Sentences with phrase «of microscopic worlds»

Painted nail heads and tiny toy homes are typical keys that guide viewers from a bird's eye view of microscopic worlds to intricate webs of connections between people, communities, history and possible futures encased within shiny coatings.

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.

This special issue addresses modern developments in controlling and manipulating light: how light - based technologies are shrinking and becoming faster (Koenderink et al., p. 516); how recent theoretical developments in the manipulation of light are being implemented to provide materials with properties not available in nature (Pendry et al., p. 521); how the quantum properties of light are being exploited in new technologies (Walmsley, p. 525); and how new light sources are coming online that can probe the structure of matter on spatial and time scales that provide an exquisitely detailed picture of our microscopic world (Miao et al., p. 530).

Almost 90 years on, and quantum theory is still our very best description of the microscopic world of atoms and their constituents.

Doug Natelson, 37, is the Benjamin Franklin of the microscopic world: He studies electronic properties at the atomic scale, where the overlap of classical and quantum physics gains importance.

A new version of quantum theory sweeps away the bizarre paradoxes of the microscopic world.

In such a makeshift cosmos, the fine details of the microscopic world and the farthest stars might only be filled in by the programmers on the rare occasions that people study them with scientific equipment.

Importantly, the discovery of quantized quantities has often been associated with a revolution in our understanding and appreciation of Nature's law, a striking example being the quantization of light in terms of photons, which led to our contemporary (quantum - mechanical) description of the microscopic world.

When grains are properly prepared through soaking, sprouting or sour leavening, the friendly bacteria of the microscopic world do some of our digesting for us in a container, just as these same lactobacilli do their work in the first and second stomachs of the herbivores.

Not exact matches

A microscopic bundle of cells should NEVER have more rights than a thinking, feeling person who is already established in this world.

In the constellation of preparation, person, act, apprehension, and response in community — which was seen in the coming of Christ and what that coming brought about — we have a microscopic picture of what macroscopically is the truth about the world, both in the realm of history and in the realm of nature.

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.

The Whiteheadian notion of society, on the other hand, can be employed without ambiguity in both the microscopic and the macroscopic worlds.

Most interpreters agree that Whitehead, in his final synthesis at least, held that «the final real things of which the world is made up» (PR 18 / 27) are both microscopic and noncomposite.

Each «microscopic process» of the becoming of an individual entity or event is a particular internalization of the entire «macroscopic process,» which is the whole actual world as it gives birth to that event.

Seriously, when you start getting down to a microscopic level and looking at atoms and molecules and the structures of cells, the world changes.

The shrimp represent centimeter - sized swimmers, including krill and shrimplike copepods, found throughout the world's oceans that may together be capable of mixing ocean layers — and delivering nutrient - rich deep waters to phytoplankton, or microscopic marine plants, near the surface, the researchers suggest.

If locality applies to the microscopic world, then seeing one coin land heads offers no insight into the landing face of the other coin.

Quantum mechanics describes a crazy microscopic world where particles whiz around at blistering speeds and routinely violate the classical laws of physics we take for granted.

Being able to see this superfast interaction between electrons gives scientists another tool to unlock the rules that govern the quantum - mechanics world — a world where microscopic objects don't obey the laws of physics we have come to rely on for understanding in the macro world.

Like the dinosaurs themselves, giant marine reptiles, invertebrates and microscopic organisms became extinct after the catastrophic asteroid impact in an immense upheaval of the world's oceans, yet deep sea creatures managed to survive.

The work builds on JILA's world - leading expertise in measuring positions of microscopic objects.

That's the lesson one researcher is taking away from a microscopic analysis of the fairy wasp (Megaphragma mymaripenne), which at a mere 200 micrometers in length is one of the world's smallest animals (shown compared to a paramecium and amoeba above).

