Sentences with phrase «of microscopic life»

As a cheerleader for New York City's public transportation — even with its soundtrack of distressed birds and 15,000 types of microscopic life forms — I can't believe that another city could top us!

A colossal enlargement of a microscopic life - form, Cuoghi's sculpture was made by a 3D printer, then coated in so much stone dust that it is unrecognisable as anything at all, except perhaps a monument to futility.

Published in the ISME Journal on October 13, 2017, the researchers» findings are the first to reveal the unsuspected biodiversity of microscopic life in Paris city streets.

Scientists from the BOREA Biology of Aquatic Organisms and Ecosystems research unit (CNRS / MNHN / IRD / UPMC / University of Caen / Université des Antilles)-- together with a colleague from the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg, Germany — have shown that Parisian street gutters are oases of microscopic life, home to microalgae, fungi, sponges, and mollusks [1].

On earth such deposits typically contain remains of microscopic life.

In search of microscopic life, molecular ecologist Kay Bidle of Rutgers University looked for microbial DNA in the soil and ice core samples Marchant gathered for him during one of his expeditions.

Gut microbiota is the collective term for the communities of microscopic living organisms that inhabit this environment.

Not exact matches

No, you say that microscopic human life is worthless in sperm and sacred when combined with a different type of cell a couple inches away.

We marvel, in the light of recent developments of microscopic and chemical analysis, at the formidable edifice of atoms and varied mechanisms which is found to exist in living creatures, the more living they are.

Here and there it may be, we can catch a glimpse of the wonderful order in nature, the regularity of the stars, scattered over the wide spaces of the universe yet obedient to one law; the order to be found even in the microscopic world, as also within visible things concerning which science has given such amazing information in recent years; the order in the construction of a flower or of an animal, from the flea to the whale, a noteworthy obedience to law even in the life of man.

Imagine ourselves back some four billion years ago on this planet facing two scenarios: on one side, a vast turbulence, terrific volcanoes belching forth from the inexhaustible fires of the earth's core; on the other side the beginnings of living cells, microscopic, invisible along the water's edge of some shallow sea, quiet, vital.

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

Evolution occurs at the microscopic level by changes in genes as a result of the survival of the most adapted organisms for the environment in which they live.

Although we can articulate how ambiguity and how commitment structure each phase of the microscopic process by which an actual occasion realizes itself, we must also spell out just how ambiguity and commitment structure the macrocosmic process of commitment that structures ordinary experience, the moral life, social existence, responsibility for our past acts.

As the baby grows in utero, they are seeded with trillions of microscopic organisms that they receive from mom, dad, and anyone living in the house.

For those cases where you don't get paid or your salary is microscopic, you can easily make a second income in graduate school and enjoy the life of a student.

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).

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.

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* Correction, July 25: The article in the June issue of Discover Magazine originally stated «Microscopic yeasts live on the tongue, teeth, and skin and in the intestine.»

Now, researchers have exposed a more accessible analog for extraterrestrial life habitats: microscopic pockets of salt water in the Arctic Ocean's winter ice.

Those microscopic offspring — called veligers and as small as one - tenth of a millimeter in diameter — are covered with little hairs that help them catch currents and waves and «swim» to new locations during the first few weeks of their lives.

In a second piece, Wise explained how a marine ecologist is using robots (with casings made from surplus fire extinguishers) to mimic the motions of microscopic marine life, including crab larvae, as they move through ocean waters during their development into adult organisms.

Scientists have a skewed picture of Earth's biodiversity because they tend to ignore the microscopic life that is literally underfoot.

He spotted the glassy shards of ancient diatom shells — the remains of microscopic phytoplankton that lived here at warmer times in the past, when a shallow sea covered much of West Antarctica.

Corals, the animals that famously build reefs, get most of their energy and color from microscopic algae that live inside their tissue.

But Jacob Taylor, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland, says it provides experimental data for «a quiet revolution» in statistical physics, the study of how heat flows both in microscopic systems and on the scale of everyday life.

The males are microscopic (in the order of 100 - 500 microns) and live inside tubes built by the females, where they have only a reproductive function.

The consequences of this widespread pollution are still hazy, but environmental scientists say the microscopic plastic fibers have the potential to harm marine life.

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

«Understanding the physiology behind multimodal imaging is very challenging due to discrepancies between macroscopic and microscopic images and between images of extracted or transplanted tissues versus images of a live subject,» said Liu.

The microscopic organism — an archaea known as Metallosphaera sedula (seen as a cluster of tiny dots sitting in the middle of the meteoritic dust particle pictured above)-- was originally found in 1989 living in Italy's hot acidic sulfur springs around Vesuvius.

Microscopic roundworms (nematodes) live like maggots in bacon: They penetrate into the roots of beets, potatoes or soybeans and feed on plant cells, which are full of energy.

These microscopic, eight - legged mites live in the follicles of our eyelashes, eyebrows, and nose hairs, where they feed on dead skin cells and oil.

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.

«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.

«The discovery of microscopic shells of organisms that lived in warm shallow seas, and of spores and pollen from land plants, reveal that the geography and climate of Zealandia were dramatically different in the past.»

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.

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

Cohen, whose background includes developing operating systems support for computer games, has developed a program called LEVER - short for Lineage Editing and Validation program - that can identify, tag and track live cells, capturing patterns of motion and cell division, using sequences of microscopic time - lapse images.

In 1996, soil microbiologist Sara Wright of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Beltsville, Maryland, found that arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi — a type of microscopic fungus that lives symbiotically with plant roots — oozes a sticky protein called glomalin.

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

Not only do birds flock together but so too do countless examples throughout life, from the macroscopic to the microscopic, including schools of fish, colonies of bacteria, groups of migrating cells and even some proteins.

A hunger for iron rules the microscopic sea life of the Southern Ocean surrounding ice - covered Antarctica.

Life is the dominant source of the molecular oxygen on our planet, as the gas is produced by photosynthesis in plants and microscopic, single - cell organisms.

While algae and other microscopic plants, which form the base of the marine food chain, are vital to a healthy ecosystem, too much can cause murky water, reduce sunlight and oxygen levels, and ultimately cause harm to marine life.

They employed an advanced microscopic technique called in vivo two - photon imaging that allows the analysis of structures as small as a thousandth of a millimetre in the living brain.

That's exactly what a group of chemical engineers and biochemists attempted in a new study, embedding single - walled carbon nanotubes — microscopic tubes thinner than a human hair that can also absorb sunlight and convert it to electron flow — in living chloroplasts.

Although the Arctic and Antarctic regions are at opposite ends of Earth, they have a similar diversity of bacteria and other microscopic life.

But the microscopic bodies looked nothing like those from living penguins, whose tightly clustered melanosomes are different from those of all other birds, according to co-author Matthew Shawkey of the University of Akron in Ohio.