Sentences with phrase «of a human hair into»

The group is studying how neurons respond to light by implanting fiber - optic threads the width of a human hair into the brains of lab mice.

Not exact matches

That was in the early»70s, when with long hair, bobbles, bangles and beads and a gleam of communitarian utopianism in my eyes, I finally found my way into the fourth century treatise by Nemesius, peri phuseos anthropon («On the Nature of the Human»), where it at length dawned on me that ancient wisdom could be the basis for a deeper critique of modern narcissistic individualism than I had yet seen.

site the washing of the feet and the drying with the hair... that my friends is a marriage ceremony in Judaic law and custom of that period and yes they did have a daughter named Sarah) but... not it seems to be a shock to many who really did not dig into their own religious dogma... blind faith is great if you can achieve it... normally people today need to inspect... inspect and you find the truths... then you will have faith based on the truth, not twists and turns and the human politics of history that changed historical truth.

With his gray hair, dark suit, and muted perma - smirk, he blended into the human backdrop that had been arranged behind the candidate — nodding thoughtfully, clapping on cue, and dutifully shuffling out of the way when Trump turned around to high - five a black preacher.

Finally, they incorporated the solution into a shampoo and applied it to tresses of freshly trimmed human hair, which they combed in both wet and dry conditions.

The team's novel fabrication technique involves patterning a solar absorber with tiny holes with diameters less than 400 nanometers (that's roughly 200 times smaller than the width of a human hair), cut into the absorber at regular intervals.

He covers the evolution of unique human traits — red hair, lactose tolerance — and delves into the genetics of historical celebrities — Richard III and Jack the Ripper, to name two.

The two devices were roughly similar in design — both sucked hair into a vacuum tube, snipped it with internal blades at a precise and controllable length, then sucked away the clippings — but they were fully indistinguishable in purpose: to put into the hands of the common man a power hitherto known only to trained professionals, that of cutting human hair.

The sulfuric acid condensed into minute droplets — each two hundred times finer than the width of a human hair — that could easily remain suspended in the air as an aerosol cloud.

«We've been trying to track down the genetic and molecular basis of naturally occurring traits — such as hair and skin pigmentation — in fish and humans to get insight into the general principles by which traits evolve,» said David Kingsley, PhD, professor of developmental biology.

In addition, the material is highly flexible and could be woven into fabrics, enabling wearable forms; individual niobium nanowires are just 140 nanometers in diameter — 140 billionths of a meter across, or about one - thousandth the width of a human hair.

Ray Baughman, Ph.D., took a bundle of nylon fibers about the width of ten strands of human hair and wound them into a long, tight coil, just like an old - fashioned telephone cord but on a much smaller scale.

Once inside the lungs, the microscopic fungal spore transforms into a spherule (pictured), a podlike structure 10 to 20 times the size of the original spore (30 or 40 microns, or about half the width of a human hair).

Dr. Charlier argues that human remains in museums and scientific institutions can be divided into four categories, «ethnographical elements» such as hair samples with no certain identification; anatomical remains such as whole skeletons or skulls; archaeological remains; and more modern collections of skulls, used in now discredited studies in the early 20th century.

A one - ounce piece can be beaten into a translucent sheet five - millionths of an inch thick or drawn out into 50 miles of wire five micrometers thick — one - tenth the diameter of a human hair.

The team loads an image 30 microns wide — about one - third the width of a human hair — into the fiber.

To make such a detailed model, researchers took specks of brain tissue and cut them into slices thousands of times thinner than a human hair.

Focusing the machine's full output into a spot of only 100 nanometers in size, the team generated an X-ray beam with intensity equivalent to all of the sun's radiation that is striking Earth's surface but concentrated in an area with the diameter of a human hair.

Just 1 / 100th the size of a human hair, microbubbles sneak into very small canals within the complex clot and their oscillation from ultrasound causes a breakup of the clot from the inside as well.

The epithelial stem cells, when implanted into immunocompromised mice, regenerated the different cell types of human skin and hair follicles, and even produced structurally recognizable hair shaft, raising the possibility that they may eventually enable hair regeneration in people.

Human - associated bacteria disperse into and throughout the built environment by three primary mechanisms: (1) direct human contact with indoor surfaces; (2) bioaerosol particle emission from our breath, clothes, skin and hair; and (3) resuspension of indoor dust containing previously shed human skin cells, hair and other bacteria - laden partiHuman - associated bacteria disperse into and throughout the built environment by three primary mechanisms: (1) direct human contact with indoor surfaces; (2) bioaerosol particle emission from our breath, clothes, skin and hair; and (3) resuspension of indoor dust containing previously shed human skin cells, hair and other bacteria - laden partihuman contact with indoor surfaces; (2) bioaerosol particle emission from our breath, clothes, skin and hair; and (3) resuspension of indoor dust containing previously shed human skin cells, hair and other bacteria - laden partihuman skin cells, hair and other bacteria - laden particles.

The extremely thin diameter of 1.5 nanometers (over 60,000 times thinner than a human hair) means that thousands of the wires can easily be packed into a very small space.

