Sentences with phrase «microscopic scales»

A butterfly's iridescent coloring is a result of the intricate patterning of thousands of microscopic scales, attached to thin wing membranes.

Experiments confirm that entangled states exist at microscopic scales — at the size of atoms.

Where the forces differ is that electromagnetism behaves in essentially the same simple way on all scales, varying only in its general strength, whereas gravity becomes increasingly rococo as you zoom into microscopic scales — signaling that the theory eventually gives way to a deeper one such as string theory or loop quantum gravity.

Objects with icosahedral symmetry occur in nature only at microscopic scales, including quasicrystals, many viruses and some beautiful protozoa in the radiolarian family

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».

Attendees at the astrobiology meeting in Arizona showcased an assortment of high - tech devices for next - generation exploration, ranging from microfluidic «life analyzers» and integrated nucleic acid extractors for studying «Martian metagenomics» to exquisitely sensitive, miniaturized organic chemistry labs for spotting tantalizing carbon compounds and minerals at microscopic scales.

Their wings are composed of microscopic scales that protect the insect from moisture, and also produce elegant color patterns.

The attraction and repulsion effects make up what is known as the «optical force,» a newly observed phenomenon that works on microscopic scales.

7 On the microscopic scale, there seem to be Whiteheadian equivalents to horizonal having - been and horizonal advent / future.

Second, developments in physics have changed the conception of reality on a microscopic scale.

The Copenhagen interpretation allows for non-deterministic processes on a microscopic scale — a genuine kind of randomness.

Natural childbirth and homebirth are safer on the microscopic scale!

At the microscopic scale, the hairy, moist surface of your armpits is as different from the smooth, dry skin of your forearms as a rainforest is to a desert.

«On a microscopic scale various layers of cement appear, and each one provides information on the moment when they precipitated, the conditions that existed, etc.» Secondly, they analysed the materials trapped in these cements where «we found foundry slag from the industrial revolution, even waste bearing the seals of European companies that used to dump their slag when they arrived with their vessels.

Until recently, every invisibility cloak developed has operated at the microscopic scale, hiding objects that were already too small to see with the naked eye.

Instead, he suggests that individual clusters could be used to guide self - assembling materials on a microscopic scale.

Despite the fact that a great many storage devices — among them computer hard drives and cassette tapes — rely on magnetic materials, scientists don't really know how they operate on a microscopic scale.

X-ray imaging will allow them to visibly see materials and features at the macroscopic level as they evolve during deformations, while simultaneous X-ray diffraction measurements will permit them to examine the deformations at the microscopic scale.

It's much easier to move things in gross distance than to work on a microscopic scale.

Their research, which also shows how chemical reactions can be studied on a microscopic scale using tools of physics, is reported in the journal Science.

«I think that the precise requirements of a really robust claim of life at the microscopic scale require us to push on further,» she notes.

I think at the macroscopic scale any life we discover will have evolved by Darwinian evolution; at the microscopic scale it will be based on carbon chemistry.

Michael Barnhardt, a senior research scientist at NASA ARC and principal investigator of the Entry Systems Modeling Project, said the X-ray work opens a new window into the structure and strength properties of materials at the microscopic scale, and expands the tools and processes NASA uses to «test drive» spacecraft materials before launch.

McKay suggested that the Viking Mars lander may have inadvertently oxidized any evidence of life it its samples of Martian soil, proposed an expedition to gather samples of water from the Saturn moon Enceladus, and offered a child - friendly analogy for how alien life might differ from life on Earth: «I could build a table out of Lincoln logs and you could build a table out of Legos: At the macroscopic scale they'd be the same — they'd both be tables; at the microscopic scale they'd be the same — they'd both be built from carbon atoms.

Such behavior also takes place on a microscopic scale, such as when bacteria roam the folds of the gut.

The system thus takes advantage of physical measurements at the microscopic scale, while enabling computationally efficient evaluation of macroscopic designs.

