Sentences with phrase «tiny measuring devices»

Now, for the first time, a team of scientists led by Professor Simon Schultz and Dr Luca Annecchino at Imperial College London has developed a robot and computer programme that can guide tiny measuring devices called micropipettes to specific neurons in the brains of live mice and record electrical currents, all without human intervention.

Although physicists say the technique has a way to go before it can be applied, they envision its being used for developing tiny measuring devices or to make tiny generators.

Not exact matches

President Trump appeared to take a tiny step toward the narrowest possible gun control measures on Tuesday, saying that he signed a memo directing Attorney General Jeff Sessions to propose a rule banning some devices, such as bump stocks, which he said can turn otherwise legal guns into machine guns.

SQUID — or Street Quality Identification Device — is a tiny contraption that sits on the bed of a pickup truck used by the Syracuse Department of Public Works, designed to measure the quality of the streets of Syracuse.

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology helps measure everything from the tiniest nanotech devices to massive aeroplanes.

It sports a tiny sensor that measures glucose in tears and an antenna that wirelessly transmits the data to a connected device.

Their stickiness makes it hard to get them through an inlet into a measuring device, but these compounds may play a significant role in the formation and alteration of aerosols, tiny airborne particles that can contribute to smog or to the nucleation of raindrops or ice crystals, affecting the Earth's climate.

Measuring just microns across, these tiny devices convert light into electrons, whose subsequent movement generates an electronic signal.

The latest version of the device, which can measure 50 to 100 cells per hour, consists of a series of SMR sensors that weigh cells as they flow through tiny channels.

The ball area of one of the boots is fitted with a tiny radar device that measures the distance each IMU travels with each footstep.

Not only can the handheld device sense the atomic - scale motion of its tiny parts with unprecedented precision, but the researchers have devised a method to mass produce the highly sensitive measuring tool.

«Faster, smaller, more informative: Device can measure the distribution of tiny particles as they flow through a microfluidic channel.»

However, by combining the capabilities of the Surface Forces Apparatus (SFA)-- a device that can measure the tiny forces generated by the interaction of two surfaces at the sub-nano scale — and simultaneous imaging using a fluorescence microscope, the researchers were able to see in real time how the cell membranes rearrange in order to connect and open a fusion conduit between them.

These defects were observed by measuring tiny electrical currents created when charges that were frozen in the traps at extremely cold temperatures escape by receiving a jolt of thermal energy as the device is heated, a process called thermally stimulated current.

In 2015, Andersen and collaborators successfully implanted tiny prosthetic devices into the PPC of paralyzed patients; these so - called neuroprosthetics measure the movement intentions of the patient — to pick up a cup to take a drink, for example — and execute those movements accurately with a robotic arm.

And by «unmanned spacecraft,» I really mean a tiny, laser - propelled electronic device measuring just 3.2 centimeters to a side.

Regardless of the machine, the devices work by sending tiny electrical impulses through the body and measuring how quickly those impulses return.

It's clear from everyone else's work that you can't actually measure the skin temperature with this kind of device — because of the tiny skin thickness — so the actual «subskin» temperature measured is an average of the top 3 mm.

Using harnesses, a machine and a measuring device to pull these discs off different textured surfaces, they found that the clingfish's disc can generate adhesive forces 80 to 230 times their body weight, allowing this tiny fish to hang onto rocks, and to hunt limpets (round molluscs that also cling to rocks).