Materials scientist Dongsheng Li will use sophisticated microscopes to take a close look at how nanocrystals less than one - thousandth the width of a human hair assemble into branched structures while the process is taking place.

To put this kind of sensitivity into yet more perspective, LIGO technology is theoretically capable of measuring the distance from the sun to the nearest star — Proxima Centauri, which lies about 4.25 light - years away — «to a level of about the width of a human hair,» David Reitze of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), executive director of the LIGO Laboratory, said during a news conference today.

At each visit, they inserted a fine wire electrode, no thicker than a human hair, into two muscles around one of each of the volunteers» knees.

Fine particles measure 2.5 microns or less in size (approximately 1 / 30th the diameter of a human hair) and can penetrate deep into the body's respiratory system.

These specks of dust are about 30 times smaller than the thickness of a human hair, so they can be inhaled deep into the lungs.

An oversized, bald cranium, an unerring ability to create chaos from brilliant ideas and good intentions, plus always being picked last for sports in school, spurs Megamind into a life of villainy with Metro Man, human - like with super powers and great hair, as his sworn nemesis.

It seems a ton of work goes into the hair, which is incredibly photorealistic, but the rest of the human features are pretty lame.

Bette Midler is mostly perfect as Kitty Galore, a former MEOWS operative turned rogue agent who, after falling into a vat of hair removal cream, becomes a laughing stock among her colleagues and an undesirable companion to her humans who promptly abandon her.

Pandemics — global outbreaks of disease across countries and continents — have been a feature of human history for centuries: as inexplicable and frightening as the contagion in Emily Shultz's novel The Blondes, where women with blonde hair are turned into crazed maniacs.

Farrow's second Émile Cinq - Mars novel opens with a stunning sequence in which the Montreal police detective finds a body submerged in water beneath a frozen lake, a favorite haunt of ice fisherman: «The circular ice hole was partially filled with water, and a few inches below the surface floated a human head, the long hair beaded with ice, the face plunged down into the frigid lake.»

From my quick research on nanoparticles, it seems to me that the problem is that because they are so tiny (line up 10,000 of them to get the width of a hair), they easily pass through the human skin barrier, get into the circulatory system, and cause havoc in unsuspecting victims.

Aquanta delves into a vast and diverse range of subjects including pet and human wellness, ways to de-stress, skin and hair care, cutting - edge product development, and more.

As dogs move into the geriatric phase of their lives, they experience gradual changes that are remarkably like those of ageing humans: hair can turn grey, their bodies are not as supple and reflexes not as sharp as they once were.

This is perhaps why Gu's film, which captures workers kneading, rolling and cooking a paste from countless strands of anonymous human hair and forming it into sticks of ink is nothing short of mesmerizing.

These interests have remained central to his practice and extend into the large group of modestly scaled wall works made between 2002 and 2011, which contain not only the metal tool parts and carved wood found in much of his oeuvre but also symbolically loaded materials such as human hair and the asafetida bags traditionally worn on the body to ward off disease.

In wall reliefs, the artist taps into an anthropomorphic realm between the alien and familiar with unraveled and tufted shoelaces, indicative of the use of human hair in previous work.

Converting Nike Air Jordan trainers into anthropological masks, using the traditional colors of black, white, red, integrated with human hair, Jungen made poignant references to contemporary assimilations and the commercial devaluing of revered customs and symbols.

Schwerd wove human hair extensions that she found in her neighborhood after the hurricane into sculptural renderings of vacant houses in the Ninth Ward neighborhood.

Adorned with fringes of hair as a way of invoking the human body and its physical presence, Geyer's constructions give three - dimensional contemporary form to the illustration on the cover of The Ladder's initial 1956 issue, which depicts two figures gazing up at a runged ladder reaching into the clouds.

I read today that human hair stuffed into a sock from panty hose will make a hi - performance piece of oil absorbing material.

Measuring the distance apart and speed of 2 satellites in space orbiting the earth to the width of a human hair with no margin for error [damn those drift recalculations], and taking into account unknown factors with respect to the true values for water depth, water weight at different salt concentrations, ice depth magma flows, volcanic activity etc [ie making a lot of guesses], plus taking human motivation on board [like CO2 increase must melt ice surely] can give you an accurate measurement of the volume ice in Antarctica.

Gizmag reports on how these amazing photovoltaic fibers were made, «The origin of the solar - power fiber lies in earlier research by the team, on merging optical fibers with microchips by using high - pressure chemistry to deposit semi-conductors into tiny holes in optical fibers that are finer than a human hair.

They've introduced new four new microfiber towels designed to stem the flood of paper towels into the waste stream; each microfiber is finer than a human hair and is sliced 16 times, resulting in millions of microscopic hooks in each cloth to capture dirt, dust and even six times their weight in water.

I picture the following cartoon: a goofy looking human in a bath towel running a dozen hair dryers in each hand, and then zooming out to bring all of their neighbors into view doing exactly the same thing, then panning over to show a busy city sidewalk packed with people rushing to work with a briefcase and a dozen running hair dryers in each hand (either with arms at their sides, or perhaps even up above their heads continuing to dry their hair as they walk, briefcases dangling in the air), and then zooming out again to show the same scene carried out on every city sidewalk.