Sentences with phrase «of tiny structures»

Diedricksen also built a small series of tiny structures in his backyard.

We believe that the inherent versatility of tiny structures (especially those on wheels), makes them relevant to all walks of life.

Cells contain thousands of tiny structures called mitochondria, which generate energy and harbor their own DNA distinct from the cell's nucleus.

«Mechanical behavior of tiny structures is affected by atomic defects.»

Not exact matches

While you might guess that I grew up to be an architect, in a sense, you'd be right, although I didn't design enormous structures made of concrete but tiny structures made of silicon.

By the time I arrived, the concrete structure was filled with groups working on experiments, and the tens of thousands of tiny corals were back in their tanks outside.

There is absolutely no evidence anywhere in the known univers, from the tiniest subatomic particle to the structure of the universe as a whole, that even remotely implies the faintest possibility thata deity exists.

I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with a devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.»

In this sense, and only this sense, I am a deeply religious man... I am satisfied with the mystery of life's eternity and with a knowledge, a sense, of the marvelous structure of existence — as well as the humble attempt to understand even a tiny portion of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.»

From the basic «master story» of a culture or community to the tiniest metaphor, our language results in social attitudes, behavior, roles, and structures.

As a matter of fact, the very tiniest region deep inside the structure is actually outside the structure in the same way that any object in the hole of a donut is outside the donut.

Enough for me the mystery of the eternity of life, and the inkling of the marvelous structure of reality, together with the single - hearted endeavour to comprehend a portion, be it never so tiny, of the reason that manifests itself in nature.

When I first developed this recipe for Paleo pancakes, I used a tiny bit of coconut flour rather than tapioca starch / flour for structure.

It adds lightness, structure and a tiny bit of binding qualities to baked goods and has practically no flavor.

The tiny bit of added xanthan gum helps the popovers keep their structure and aids in browning and crisping the outsides.

Seven miles away to the south are the tiny, clean structures of the Olympic ski jumps and the toy village of Lake Placid.

Liverworts are a group of ground - hugging plants with male and female reproductive structures shaped like tiny palm trees.

Tiny light - scattering structures that give today's butterflies and moths their brilliant hues date back to the days of the dinosaurs.

Costa and Jin implanted tiny electrodes in each mouse's brain to record the activity of neurons within the striatum, a structure deep in the brain known to be involved in motor commands.

«Our technology combines the properties of superconductivity with tiny structures that can only be seen with a microscope.

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.

Tiny hook structures stand out in the newborn's ribs — most likely the remnants of prehistoric black squid arms.

Ho and her colleagues created these delicate structures by attaching droplets of liquid gallium to tiny silicon wires and immersing them in a gas containing methane.

The triangular structure must be tiny in width to make possible the «lateral confinement» of phonons needed for the effect.

Simulations (colored images) of this process showed the formation of tiny pores, which was in agreement with the structure (grayscale image) observed in a scanning electron microscope.

Einstein's theories also opened a rift in physics because the rules of general relativity (which describe gravity and the large - scale structure of the cosmos) seem incompatible with those of quantum physics (which govern the realm of the tiny).

Stuart Hameroff, an anesthesiologist who has spent many years studying brain functions, has collaborated with renowned Oxford University polymath Roger Penrose on a model that explains consciousness as the result of quantum processes occurring in tiny structures called microtubules in brain cells.

The tiny Japanese island of Yonaguni, near Taiwan, has become famous for the huge submerged rock structures found near its shores — the ancient city of a lost civilisation, some claim.

So scientists investigated their 3D structure using x-ray nanotomography, a way of peering within tiny structures without destroying them.

As it turned out, he didn't need the slices, because the CT scans revealed two football - shaped lobes of fat contained within two sets of «lips» — tiny structures located in the nasal passage just below the blowhole.

Graptolites, whose name means written in rock, were tiny animals that lived in colonies of little cuplike structures known as theca.

All owe their colour not to pigments, but to the way light reflects off tiny structures on their surface, says Beverley Glover at the University of Cambridge.

Some aim to reverse the age - related decline in the functioning of mitochondria — the multitude of tiny power - producing structures within cells.

While the vast majority of our genes are housed in the nucleus, the cytoplasm contains tiny energy - producing structures called mitochondria, which have their own set of 13 genes.

We introduced a new concept that mechanics of these tiny crystalline ceramic structures are dependent on atomic defects.

Matteo Boretto, the first author on this study, commented that «we were very excited to see that we could not only robustly grow and amplify endometrial tissue in a dish, but that the tiny structures were also able to reproduce normal responses of the endometrium to hormones: oestrogen makes the tissue thicken, progesterone then induces maturation including folding (see picture), and subsequent removal of both hormones mimics the cell shedding of the menstrual period.»

These tiny bits are the same size and shape as the pigment - bearing structures (called melanosomes) found in the skin and scales of modern - day lizards and in the feathers of birds.

An imaging technique that freezes tiny biological objects such as proteins and viruses in place so that scientists can peer into their structures at the scale of atoms has won its developers the 2017 Nobel Prize in chemistry.

The structure of the bones also suggests the tiny dinos were flexing their legs in the egg to strengthen their muscles — the earliest evidence of embryonic bodybuilding in the fossil record.

But both structures tend to break apart and recombine frequently, on the order of extremely tiny fractions of a second.

Because X-ray crystallography doesn't reveal the structure of a material on a per - atom basis, the technique can't identify tiny imperfections in materials such as the absence of a single atom.

«To create these structures, we used nonlinear bottlebrush - like block copolymers as tiny reactors to template the growth of an exciting variety of inorganic nanorods.»

Milton Cole of Pennsylvania State University in University Park thinks that tiny variations in the crystalline structure of the cesium could somehow provide a foothold for the superfluid.

But when a team of evolutionary biologists took a closer look at the brittlestar's skeleton, they realized that the tiny crystal structures probably had nothing to do with vision.

«Among such structures, one of the more interesting is similar to structures found in nature, and is referred to as a «moth - eye» pattern: tiny nanopillars which can «beat» the Fresnel equations at certain wavelengths and angles.»

But the layered structure of his half - cylinder - shaped hyperlens preserves these evanescent waves, allowing incredibly tiny objects to be resolved.

And all of this thanks to tiny structures that are up to 1,000 times smaller than a human hair.»

Microtubule bundles line the cilia — tiny, hairlike structures — of a paramecium, shown here both from the side and in cross section.

The recipe, described in Nature, allows human pluripotent stem cells to spontaneously attempt to assemble into a tiny approximation of a whole brain by making whatever brain structures the stem cells choose.

Chang says it would cost about $ 20 million, a tiny fraction of the $ 2 billion radio astronomers want for the proposed Square Kilometre Array (SKA) of radio telescopes, which aims to trace large - scale structure by locating individual galaxies.