Sentences with phrase «such tiny structures»

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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.

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.

«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.»

«Our tests indicate we can operate on tiny structures such as blood vessels without damaging them,» said Thomas Looi, the project director for one of the partners that developed KidsArm at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) Centre for Image - Guided Innovation & Therapeutic Intervention (CIGITI) in Toronto, Canada.

This image was recently published in The Astrophysical Journal and provides a glimpse of the molecular organization of such tiny ice structures.

Feathers, like most opaque objects, typically get their color from pigments in surface coatings (much as melanin colors skin) or from tiny surface structures that reflect light, such as those found on iridescent butterflies and beetles.

Modern imaging techniques allowed the scientists to visualise new features, such as the tiny details of the T. brandonensis muscle structure.

The material forms tiny crystals — a chemically ordered state — but with intrinsic randomness, such that the orientations of the stacked molecules can be arbitrary and the sizes of the crystals different, forming aggregate structures that are highly disordered.

Such a structure should have the necessary tiny quantum wires, though at the time there was no direct evidence for them.

«It is tiny, but it is a very crucial structure in the brain in terms of regulation of life - supporting activities,» such as metabolism, reproduction, and growth.

Such materials exist because their molecular structure consists of tiny magnetic patches that all point in...

Tiny critters» abodes may be the pillings of super structures such as the resort oil rig off Mabul Island, the shallow flats off Indonesia's Lembeh Strait or Belize's impressive reef and 3 atolls.

With Somewhere Small, a series of 25 + adorable nature hangouts, he starts each one from scratch, responsible for the spread of curious building materials, such as tiny lumber for structure and equally tiny art pieces for good taste.

Much of this knowledge was later transposed into complex, diagrammatic pictures such as Family Portrait (1958) and The Great Mystery II (1960; both Buffalo, NY, Albright — Knox A.G.), which are characterized by grid structures of tiny squares in bright opaque colours.