Sentences with phrase «of a grain of sand comes»

Just a month after a science fiction writer speculated on storage devices the size of a grain of sand comes news from the magazine Science of developments in magnetic anisotropy that could eventually be used to store information in individual atoms, paving the way to pack as much as 150 trillion bits of data per square inch, 1,000 times more than current data storage densities.

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It has been the irritating grain of sand in the oyster, around which the Catholic ages deposited the priceless pearl of supernatural, otherworldly piety; but for the modern church it has remained an impossible ideal of asceticism, an ideal whose very first precondition of fulfillment is lacking, namely, the eschatological outlook upon the world, the belief in the impending Judgment and the Age to Come.

A sandcastle worm uses fingerlike appendages coming out of its face to arrange grains of sand into expansive tubular reefs.

Scientists have come a step closer to gaining complete control over a mind, even if that mind belongs to a creature the size of a grain of sand.

The shards are both tiny and hard to come by — roughly 1 in every 10,000 grains of sand, he said.

The combination of fine - grained white sand, abundant and convenient amenities, and ample parking come together garnering fervent applause.

The moment that Xenogears» many disparate and confusing pieces come together to form a whole is special; not just because it's a brilliant plot twist, but because it makes your 30 hour «hero's journey» feel like a single grain of sand in the flow of universal time — before empowering you to flip the whole hourglass upside down.