Sentences with phrase «like microscopic»

In perforations (tossed), for example, various sized circles appear like microscopic screens, captured midflight, each revealing of its own unique image.

Some pets — cats and dogs — are prone to developing crystals that can feel like microscopic shards of glass scraping the urethra and bladder.

Like microscopic bodyguards, the Micelle Liposomal delivery system grabs hold of the nutrients (in this case Turmeric), protecting them as they travel through your digestive system, into your bloodstream and into your cells where they are needed... unharmed.

In 1996, the scientists claimed that carbonate globules embedded in the meteorite looked a bit like microscopic life on Earth.

In these labs are scientists who will take care of storing samples in freezers and who will use them for any sort of analyses — like microscopic imaging or DNA extraction.

The magnetite particles are thought to act like microscopic compass needles, relaying information to the nervous system by straining or twisting receptors in cells as they attempt to align with the Earth's magnetic field.

LIFE GOES ON They may look like microscopic caterpillars, but don't let their quaint appearance fool you — water bears are no joke.

A hormone is like a microscopic key floating in the bloodstream: When it finds a matching lock, it binds to the receptor and triggers the cell to do something, such as grow or divide.

Renne and other investigators also charge that Becker's supposedly shocked minerals don't have the telltale patterns of impact - induced features: narrow, parallel bands crisscrossing at various angles, like a microscopic tartan weave.

His approach is simple, elegant, and potent, much like the microscopic lifeforms he so often examines.

The team reports that a wisp of plastic just 50 millionths of a millimeter long behaved very much like a microscopic Slinky.

The 500 - pound, 5 - foot - tall robot was much larger than the 12 - pound, 32 - inch - tall monkey whose neural signals were directing it, and this underscored a simple yet remarkable point: Implant technology could enable brainpower to control a huge object (like a robot crane) or a tiny one (like a microscopic surgical tool) just as easily as a life - size mechanical arm.

Professor Gabbott said: «There were two distinct shapes of melanosomes in Tullimonstrum's eyes: some look like microscopic «sausages» and others like microscopic «meatballs».

«You have billions and billions of different possibilities,» Trinks says, «because you have billions of these small channels,» each like a microscopic test tube containing a unique RNA experiment.

Not exact matches

While this works well on salt, it doesn't really help to weed out other contaminants that might be found in seawater, like dirt or microscopic organisms.

As you discover and practice new emotional intelligence skills, the billions of microscopic neurons lining the road between the rational and emotional centers of your brain branch off small «arms» (much like a tree) to reach out to the other cells.

Nanoengineers can even carve out molecular gears and levers that act as microscopic machines; in theory, some materials could be self - repairing, and others could carry out tasks inside our bodies, like scraping plaque from artery walls.

Furthermore, the patients may find that it's better for (half monkeys like you) to have a mega microscopic brain rather than to have a regular size one but only serves as an extra burden for a half human like them that has the intellectual capacity as to monkeys.

I like to think we can apply this same logic to many other things, including a belief that we evolved on this planet from microscopic organisms.

A microorganism is microscopic living matter, like a bacterium.

There, floating debris — from microscopic particles of plastic to large pieces like ropes and fishing nets — is carried by currents and accumulates.

One is string theory, which describes the fundamental constituents of matter not as point - like particles but as microscopic vibrating strings.

Microscopic pockets of water within the ice may have gathered simple molecules like the ones Miller synthesized, assembling them into longer and longer chains.

1 When moist, warm air rises to a cooler elevation, water condenses onto microscopic «seeds» like dust, ash, or bacteria.

«At the very microscopic level,» he says, «we have developed techniques like two - photon microscopy, which allows extremely detailed examinations of structures and processes within cells.»

They are microscopic, absorptive organisms that reproduce both sexually and asexually and are composed of mycelia, or a tube - like vegetative body (all of an organism's mycelia are called its thallus).

