Sentences with phrase «tiny hair on»

The Tokay gecko scurries across ceilings with the help of tiny hair on its feet, which generate weak intermolecular forces that add up to a secure foothold.

Bumblebees can detect and make sense of electric fields using the tiny hairs on their body.

Tiny hairs on gecko toes do a great job of keeping the little lizards from dropping off a ceiling, but gecko - inspired adhesives can get overwhelmed by human - sized burdens.

To create a believable tree, you need both true - to - life textures — Prusinkiewicz and his colleagues have recently created a tool for simulating the tiny hairs on the surface of a leaf — and you need a realistic branch structure.

When an ant does end up underwater, tiny hairs on its body can trap bubbles of air that give the bug a buoyancy boost.

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According to InfiniLED's website, the startup's ILED display technology is powered by millions of tiny LED chips, each roughly one - tenth the width of a strand of human hair, that are assembled on electronic circuits.

In fact, I would put you somewhere on the evolutionary diagram right between the fur - clad fellow with the gnarled hair and the spear and the tiny curl - tailed primate.

Just drizzle a little olive oil over the ears of corn (after they've been shucked and the tiny hairs pulled off), and add a sprinkle of salt and pepper and place them on the grill.

Secretly, we've only included this because we quite like the idea that the tiny island of hair on the top of Steve McClaren's forehead might also be a whale, albeit a tiny one, and that at some point this season it's just going to shudder into life, then slip back into his skull, never to be seen again.)

I plant a kiss on his head, and sniff his hair the way I used to when he was tiny, when he was a toddler.

My girls were born with a lot of hair, so when they were babies, I'd use these little guys to make tiny pony tails on the tops of their heads.

On the doll's hair, there will be a tiny braid at the side.

Your baby is really starting to take on the look of a real little person now, with their hair and eyebrows beginning to grow, and they're starting to develop their own set of fingerprints in place on their tiny fingers!

Or smacks or hair pulling or a tiny human being's entire body on the face.

As I look down at the gangly long legs and full head of hair that have replaced, almost by miracle, the tiny whispy - haired baby of yesterday, I reflect on our nursing journey.

For years, the prevailing hypothesis was that these were a form of tiny hairs called pili, similar to those found on other types of bacteria.

The flat, wingless insects are tiny (between one and two millimeters long — less than a tenth of an inch), suck on human blood, and cement their eggs, or nits, to our hair.

As DNA passes through a tiny opening in the pore — an opening that is just 0.00000012 centimeters wide, or 1/10, 000 th the width of a human hair — the current shifts based on the sequence of DNA letters.

The case hinged on tiny fragments of blood, hair and fibres found on Dobson's clothes.

The technology builds on tiny structures known as silicon photonic wires, which are roughly a hundred times narrower than a typical human hair.

Aside from greater autonomy and resiliency, Ferrari said her lab plans to help outfit RoboBee with new micro devices such as a camera, expanded antennae for tactile feedback, contact sensors on the robot's feet and airflow sensors that look like tiny hairs.

The produced structures resemble tiny bottlebrushes with polymer «hairs» on the nanorod surface.

Geckos walk up and down walls with the greatest of ease, thanks to tiny, spatula - shaped «hairs» on their feet that adhere and release (SN: 7/15/00, p. 47).

Both had what looked like tiny barbed hairs stuck to their bodies — these hairlike structures are frequently found on beetle larvae that hung out in dinosaur nests.

The hairs end in tiny nanostructures that interact at the atomic level with molecules on the surface the gecko is trying to grip.

In a new study, published online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers used a laser vibrometer — a tiny machine that hits the bee hair with a laser — to measure how the hair on a bee's body responds to a flower's tiny electric field.

The researchers incubate cells with tiny snippets of single - stranded DNA engineered to slip into the cells» outer membranes, covering each cell like the hairs on a tennis ball.

The tiny claws are well - suited to clasping tiny fibres, like miniature hair on plant and animal surfaces.

We already knew that E. coli can grip to human cells using hair - like appendages that have tiny protein hooks on their tips, but until now no one had worked out the structure of this protein, called FimH, or how it interacts with human cells.

This ability, outlined today in the Journal of Applied Physics, is a remarkable mechanism in the toes of geckos that uses tiny, branched hairs called «seta» that can instantly turn their stickiness on and off, and even «unstick» their feet without using any energy.

In contrast, perovskite solar cells depend on a layer of tiny crystals — each about 1,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair — made of low - cost, light - sensitive materials.

These structures of carbon may be tiny — a nanotube's diameter is about 10,000 times smaller than a human hair — but their impact on science and technology has been enormous.

The hairs are tipped by tiny sacs filled with a substance that sticks to any insect that alights on the leaf.

«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.

After analyzing the videos, they found that, as the animal dipped its tongue in and out of the flower, tiny blood vessels on the hairs of its tongue became engorged with blood, prompting the hairs to stand straight up and drag even more nectar up from the flower.

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

They also combined powerful microscopes with high speed cameras, capturing footage of the tiny hairs, or cilia, on the corals» surface.

Another research group is working on a way to identify people from proteins found in a tiny strand of hair.

The tiny particles are 1,000 times smaller than the tip of a human hair, and are designed to latch on to atherosclerotic plaques — hard deposits made from accumulated fat, cholesterol and calcium that build up on the walls of arteries and are prone to rupture, producing dangerous clots.

Tiny hair - like structures on cells lining your airways, called cilia, push the mucus back up to your throat.

I'm only on my third batch of broccoli sprouts, but I have found this to be true; it's amazing how much the tiny root hairs look like white mold, but they're not mold, and they do rinse right off.

When you see them jogging on the beach in tiny shorts from behind, their smooth skin and atletic body, you would think they are 35 - 45 y.o.. Its just their face and hair that gives them out

I plan on rubbing a little on a tiny area of her skin like on her hand or forearm before applying a bunch on her hair / scalp to check for any reaction or irritation.

Make up a tiny amount of the homemade hair dye and try it on a small discreet strand of hair, leave it for around 30 minutes before washing out.

My go - to contour MAC «Harmony «Powder Blush was put under the cheekbone and around hair and jawline, and a tiny dab of Bobby Browns Shimmer Brick in «Beige «on the bridge of my nose.

To create this look I gathered hair on the top of my head into a tight ponytail using these tiny hair ties.

If you're going to wear a suit to look professional, please for the love of pizza, take a few minutes to do something to your hair and put on a teensy tiny bit of makeup or an accessory or two.

3 trips to New York 2 adventures in places I've never been before (NOLA + Havana) Tried casual sex twice (spoiler alert: I AM TERRIBLE AT IT) 1 weekend spent in a tiny home on a vinyard 2 mended friendships 6 times deleting all of my online dating profiles (and just as many re-building them) 1 book pitch to a publisher 11 hair colour changes 1 new nephew (honorary nephew, but still!)

You simply apply with an angled liner brush, dipping a tiny amount of product on your brush and swiping it along the hair growth pattern through the brow.

Sweep it on from the inner corner to just before the arch using tiny strokes and going in the direction of the hair growth.