Sentences with phrase «material like bone»

This slowed the decaying process down so that some of the remains (in most cases, only hard material like bone or shell) were preserved for thousands of years.

«We look at natural materials like bone, elastin proteins in the skin, spider silk and cocoons,» says Buehler, a computational chemist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge.

Carbon - 14 dating requires organic materials like bone or wood.

Not exact matches

Cities might become biological entities, walls hung with curtains of algae that glow at night and sequester carbon, and floors made from tweaked cellular material that strengthens like bones as we walk on it.

The bone, air and tissues in their skulls behave like a metamaterial, a material designed to defy the normal laws of physics.

And looking at systems like that, it's just inspiring to us and we say, well, life had a chance to work with certain materials — shells and bones and some magnetic materials — but really hasn't worked with a lot of materials that we would like to use ourselves that we consider more technologically important materials So, in my lab at M.I.T. we give organisms [the] opportunity to work with those materials and try to use them to build devices in a more environmentally friendly way.

But, you know, it seems like a big job but it's really not, because through just [the] selection processes, you and I learned how to make bones using proteins and so we are using the exact same materials — amino acids and proteins — but we are just giving them different starting materials — that of building bones.

During operations, surgeons mix the powder with a saline solution to form a putty - like material that they smear into the gap between the fractured bones.

It's hard to get an X-ray image of low - density material like tissue between bones because X-rays just pass right through like sunlight through a window.

The nanofibers» structural resemblance to proteins like collagen and elastin found in connective tissue make silk an ideal scaffolding material for vascular grafts and bone / cartilage engineering.

The results closely mimic the intricate architecture of natural materials like wood and bone.

This is probably because the preservation of the organic materials - bone and charcoal - that are normally radiocarbon dated is really poor in warm climates like southern Spain.»

«In other words, Neanderthals looked at bone as just another raw material to flake into stone tool types like scrapers, notches and hand axes.»

Bone marrow is the soft, sponge - like material found inside bones.

Dentin is the bone - like material that makes up most of the tooth.

Now, take heart: it's not as though you're some weak, defenseless, blob of goo and bones covered by a tiny, thin layer of cellophane - like material.

I would try PHD, including intermittent fasting, but make a point of eating plentiful food during the daily feeding window, and emphasizing highly nourishing foods like egg yolks, liver, seafood, bone and joint material in soups and stews, green leafy vegetables, carotenoid - rich plants like carrots and sweet potatoes, etc etc..

These are some of the most sought - after crafting materials in the game, but you don't get them from fighting large monsters, or even from scavenging bone piles like Ancient Bones, Boulder Bones and Coral Bones.

He knows the material «like a bone in the throat.»

But as you walk around the halls of Inglewood Elementary — a school where technology is bare - bones (teachers don't even have Smartboards) and classroom materials are all obviously painstakingly hand - crafted by the teachers themselves (doubtlessly with their own money)-- it's really hard to see this small, beleaguered building as «the system,» when it feels a whole lot more like it is a victim of the system.

Rectal tears, as well as anal tears, can occur when a dog swallows a foreign object that is sharp, like a bone, needle or other rough material.

, I leave him with a variety of toys to play with & chew on made of various materials, (cloth, rope, nylabones, rubber bones & rings, kongs etc etc etc.) he is taken out 3 times a day, he has approx. 30 mins am, 30 mins at lunch time & about 45 mins pm so he gets a decent amount of exercise, he also gets a cows ear when I leave for work in the morning & a tripe stick when my parents leave at lunchtime & yet he still chews like anything, I can't leave him in a crate as he literally screams all the time he's in it, I'm not sure if this is due to something from his past life as all I know is that he came from the streets of Romania where dogs are treated like dirt.

A free content update also going live on October 4 will add new mobs like polar bears, new items like harvestable beetroots, special terrain features like igloos, fossils, and new village materials, new blocks like grass paths, magma, frosted ice, and bone blocks, and finally, new decorative banners.»

The fact that you are in control and there are multiple areas to farm makes the Bolder Bone a slightly easier material to gather in comparison to other exotics like the Sinister Cloth.

Incorporating materials like Styrofoam, animal bones and clay, Bhabha creates figures that feel unstable and ephemeral.

Materials and objects like shoes, bones, oxygen cylinders, silicone, amongst others, constitute a formal point of departure for the show, in an artistic practice marked by the usage of things from the artist's immediate surroundings.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

The river side is crowded with memories, Lantz is mingling with the spirits of the past as she resorts to this generous landscape to harvest raw materials for her work such as pieces of wood, metal, animal bones, clay pipes, rocks and the like.

These incorporated materials such as nails, wood, newspaper cuttings and other bits and pieces to alter the painting surface, a technique he developed from a 1952 tour of Europe and North Africa with the artist Cy Twombly during which he started collecting junk like bits of rope, stones, sticks, bones which he exhibited in Rome and Florence under the title «scatole contemplative,» or thought boxes.

Whether investigating the visual intrigue of seemingly inconsequential, discarded debris like bones, plumbing fittings and cigarette butts, animal skulls from the collection of the Narodni National Museum in Prague, or vessels from his personal collection, these images demonstrate Penn's extraordinary ability to create strikingly eloquent compositions from the most unsuspecting materials.