Sentences with phrase «microscopic form»

The microscopic form of the second law says that basically, systems evolve in time from less probable states to more probable states.

We hear a lot about plastics breaking down at sea, but scientists are discovering that a shocking quantity of plastic enters the ocean already in microscopic form.

But the diptych is dominated by a large, organic, sprawling cell shape on the left, its inflated, microscopic form seemingly about to engulf the aforementioned table and its occupants, in a classic surrealist reversal of real - world perspectives.

Innerspace takes its premise from Fantastic Voyage, where a cocksure Navy test pilot, Tuck Pendleton (Quaid, Dreamscape), is set to become the first man to be shrunk down to microscopic form to traverse in a submersible through the body of a rabbit.

The search for tiny, microscopic forms of life, including fossilized microbes, requires specialized instruments and cooperation between field researchers and instrument builders.

Sedimentary rocks 3.5 billion years old (and perhaps those 3.8 billion years old) contain what appear to be fossil stromatolites, which are natural colonies formed by photosynthetic bacteria; within the stromalites one can see microscopic forms reminiscent of bacteria.

Microscopic forms include protists and bacteria.

Sponges range in size from very small microscopic forms that bore into shells and corals to large showy animals that a SCUBA diver could sit in.

The pieces include interpretations of microscopic forms, expressive manipulations of unusual angles of vision, playful placements of figures whose points of view contrast with that of the artist and more abstract presentations of a visual experience.

Kay Hartung's «Bio Fusion 12» is a 16 x 16 x 1.5 inch abstract representation of microscopic forms painted in encaustic and pastel with embedded threads.

Painted flat on a tabletop, these vibrantly coloured canvases bubble with free association images — eyes, suns, profiles, organic and microscopic forms — and of course an abundance of dots and nets.

His garden also takes on aquatic and microscopic forms in «Présages» where the arrangement of elementary particles is made visible to the spectator's naked eye.

Scientists think that increased acidity could affect the entire marine food chain, from microscopic forms of phytoplankton to fish and whales.

Not exact matches

Metal oxides such as zinc oxide and titanium dioxide are increasingly being used in sunscreens and cosmetics in the form of nanoparticles — microscopic particles of matter measured on the nanoscale.

How else can microscopic cells evolve and differentiate into a fully formed human?

By recreating the physical forces that developing cells experience, stem cells have been coaxed into forming microscopic beating hearts

Most free - living nematodes are microscopic, though a few parasitic forms can grow to several meters in length (typically as parasites of very large animals such as whales).

Researchers at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering have demonstrated that deep learning, a powerful form of artificial intelligence, can discern and enhance microscopic details in photos taken by smartphones.

A single cubic yard of sea ice contains a million or more liquid compartments, microscopic test tubes that could have created unique mixtures of RNA that eventually formed the first life.

The scientists, an international team from the University of Bath, France, Germany, Holland, and the USA, deliberately introduced defects in titanium dioxide to form high concentrations of microscopic holes, and showed these can be reversibly occupied by magnesium and aluminium; which carry more than one electron per ion.

DTI is an advanced form of MRI that allows researchers to assess microscopic changes in the brain's white matter.

But microscopic phytoplankton, which rely on the sun for their nutrients and form the base of Arctic food webs, have managed to thrive under ice sheets that are thinning as the poles become warmer.

Radio signals won't travel through a liquid, and chemical forms of communication work only across large or microscopic distances.

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

But the fluid is prone to forming dendrites — microscopic lithium fibers that can cause batteries to short - circuit and heat up rapidly.

For early detection, Reclamation searches samples from reservoirs, lakes, canals and other water bodies for the microscopic larval form of quagga and zebra mussels.

The location, size, form and structure of each removed polyp was documented and sent for microscopic examination.

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.

The team used stable isotope labels to trace plant litter - derived carbon and nitrogen as the litter decomposed and formed soil, specifically the fraction of soil called organic matter, which comes from plant inputs and microscopic animals.

Rather, they analyzed microscopic silicon carbide, SiC, dust grains that formed in supernovae more than 4.6 billion years ago and were trapped in meteorites as our Solar System formed from the ashes of the galaxy's previous generations of stars.

A future form of computing could see information stored on clusters of microscopic particles suspended in liquid

The Osaka team previously combined two different types of transition - metal disilicides to form a microscopic structure with alternating layers of different alloy crystal.

Electron - microscopic analysis revealed that the newly formed bone component in the defected area had penetrated into the gel surface, and fused to it seamlessly.

The specific forms of each coccolith most likely evolved under pressure from zooplankton, the microscopic animal group a notch up the food chain that developed mandibles, claws, and other accoutrements for getting past the hard calcite coccoliths.

Nesbitt added that it's even possible that life itself may have originated inside microscopic liquid particles formed early in Earth's history.

But these laws still include tiny juvenile forms: «Lobsters can have around 7000 microscopic babies at one time,» he says, and recording each organism would be a time - consuming process.

Some of the lubricant forms a thin, liquid layer and smooths out any microscopic roughness on the material's surface; the rest creates a reservoir within the material's pores.

For example, he is using data from AFLOWlib to study why some alloys can form metallic glass — a peculiar form of metal with a disordered microscopic structure that gives it special electric and magnetic properties.

A microscopic beast lying low in your brain may be exercising a subtle form of thought control, turning you into somebody slightly different.

A major key to what turns ordinary clouds into rainmakers in the first place is their ability to form ice crystals around the microscopic particles that invade and «seed» them, Prather said.

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.

We higher forms of life have always distinguished ourselves from our single - celled microscopic friends.

Stem cells have been coaxed to form microscopic beating hearts.

THEY were right under our noses — thousands of novel microscopic life forms, now unmasked by genetic analysis.

A postage - stamp - sized «camera on a chip» and microscopic microphones may form the basis of a videophone that could be worn on wrist.

Clay minerals can not form unless there is water available — it is an essential ingredient in their microscopic crystalline structure.

The process is then followed by high temperature activation annealing (about 600 to 900 degrees Celsius) to form a honeycomb lattice of carbon atoms, a typical microscopic structure of graphene.

These defects «pin» in place, or trap, the microscopic magnetic vortices that form when the superconductor is placed in a strong magnetic field, such as those generated by magnets in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines.

And when these diamonds were formed, microscopic minerals were trapped inside.