Like a team of laboratory gearheads, Arizona State University (A.S.U.) researchers have found a way to soup up microscopic «nanomachines» that may someday be used to deliver lifesaving medications or test the quality of drinking water in remote regions of the world.

These results directly demonstrated for the first time in the world that electron partitioning took place in the p - n junction in the QH regime, and microscopic characteristics of electron partitioning taking place in the graphene p - n junction were quantitatively established for the first time.

MIcroscopic crystals of volcanic ash are revealing surprising clues about the world's most devastating eruptions

This week, a consortium involving 200 investigators from a variety of disciplines describes more than a dozen microscopic communities as part of the most thorough look ever at the microbial world on and within us.

This week, investigators from a variety of disciplines describe more than a dozen microscopic communities as part of the most thorough look ever at the microbial world on and within us.

The latter explains the world of the very small, the microscopic realm of atoms and subatomic particles.

The ability of the ocean to save the globe from climate change may hinge on the behavior of microscopic animals in a dim, watery world.

Scripps graduate student Elizabeth Sibert and Professor Richard Norris analyzed the microscopic teeth of fishes found in sediment cores around the world and found that the abundance of ray - finned fish teeth began to explode in the aftermath of the mass die - off of species, which was triggered by an asteroid strike in the Yucatan Peninsula.

Among the instructors is Manu Prakash, PhD, assistant professor of bioengineering at Stanford and a pioneer in the field of «frugal science,» who has brought his powerful $ 1 paper microscopes to Madagascar and taught students how to explore the microscopic world in which they live, including the lice in their hair, the pathogens in their water and the disease - causing parasites in their environment.

But the critical question, with both fundamental and practical implications, is whether quantum entanglement can be achieved beyond the microscopic realm of elementary particles and into the everyday or «macroscopic» world.

Microscopic black holes could provide a window into the quantum world, the subatomic realm where the most intractable puzzles of physics remain.

Ranked among the top five major plant pathogens in the world, root - knot nematodes are microscopic roundworms that infect the roots of more than 2,000 fruit, vegetable and ornamental crops, such as lettuce, tomatoes, strawberries and carnations, across the world.

The microscopic world of atoms and electrons is still shrouded in mystery.

At present, the implications of these experiments are conveniently ignored by limiting the notion of quantum behavior to the microscopic world.

Already, Berkeley Lab has world - class research capabilities in other electron - beam microscopic imaging techniques, in building nanostructures, and in a range of X-ray experimental techniques, Filippetto noted.

Water may be more common than expected at extreme depths approaching 640 kilometres and possibly beyond — within Earth's lower mantle, says a study that explored microscopic pockets of a trapped form of crystallised water molecules in a sampling of diamonds from around the world.

Did you know there is a microscopic world that affects the science of birth?

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What exactly the film is remains a bit of a mystery, despite (or because of) a trailer and an official synopsis that talks of a couple caught up in «a presence that permeates the microscopic world,» but we'll know much more after Upstream Color debuts next week at Sundance.

She is unknowingly drawn into the life cycle of a presence that permeates the microscopic world, moving to nematodes, plant life, livestock, and back again.»

[Book 3 of 4] Five characters seek survival and understanding as the world around them crumbles, dissolved to dust by The Ravagers, microscopic machines with only one goal.Total destruction.They'll need their wits, courage, and strength to survive, for the Ravagers aren't the most destructive force they'll face.

The water is crystal clear while the pink sand earns its hue from microscopic segments of coral and shells, making for some of the most stunning ocean vistas in the world.

Combining the careful observations of the botanist and the intuitive understanding of an artist, the paintings operate in both microscopic and macroscopic scales offering insight to the dimension of another world.

Like the previous title, Pikmin 2 is built around the idea of exploring an unknown world through the eyes of a microscopic character.

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These works reveal large, connected energy systems punctuated by the minutia of a microscopic lens, continuing her investigation of the problematic psychological relationship between humans and the natural world while simultaneously suggesting an interconnected fate.