Liquid - metal sources, their conical shape generated by electrostatic fields, produce charged atoms that can cut away and rebuild circuits on a microscopic scale

That way it is possible to trace the formation of the crystal on the microscopic scale.

«It combines knowledge from the field of microfluidics, which uses fluids at a microscopic scale to miniaturize biological experiments, with the cellular, biological and molecular studies we conduct in laboratories.»

«What we see as electrons, protons or quantum mechanical waves are manifestations of the fundamental super microscopic scale of these field patterns, Milton says.

By manipulating the process to precisely manage the solidification on a microscopic scale, the researchers demonstrated 3 - dimensional control of the microstructure, or crystallographic texture, of a nickel - based part during formation.

The detailed mechanisms of how the oceans contribute to this global carbon cycle at the microscopic scale, and which microbes have a leadership role in the breakdown process, are complex and convoluted problems to solve.

To explain heat transfer at the microscopic scale, however, Chiloyan and Chen had to dig up the lesser - known form known as microscopic Maxwell's equations.

To fix genes on a microscopic scale, one cell at a time, the faulty code has to be located and physically cut — and that's what CRISPR - Cas9 does.

This ability to control waves derives from how the material is structured, often on a microscopic scale.

If a cause isn't found, a renal biopsy can be taken for histopathology so that types of cells and structure of the kidney can be analysed on a microscopic scale which may aid in the diagnosis; however, the renal biopsy isn't always reliable.

The visit to Pirelli HangarBicocca winds its way through twelve works, in the form of massive installations or sculptures on a microscopic scale, which involve every aspect of the visitor's perceptions.

Microscopic scale.

It's like taking a pencil line and putting it under a microscope and making a big deal out of the discontinuities seen at the microscopic scale.

It wasn't even unclear in the context of the discussion; later I talked explicitly about detailed balance at the microscopic scale.

This statement proves illusory because those models are indeed decoupled from the fundamental physical principles defined at the microscopic scale by a hiatus, the meteorological processes at the small and medium scales [or synoptic processes] which are not described in their physical reality.

Not exact matches

Looking back on it, I can definitely see the similarities in terms of what it takes to envision, manage, and build complex structures, whether that's accomplished on the enormous scale of a city or on the microscopic level of a semiconductor chip with billions of transistors.

Whiteheadians seem able to imagine such ecstatically spanned unities - across - time on the so - called «microscopic» scale of the «specious present,» but give up on the idea as the scope of the temporal disclosure space is widened to the scale of human lifetime and of generations.7 But worse than this from the point of view of Heidegger's temporal problematic, by submitting the ecstatic unities of their «specious presents» to the before / after ordering and metric properties of linear time, at least in terms of their mutually external relations and arrangements, they give back ontologically every advantage they gained from the use of an cc - static - temporal disclosure horizon in the first place, even though it was only the single horizon of presence.

An actual supernatural thing would, for us to interact with it in any way, be required to impinge upon this space - time continuum, and we see that, regardless of scale, i.e. microscopic or macroscopic, there is absolutely zero evidence that there is anything interacting with us or our universe in any way.

From its outset, quantum mechanics has been a source of intrigue; the picture it presents of the microscopic world being so different to that of everyday experience gained from normal - sized entities, between the atomic scale and the vast spaces of the cosmos.

Microscopic, short - lived structures of this sort are possible, as are large ones with long characteristic time - scales.

We live in a universe where the so - called «butterfly effect» plays a strong role, so that things at a quantum microscopic level affect things at a large scale, and a universe where there is true randomness at the quantum level, which gives theoretically uncaused events which can't be empirically distinguished from events with unseen causes.

ANCIENT COLOR Scientists found microscopic texturing on the scales of moths from the Jurassic Period that resembles what's seen today in Micropterix aruncella (shown).

The microscopic ridged scales date from roughly 200 million years ago, around the time of one of Earth's less famous mass...

Ahlberg's team instead looked at a single specimen of Psarolepis, slicing through the jawbone, skull bones, and scales to get a microscopic peek at their internal structure and so identify what they were made of.