In this sense, Damasio's career mirrors the evolution of the brain sciences, which no longer focus exclusively on the microscopic tanglings of neurons and have made steady inroads into a number of fields like economics, sociology, literary theory, and political science.

The microscopic wasps looked like tiny specks of dust, but I was optimistic they could decimate the sharpshooter population.

The wires inside such devices are now so thin that electrons sometimes have trouble passing through them: A microscopic bump can seem like Mount Everest in a copper strand one - thousandth the thickness of a human hair.

Most strikingly, the cardiomyocytes also grew upwards to form dome - like cavities that resembled microscopic ventricles.

Like the dinosaurs themselves, giant marine reptiles, invertebrates and microscopic organisms became extinct after the catastrophic asteroid impact in an immense upheaval of the world's oceans, yet deep sea creatures managed to survive.

Microscopic analyses of chondrites, the oldest rocks in the solar system, are filling in details of what our neighborhood in space was like shortly before the planets formed

Leishmaniasis — a disease caused by microscopic parasites, like malaria, and transmitted by sand flies — results in painful skin sores and in its most vicious form causes at least 500,000 deaths worldwide every year.

Algae can also be used for biomanufacturing: Microscopic algae are turned into a living machine that can be genetically programmed to produce molecules like lipids and hydrocarbons ideally suited for biofuels.

Microscopic fossil burrows found in ancient rocks reveal that small worm - like animals existed more than half a billion years ago

C. elegans is a microscopic worm that like humans highly expresses a family of proteins in the nervous system called ADARs — adenosine deaminases that act on RNA — a family that includes ADR - 1.

To find out what eats what in this ecosystem, fisheries ecologists Jason Turner and Jay Rooker of Texas A&M University in Galveston first analyzed the composition of fatty acids in Sargassum, a green algae that grows on seaweed fronds, and phytoplankton — microscopic organisms that photosynthesize like plants.

For the ocean's tiny grazing animals, the microscopic algae called diatoms are a favorite food — and like most delicacies, they are turning out to be hazardous.

Once after midnight, Drescher noticed something spectacular: Two colonies were hovering near the bottom of the tank, spinning like mad in a microscopic minuet (see video below).

They may sound like weapons for Ant - Man's next nemesis, but the microscopic lasers could greatly improve biologists» ability to track the movement of individual cells.

Anticipating his discovery, I burst in before he could continue: «What do the microscopic vessels look like?»

This dead organic material provides the perfect habitat for a plethora of organisms, including worms, snails, spiders, and microscopic decomposers like fungi and bacteria.

Microscopic roundworms (nematodes) live like maggots in bacon: They penetrate into the roots of beets, potatoes or soybeans and feed on plant cells, which are full of energy.

Like a team of laboratory gearheads, Arizona State University (A.S.U.) researchers have found a way to soup up microscopic «nanomachines» that may someday be used to deliver lifesaving medications or test the quality of drinking water in remote regions of the world.

Beijing's air is full of pollutants like sulfur dioxide (SO2), ozone (O3), carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and notably, particulate matter (microscopic particles like those in engine exhaust).

The theory behind firearm identification is that microscopic striations and impressions left on bullets and cartridge cases are unique, reproducible, and therefore, like «ballistic fingerprints» that can be used to identify a gun.

Precision engineering on microscopic scales even lets us devise metamaterials that behave in ways that nature can't match — like those that manipulate light to make much - celebrated «invisibility cloaks».

Their paper, published online today in the Journal of Archaeological Science, establishes that when the body is deprived of vitamin D, permanent microscopic abnormalities form in the layers of dentin, the tooth structure under the enamel, creating an ongoing record that can later be read like the rings of a tree.

Much like humans, whose guts and skin are teeming with microbes, the soil below plants and trees contains a unique cornucopia of microscopic creatures that help the tree take in nutrients and water.

Looking something like Egyptian pyramids surrounded by an undulating sea of sand, this microscopic image shows the surface of a silicon solar cell.