want to shrink neural dust motes down to just 50 microns wide, or roughly half the average width of a human hair.

Over the past century, physicists have pushed back the frontier of the small — from dust motes to atoms to protons and neutrons to quarks.

«The vision is to implant these neural dust motes anywhere in the body, and have a patch over the implanted site send ultrasonic waves to wake up and receive necessary information from the motes for the desired therapy you want,» said Dongjin Seo, a graduate student in electrical engineering and computer sciences.

The two light oscillations were like two dust motes stuck in the grooves of a vinyl record spinning on a turntable, says Mushotzky.

When Nissan unveiled the redesigned 2016 Maxima at the 2015 New York Auto Show, it looked fresh and sexy perched up on its stage, flattered by professional lighting and attended to by a guy who was paid to wipe the smallest dust mote off the car every 10 seconds.

Luckily, these games pull it off without disturbing a single dust mote.

Peter Buggenhout: «Caterpillar Logic II» (through May 17) Conjuring space junk, giant dust motes and magnified cancer cells, these two enormous, bristling ruins of sculptures have found their own way to split the difference between painting and sculpture, found and made, extravagant chaos and deliberate complexity.

The scientists had previously explored using radio waves to power and communicate with neural dust motes.

Electronics in the neural dust motes can alter the pulses that get scattered outward, and so can wirelessly transmit data they gathered.

Experiments so far with neural dust motes have only involved the peripheral nervous system, which serves the limbs and organs, and not the central nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.

The non-existent god I don't believe in doesn't save the day, their is no «salvation for the christians», but maybe, in the late afternoon sunlight, while tracking a dust mote through the air, it might be that human invention of «god» was an attempt to take away «sin» so that we could find the beautiful, and ethical, and loving within ourselves and others.

I watch the dust motes dance, be tossed on eddies in the sun - streak in its minute advance across the meetinghouse floor then see the gnarled man rise and move into the sun to speak with a glint in his eye I've not seen before....

«In a universe whose size is beyond human imagining, where our world floats like a dust mote in the void of night, men have grown inconceivably lonely.

The wind toyed with Vettori on that jump the way it toys with a dust mote.

The vacuum is powered by a 12V DC outlet (i. e. any standard car cigarette lighter or equivalent plug), which gives its 106W motor enough strength to pick up dirt and small objects, let alone hairs, grains of sand, dust motes, and Skittles.

In July, Delft University physicist Sander Otte showed off a way to fit all that writing in a space smaller than a dust mote.

While the experiments so far have involved the peripheral nervous system and muscles, the neural dust motes could work equally well in the central nervous system and brain to control prosthetics, the researchers say.

Too much of that stuff and I was sure I would drift into the dust motes that clung to the carpet as they unsuccessfully avoided being made into illustrious scraps of crap.

The prologue of the film indicates the word «Sicario» is either Hebrew or Mexican for «hitman», but at its core, the film postulates the ever - shifting goalposts of federal law enforcement (both American and Mexican) while slowly revealing the broken conscience of both States — as if someone thought to remake Soderbergh's Traffic and shoot it over the template of Michael Mann's Heat; all awash in dust motes, artillery and desert sunsets.

The famous Twilight series has a glaring error in book one — we'll skip the discussions of the other five errors — but apparently Bella liked to watch the «dust moats» instead of «dust motes» as they floated around in the vacuum in front of her face.

See how the denizens of the original garden interact with each other and with their creator — dust motes, trees, ghosts, demons, gnomes, angels, roaches, and more!