«The Voyagers are
sampling tiny regions as they plow through space at roughly 38,000 miles per hour.
Not exact matches
In order to determine its origin, Italian scientists took a
tiny sample from the blade and compared the proportion of lead isotope — a kind of «finger print» of the ore deposits which remains unchanged in any objects subsequently made from the ore — with the corresponding data from numerous mineral deposits in Europe and the entire Mediterranean
region.
The rate of electrons passing through the tip - in other words, the current - is a measure of the density of electrons in the
tiny region of the
sample directly below it.
MIXED ANCESTRY
Tiny samples taken from ancient European skulls, in a process shown here, yielded enough DNA for researchers to determine that farmers and foragers interbred in three different
regions from 8,000 to nearly 4,000 years ago.
«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.