Sentences with phrase «on microscopic scales»

Precision engineering on microscopic scales even lets us devise metamaterials that behave in ways that nature can't match — like those that manipulate light to make much - celebrated «invisibility cloaks».

The attraction and repulsion effects make up what is known as the «optical force,» a newly observed phenomenon that works on microscopic scales.

7 On the microscopic scale, there seem to be Whiteheadian equivalents to horizonal having - been and horizonal advent / future.

Second, developments in physics have changed the conception of reality on a microscopic scale.

The Copenhagen interpretation allows for non-deterministic processes on a microscopic scale — a genuine kind of randomness.

Natural childbirth and homebirth are safer on the microscopic scale!

«On a microscopic scale various layers of cement appear, and each one provides information on the moment when they precipitated, the conditions that existed, etc.» Secondly, they analysed the materials trapped in these cements where «we found foundry slag from the industrial revolution, even waste bearing the seals of European companies that used to dump their slag when they arrived with their vessels.

Instead, he suggests that individual clusters could be used to guide self - assembling materials on a microscopic scale.

Despite the fact that a great many storage devices — among them computer hard drives and cassette tapes — rely on magnetic materials, scientists don't really know how they operate on a microscopic scale.

It's much easier to move things in gross distance than to work on a microscopic scale.

Their research, which also shows how chemical reactions can be studied on a microscopic scale using tools of physics, is reported in the journal Science.

Such behavior also takes place on a microscopic scale, such as when bacteria roam the folds of the gut.

Liquid - metal sources, their conical shape generated by electrostatic fields, produce charged atoms that can cut away and rebuild circuits on a microscopic scale

That way it is possible to trace the formation of the crystal on the microscopic scale.

By manipulating the process to precisely manage the solidification on a microscopic scale, the researchers demonstrated 3 - dimensional control of the microstructure, or crystallographic texture, of a nickel - based part during formation.

To fix genes on a microscopic scale, one cell at a time, the faulty code has to be located and physically cut — and that's what CRISPR - Cas9 does.

This ability to control waves derives from how the material is structured, often on a microscopic scale.

If a cause isn't found, a renal biopsy can be taken for histopathology so that types of cells and structure of the kidney can be analysed on a microscopic scale which may aid in the diagnosis; however, the renal biopsy isn't always reliable.

The visit to Pirelli HangarBicocca winds its way through twelve works, in the form of massive installations or sculptures on a microscopic scale, which involve every aspect of the visitor's perceptions.

Not exact matches

Looking back on it, I can definitely see the similarities in terms of what it takes to envision, manage, and build complex structures, whether that's accomplished on the enormous scale of a city or on the microscopic level of a semiconductor chip with billions of transistors.

Whiteheadians seem able to imagine such ecstatically spanned unities - across - time on the so - called «microscopic» scale of the «specious present,» but give up on the idea as the scope of the temporal disclosure space is widened to the scale of human lifetime and of generations.7 But worse than this from the point of view of Heidegger's temporal problematic, by submitting the ecstatic unities of their «specious presents» to the before / after ordering and metric properties of linear time, at least in terms of their mutually external relations and arrangements, they give back ontologically every advantage they gained from the use of an cc - static - temporal disclosure horizon in the first place, even though it was only the single horizon of presence.

ANCIENT COLOR Scientists found microscopic texturing on the scales of moths from the Jurassic Period that resembles what's seen today in Micropterix aruncella (shown).

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).

On the scale of microscopic structures, we are virtually blind.

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.

«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.

I think at the macroscopic scale any life we discover will have evolved by Darwinian evolution; at the microscopic scale it will be based on carbon chemistry.

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 successfully adopted a technology to confine electrons into microscopic devices, on the scale of few microns.

Where the forces differ is that electromagnetism behaves in essentially the same simple way on all scales, varying only in its general strength, whereas gravity becomes increasingly rococo as you zoom into microscopic scales — signaling that the theory eventually gives way to a deeper one such as string theory or loop quantum gravity.

The mice seem to develop normally when only one copy of the gene is removed, but microscopic inspection reveals a number of small «gaps,» or disorganized regions of tissue (on the scale of a few nanometers) on their aortas, the largest artery in their bodies.

These predictions, which were verified by comparisons with high - resolution microscopic images of real molecules on metal surfaces, may lead to controlled, large - scale fabrication of tiny electrical wires and other nanomaterials for future devices.

Lars Berglund, a professor at Wallenberg Wood Science Center at KTH, says that while optically transparent wood has been developed for microscopic samples in the study of wood anatomy, the KTH project introduces a way to use the material on a large scale.

Amonette's chapter focuses on the chemical makeup of biochar at the microscopic and molecular scale.

Tobey rejected scale and monumentality to create «microscopic» worlds and intimate compositions, based on an intense observation of nature, the city, and the flow of light.

Similarly working alongside scientific processes, Jordan Tate's large - scale, inkjet on fabric prints New Work # 195 and New Work # 194 (both 2014) manipulate scale to an exponential level, harnessing microscopic vision to capture mark making on a molecular level, expanding the field of vision.

100 % certainty means we know every possible potential driver of global temperature on the scales of subatomic particles, atoms and molecules, the microscopic, the macroscopic, the Earth, the Solar System, the galaxy, and the Universe.

The bravery, the ingenuity, the collaboration on a massive scale that could design and engineer everything from microscopic circuitry to million pound rocket boosters simply filled me with admiration and awe.

In a system such as the climate, we can never include enough variables to describe the actual system on all relevant length scales (e.g. the butterfly effect — MICROSCOPIC perturbations grow exponentially in time to drive the system to completely different states over macroscopic time) so the best that we can often do is model it as a complex nonlinear set of ordinary differential equations with stochastic noise terms — a generalized Langevin equation or generalized Master equation, as it were — and average behaviors over what one hopes is a spanning set of butterfly - wing perturbations to assess whether or not the resulting system trajectories fill the available phase space uniformly or perhaps are restricted or constrained in some way.

The only motion occurring at any scale is the microscopic thermal diffusive motion present in any equilibrium gas, and any hypothesized bulk expansion or contraction contradicts both the fact that it is in force equilibrium and that gravity does no work on things that are not moving.

Wind, sun, and waves grind down large - scale plastic artifacts, leaving the seas full of microscopic plastic particles that will eventually rain down on the ocean floor, creating a layer that could persist for geological timescales.