Sentences with phrase «on tiny»

The scientists used optogenetics — an innovative research tool that uses light to activate or inhibit select cells in the brain — to stimulate either the go or the stop pathway in mice that were running on a tiny treadmill, while recording neural activity in the brainstem.

«Before Cassini [sic], few people really expected this level of activity on the tiny moon that's Enceladus,» said Less.

And they tested the technology on a tiny slice of an adult mouse's neocortex, gaining new insights into the complex relationship between axons (nerve fibers) and dendrites (branches on neurons that act kind of like electric input sockets).

And as we looked further into the effects of the parasite, we found that it often doesn't really have much effect on cane toads any way - not even on tiny ones.

Dean Toste, left, of Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley, and Elad Gross, right, of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, led a study of site - specific chemical reactivity on tiny platinum and gold particles at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source.

Communication between neurons relies on tiny little puffs of chemicals that float into the space between two neurons.

LIVERMORE, Calif. — In the early morning hours of Aug. 13, Lawrence Livermore's National Ignition Facility (NIF) focused all 192 of its ultra-powerful laser beams on a tiny deuterium - tritium filled capsule.

Peacock spiders, for example, rely on tiny iridescent scales when mating.

Collecting climate data on tiny Nauru has other advantages.

Little clumps of neurons growing on tiny spaces on a microchip that can control their growth and measure their responses.

Imagine a day when law enforcement could rely on a tiny tool to scope out bombs hidden underground in potentially dangerous places.

The researchers focused on tiny galaxies known as «green pea» galaxies due to their compact size.

He did this based on tiny differences in their shape.

Are there any Enceladan bacteria or other little critters swimming in that alien ocean on this tiny moon of Saturn?

14 The Hubble Space Telescope, searching for evolving galaxies in December 1995, focused for 10 continuous days on a tiny patch of sky, so small when viewed from Earth that a grain of sand held at arm's length would cover that area.

It is a beautiful, sunny, but cool day in the little village of Servoz in the French Alps: surrounded by breathtaking snow - capped mountains — among them the legendary Mont Blanc — I am sitting on a tiny railway station waiting for the little red mountain train that will carry me out of the valley.

Few own livestock and their major source of protein is a bean called cowpea, known as «poor man's meat», which the farmers grow on their tiny half - hectare fields.

Traditional ways to measure temperature don't work on tiny flakes of two - dimensional materials that would be used in microprocessors because they are just too small.

Their common goal is to find a single theory that unites quantum mechanics — the theory that describes the behaviour of matter on tiny scales — with Einstein's general theory of relativity, which describes space, time and gravity.

An operator must summon that information manually, and it appears on a tiny 12 - inch screen.

The discovery sheds light on the tiny «environments» that stem cells occupy in animal bodies and may help explain how stem cells in tumors replenish themselves, the researchers report in the May 8 issue of the journal Cell Reports.

Caspi, his hair now silver but still often in a ponytail, grew up on a tiny kibbutz in Israel's Negev Desert.

It is based on a tiny flake of graphene, a material from which a veritable research boom has arisen since its discovery and for which the Nobel Prize was awarded in 2010.

It feeds entirely on tiny animals called plankton, as do humpback whales.

For example, the highly distinct shore plover (Thinornis novaeseelandiae) lives only on the tiny Chatham Islands, near New Zealand.

New work on a tiny, uncelebrated structure inside the nucleus takes scientists another step closer to understanding how cloning works — and perhaps toward boosting its success rates.

Darwin's theory, as any competent reference work describes, is about the differential survival of individual living things based on tiny differences between them.

«Lab experiments show that dielectric breakdown is an explosive process on a tiny scale,» said Jordan.

But he also devotes 25 pages to what he labels «questionable NSF projects,» including pictures showing a shrimp walking on a tiny treadmill and a robot folding laundry.

Their work suggests that the process relies on tiny fragments of RNA in sperm that can pass «echoes» of environmental experience down to future generations.

Presto, it's off to the races: The Demo can scoot along silently for about five minutes on its tiny tankful.

The quake is felt over a 500 - mile - long area, so a whole slew of local news media rapidly converge on the tiny town of Parkfield, population 18, which is about eight miles from both the earthquake's epicenter and the drill site.

Nearly all the theories predict that on tiny scales, approaching the «Planck scale» of 10 - 35 metres, familiar notions of space and time start to disintegrate, giving way to a seething melee of quantum gravitational fluctuations known as «space - time foam».

«We have focused a very energetic laser beam on a tiny iron target — a little thinner than a human hair,» explains Alessandra Ravasio, who led the experiment.

Wearing this elaborate setup, I gaze at a television in front of me, focusing on a tiny cross at the center of the screen.

It feeds on tiny plankton, devastating their populations — and in turn it brings about crashes in the numbers of fish that depend on the plankton for food.

In the second method, called «biolistics», the foreign DNA is coated on tiny beads of metal that are fired into the plant cells.

Vuletic says that at the nanoscale, friction may exact a greater force — for instance, creating wear and tear on tiny motors much faster than occurs at larger scales.

Marina Tanasova, assistant professor of chemistry, and Smitha Rao, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, turned a 10 - minute office meeting into a two - year collaboration built on a tiny fluorescent probe that seeks out the fructose transporter named GLUT5.

The world's smallest chameleon, Brookesia micra, was only recently discovered living exclusively on a tiny rock islet called Nosy Hara, off the northern tip of Madagascar.

«We've pushed the capabilities of LCLS down in the sub-micron region by using extreme focusing that creates a more intense beam on the tiny sample,» Boutet says.

Researchers in Cambridge have now shown that this ability depends on a tiny fragment of the animal's haemoglobin the protein that carries oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body.

Roughly the size of a starling, the little auk is a seabird that feasts almost entirely on tiny zooplankton.

When the powerful electrical currents running through the LHC came to bear on that tiny piece of solder, the resulting heat set off a cascade of events, ending in a sudden release of helium that blew aside several of the collider's massive superconducting magnets.

In 2009, a European team published their research on the tiny circular plankton Emiliania huxleyi, made up of light - reflecting mineralized calcium ovals.

In the brave new digital world of reading, words flash by one at a time on the tiny screens of smart watches and phones.

A group of small lemurs that has no fear of humans and live on a tiny island smaller than New York's Central Park could be a new species of primate

There's big money riding on those tiny intervals.

Inside our heads, instead of making a perfect replica of the world, we focus our attention on tiny snippets, darting our eyes from point to point.

Though fierce - looking and up to 2 meters long, Anomalocaris may have fed — like a dental patient slurping up applesauce — mostly on tiny, softer prey.