Sentences with phrase «of tiny hairs»

This micrograph image of an oak leaf ¹ s surface reveals bunches of tiny hairs called trichomes, which concentrate light for photosynthesis and reduce water loss.

They also combined powerful microscopes with high speed cameras, capturing footage of the tiny hairs, or cilia, on the corals» surface.

ROWERS Thousands of tiny hairs, or cilia, line a paramecium's outer edge and work like oars to propel it through the water.

Symbion is a tiny animal about half a millimetre long, shaped like a bulbous tube with a ring of tiny hairs — cilia — at one end.

Because human skin absorbs light and has the added complication of tiny hairs, it can be tricky to image clearly, but with the new device, called GelSight, pictures like the one above are easy to snap.

They found high concentrations of sensors known as Merkel cells at the base of tiny hairs that cover the wings, they report online today in Cell Reports.

The substance mimics the design of gecko feet, which are covered in millions of tiny hairs that each end in a profusion of spatula - shaped tips.

Thousands of tiny hairs in the cochlea bend when exposed to the original sound vibrations.

For years, the prevailing hypothesis was that these were a form of tiny hairs called pili, similar to those found on other types of bacteria.

Gecko feet are covered by billions of tiny hair tips, or spatulae, that hug surfaces.

The Tokay gecko scurries across ceilings with the help of tiny hair on its feet, which generate weak intermolecular forces that add up to a secure foothold.

The difference can be found in the thickness of the hair, as well as in the rate of hair growth — plus the texture of each tiny hair.

Not exact matches

Whether it is women looking for a shade of hosiery or makeup foundation that matches their skin tone, or hair products that aren't relegated to the tiny «ethnic» section of the store, finding products and services that meet our unique needs is often challenging.

According to InfiniLED's website, the startup's ILED display technology is powered by millions of tiny LED chips, each roughly one - tenth the width of a strand of human hair, that are assembled on electronic circuits.

Panasonic has trademarked a unique nanoe ™ technology that takes the moisture from your hair and in the air, and uses it to create tiny, moisture - rich particles that penetrate the shafts of hair.

Picture me with a hair dryer, a drill, and a bunch of tiny parts and screws.

Locusts adorned with tiny crowns, the face of a man, the hair of a woman, the mouth of a lion and the stinger of a scorpion will come to wreak vengeance?

The Book of Relevation also talks about armor - clad locusts with teh face of a man, the hair of a woman, the mouth of a lion and the tail of scorpion wearing tiny little crowns.

We let the tinies read the Bible verses and I looked down the table at my father, his once curly red hair now a close - cropped white, holding the Bible open for my son, listening to Joe read about the love of God towards us all.

But I can never remember whether the dragon comes before or after the locust that wears armor and a tiny little crown and has the face of a man, the hair of a woman, the mouth of a lion and the tail of a scorpion.

I don't have a lot of time before the tinies come stumbling down the hall, hair sticking up like rooster tails and yawning while already talking a mile a minute.

That's like you snipping off the tiniest bit of one hair, knowing it will grow back.

But tell you what — if an entomologist finds the locust from Revelation that wears armor and a tiny little crown and has the face of a man, the hair of a woman, the mouth of a lion and the tail of a scorpion, I'll convert.

The bible is like an ancient History channel «Monster Quest» show, where every week they find a tiny bit of hair, or slight indentation that they claim must be evidence of Bigfoot, but somehow they never find him...

Just drizzle a little olive oil over the ears of corn (after they've been shucked and the tiny hairs pulled off), and add a sprinkle of salt and pepper and place them on the grill.

Secretly, we've only included this because we quite like the idea that the tiny island of hair on the top of Steve McClaren's forehead might also be a whale, albeit a tiny one, and that at some point this season it's just going to shudder into life, then slip back into his skull, never to be seen again.)

If you've got it, flaunt it — and your hair will remain perfect until the excess energy you used powering two hair dryers will hasten the world's expenditure of fossil fuels to the point where we can no longer afford the electricity to power hair dryers, and instead resort into walking into darkened caves full of bats and allowing the collective heat of their tiny nocturnal bodies to hasten the evaporation of our surplus hair water.

I can commit to shorter showers, but I have long, thick, super curly hair, I (literally) could not get all of my hair wet in less than 3 minutes, much less lathered, rinsed, and conditioned, and then there's actually bathing, another 3 - 5 minutes (I happen to have a small shower, I could not possibly extend my arms even halfway standing in the middle, which believe it or not, adds time to my shower, trying to maneuver in a tiny space) I will commit to trying to get my time down below 30 minutes, though.

The nose is an amazing filter lined with tiny hairs called «cilia», which help to filter, humidify and warm or cool air, therefore protecting your body from particles of foreign matters.

The hair is beautiful but a tiny part of me regrets letting my daughter have a say in the length.

My girls were born with a lot of hair, so when they were babies, I'd use these little guys to make tiny pony tails on the tops of their heads.

And she was perfect: the most beautiful shade of pink I had ever seen; a mouth like a tiny bow; a head full of strawberry blonde hair.

Your baby is really starting to take on the look of a real little person now, with their hair and eyebrows beginning to grow, and they're starting to develop their own set of fingerprints in place on their tiny fingers!

Tiny kidneys are now starting to make urine and the first few strands of downy hair are beginning to appear.

I remember looking at him, his tiny body buried beneath the full head of black hair and the skin he'd yet to grow into.

When James was born he weighed 7 lbs 13oz, with a head full of hair and delightfully tiny toes.

A note to new moms with long hair: Strands of hair can end up tightly wrapped around your baby's tiny appendages, including his fingers, toes, wrists, ankles, and penis.

There's nothing like the surprise of a pair of tiny hands, suddenly violently pulling at mom's hair.

It allows for easy grasping of those fine hairs that get in her face and makes it simple to throw a barrette or tiny ponytail in her bangs so she can see!

Like, how can such a tiny little body produce so much poop, that it leaks out of a diaper and gets all over a baby's back and clothes and hair and legs?!

This solid milk creates a plug - a tiny string cheese, the thickness of angel hair pasta - which causes a back up of milk inside your breast.

As I look down at the gangly long legs and full head of hair that have replaced, almost by miracle, the tiny whispy - haired baby of yesterday, I reflect on our nursing journey.

She helped the trio build a forest of tiny carbon nanotubes, cylinders of pure carbon 10,000 times smaller than a human hair, that could boast over 2000 square metres of area per gram.

They were the first to demonstrate that a microwave beam could actually lift a real structure — a tiny sail, about 1.4 inches in diameter, composed of lightweight carbon fibers 10 times thinner than a human hair.

Hairspray consists of tiny polymer beads that must hold hair in place, he explains, and «that's like taking a spot of glue and putting it between two huge steel levers and expecting it to hold the levers in place.»

To figure out just how tiny and penetrating those galena crystals are, a team of investigators from the Center for Research and Restoration of the Museums of France (C2RMF), L'Oral Research and Argonne National Laboratory soaked blond hairs in a solution of the Greco - Roman chemicals for up to three days.

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.

The flat, wingless insects are tiny (between one and two millimeters long — less than a tenth of an inch), suck on human blood, and cement their eggs, or nits, to our hair.

At magnifications ranging from 10x to 5000x, the photographs reveal amazing details of the honeybee's features, down to the hairs that protrude from its compound eyes and the tiny hooks that hold its wings together.

It then combines with pollutants from combustion — mainly nitrogen oxides and sulfates from vehicles, power plants and industrial processes — to create tiny solid particles, or aerosols, no more than 2.5 micrometers across, about 1/30 the width of a human hair.