Sentences with phrase «found tiny structures»

Matthew Shawkey at the University of Akron in Ohio and colleagues trained a scanning electron microscope on the fossil's feathers and found tiny structures called melanosomes, which contained dark pigment.

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The tiny Japanese island of Yonaguni, near Taiwan, has become famous for the huge submerged rock structures found near its shores — the ancient city of a lost civilisation, some claim.

These tiny bits are the same size and shape as the pigment - bearing structures (called melanosomes) found in the skin and scales of modern - day lizards and in the feathers of birds.

«Among such structures, one of the more interesting is similar to structures found in nature, and is referred to as a «moth - eye» pattern: tiny nanopillars which can «beat» the Fresnel equations at certain wavelengths and angles.»

Both had what looked like tiny barbed hairs stuck to their bodies — these hairlike structures are frequently found on beetle larvae that hung out in dinosaur nests.

These tiny structures helped birds to conquer the air, they're the ones that cover the bodies of most modern birds, and they too are found in the Cretaceous amber.

Feathers, like most opaque objects, typically get their color from pigments in surface coatings (much as melanin colors skin) or from tiny surface structures that reflect light, such as those found on iridescent butterflies and beetles.

They found that a recombinant version of the SM50 protein, rSpSM50, is a highly aggregation - prone protein that forms tiny jelly - like structures called hydrogels in solution.

Tiny defects in perovskite's crystalline structure can hamper the conversion of light into electricity in a solar cell, but «what we're finding is that there are some defects that can be healed under light,» says Stranks, who is a Marie Curie Fellow jointly at MIT and Cambridge University in the U.K..

They found that when the potassium channel is open, water molecules quickly bind to tiny cavities within the protein structure, where they block the channel in a state that prevents the passage of ions.

Monkeys typically find other monkeys impossible to ignore, and this experiment was no exception: the monkeys often failed at the reward task because they looked at the faces, especially if the faces depicted emotion.When humans are torn between paying attention to two different things, it triggers a «conflict» circuit in a brain region called the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) which is part of a larger brain structure controlling rational thought and emotions.Using a tiny sensor implanted in the dACCs of the monkeys, Platt's group was able to measure the electrical activity of single neurons.

The newly found structures, according to researchers, are tiny bumps with their shapes and internal layering strongly resembling both ancient and modern stromatolites.

In these highly structured moments where the consensus view of reality rubs up against the tiny planet of terror that Sam and Amelia call home, director Kent actually finds impromptu bursts of laughter — which only makes the movie feel that much more unhinged.

It provides large links, suitable for fingers to navigate on a hand - held device with a tiny screen, and structures the site so that the most important and useful information is easy for users to find.

And yet, there is solace to be found in the ceaseless fertility of the natural world, whether coded in the tiny DNA structures visible in a bubbling pool of signs.

As the artist recalls in her autobiography, Infinity Net, «Deep in the mountains of Nagano, working with letter - size sheets of white paper, I had found my own unique method of expression: ink paintings featuring accumulations of tiny dots and pen drawings of endless and unbroken chains of graded cellular forms or peculiar structures that resembled magnified sections of plant stalks.»

All of these structures have their place in the world of tiny construction, but I found a new one during the Montana straw bale workshop.

Martin has been quoted as saying, «We can help find insurance for all types of non-traditional homes including tiny houses on wheels, small houses, cabins, DIY structures, yurts, park models, and much more!»

The team instead found that the secret to the clingfish's adhesion is the hierarchically structured microvilli (tiny hairs similar to those found on gecko and spider feet) around the edges of the adhesive disc.