Sentences with phrase «like wave structure»

JPL, NASA Larger image A ribbon - like wave structure with small convective features in Saturn's clouds that marks a westward jet is seen in this image, whose smallest resolved features are 40 miles (65 km) in diameter (more).

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When hit by a powerful shock wave, materials can change their shape — a property known as plasticity — yet keep their lattice - like atomic structure.

This year those breakthroughs include tools for reprogramming living cells and rendering lab animals transparent; ways of powering electronics with sound waves and saliva; smartphone screens that correct for the flaws in your vision; Lego - like atomic structures that could produce major advances in superconductivity research; and others.

The Duke cloak, constructed from a synthetic structure called a metamaterial, prevented those disturbances by bending light waves around the object, allowing them to continue flowing like water in a stream around a rock (concept shown at right).

More powerful computers will allow her to use more of the high - frequency content of earthquake waves, the part that is best at illuminating shallow structures like ULVZs.

«Unlike crystalline materials, where the vibrations become collective motions that act like sound waves, in amorphous materials, you get a different kinds of vibrations, the majority of which look random, like the underlying structure,» Henry explained.

Tiny structures — like loops or cylinders — within the rings divert the incoming waves around the object, preventing both reflection and absorption.

Now, a computer modeling approach, developed by University of Maryland seismologist Vedran Lekic and colleagues at the University of California Berkeley, has produced new seismic wave imagery which reveals that the rising plumes are, in fact, influenced by a pattern of finger - like structures carrying heat deep beneath Earth's oceanic plates.

The bubble is a nebula with a clutch of massive, hot stars at its center that is sending waves of matter smashing into the surrounding interstellar material, generating a glowing structure, which looks like a ring from our perspective.

The scientists observed 13 equally spaced lines measured by two European Space Agency Cluster satellites, and found highly structured wave spectrograms that look like a zebra pedestrian crossing.

True lava forms more enduring structures — like Surtsey in Iceland, which broke through surface waters in 1963 and remains exposed today — while islands of mostly pumice and ash are quickly torn down by the waves.

The team did this by reflecting the waves off an eight - stepped, spiral - staircase - like structure positioned a couple of metres from the antenna, the axis of which lined up with the beam.

Peristalsis is a particular, wave - like kind of muscle contraction because its purpose is to move solids or liquids along within the tube - like structures of the digestive and urinary tracts.

Lonergan uses a brilliant and unconventional structure to dole out these fragments of the past in a way that feels almost poetic, like the waves of the sea splashing up against the present day as Lee struggles to face all of these old memories and suffers the guilt and self - destructive anger that he's tried so hard to bury inside by running away all these years.

The initiative will continue the wave of innovations implemented by Superintendent Pedro Martinez since his appointment in June 2015, expanding on teaching models and support structures in experimental schools like the Advanced Learning Academy.

This examination uses sound waves that bounce off the structures of the heart and create images on a TV - like monitor.

With its striking wave - like design, Jumeirah Beach Hotel's five - star resort is one of Dubai's most instantly recognisable structures.

Nazi Zombies plays more like a structured story than previous versions, with themed encounters hitting alongside the standard wave - based fare.

There's also a co-op mode called Prospector; this mode feels more like a defense game than the multiplayer because you'll be alerted to the type of enemies incoming, their direction, and it's up to you to decide which structures would work best to handle the next wave.

Challenging the eye of the beholder, Reed's dynamic constellations never cease to open up new pictorial spaces: the energetic and singular gesture brushstroke of former works progressively condenses into structures of lines, waves or loops that often seem like edits from some other context, called into offer counterpoint in new visual arrangement.

There is an interesting process in the equatorial stratosphere wherein upward transport of momentum and energy by waves is absorbed depending on the wind structure in such a way as to cause the wind to oscillate from easterly to westerly on a timescale that has no direct dependence on the timescales of any forcing — a bit like an internal clock (QBO).

Weather prediction is like predicting the wave structure in a tub.

One Swedish study, based on previous waves of LNU data, also, however, just like the British study by Sigle - Rushton et al., shows that the association between childhood family structure and psychological well - being in adult age (19 — 34 years) has not changed between those born in the period 1934 — 1949 and those born 1966 — 1981 (Gähler and Garriga 2013).