Sentences with phrase «than forming clumps»

Not exact matches

If particles of dark matter had never formed the clumps they are in today, they would scurry around space at no more than a sluggish 54 metres per second.

In carbon dioxide, for example, these multiple isotopes are found more often than expected — a phenomenon called clumping — which leads to a powerful tool for measuring the temperatures at which the molecules formed, now and in the ancient past.

Building planets is easier than cooking a turkey: Take a lot of gas and dust, stir gently, allow clumps to form, then leave alone for 10 million years.

More than half of the 91 blastomeres divided at least once, and 28 formed clumps that grew in culture.

The first stars could have formed from clouds of gas (red) clumping around long strings of dark matter (above) rather than coalescing within dark matter clumps (below).

Most astronomers think the universe started forming its recognizable structure around clumps of dark matter, the mysterious substance that collectively weighs six times more than all the visible matter and so far has eluded all attempts to detect it directly (ScienceNOW, 13 September).

Consequently, the molecules in the room - temperature cream moved faster than the ones in the chilled cream, allowing the room - temperature fat molecules to clump together faster, thereby forming butter faster.

Now an old theory that might explain it has been resurrected: gas left over from the formation of Jupiter meddled with the rocks that formed Mars, making them fall apart rather than clump together.

It is leftover debris from the stuff that clumped together more than four billion years ago to form Earth and the other planets.

The mutations that cause the disease make a protein called PABPN1 longer and stickier than normal, and the mutated protein appears to form clumps in muscle cells.

The huntingtin protein, which in its mutant form causes Huntington's disease, is difficult to study because it forms clumps rather than neat crystals.

Rather than urine collecting on the bottom of the litter box, it forms hard clumps that are easily removed.