Sentences with phrase «tiny region»

«We have begun doing X-ray tomography on large brain tissues, then we've gone deeper into specific tiny regions of interest in the same tissue with an electron microscope to see the full connectome there,» Dyer said.

They hope to show that Barbour's model, unlike Einstein's, does not cause gravity to flare up to infinite levels in tiny regions.

However, the nematic phase formed by the worms is filled with tiny regions where the local alignment is lost — defects in the otherwise aligned material.

As a matter of fact, the very tiniest region deep inside the structure is actually outside the structure in the same way that any object in the hole of a donut is outside the donut.

Brain - imaging studies have revealed we evolved several tiny regions the size of blueberries in the temporal lobe — the area under the temple — that specialize in responding to faces.

The long strand forms tiny regions called hairpins, where the strand folds back on itself.

This behavior stems from an unusual feature of certain complex oxides called phase separation, in which tiny regions in the material exhibit vastly different electronic and magnetic properties.

«The Voyagers are sampling tiny regions as they plow through space at roughly 38,000 miles per hour.

And all of that research can take place only in those two tiny regions of Australia and South Africa.

However, since even the tiniest region contains an infinity of points, this argument is not decisive.

Neff and Ulvestad think future images of Arp 299 will reveal a new supernova blazing in this tiny region every 2 years, on average — a rate 50 times higher than produced by entire galaxies elsewhere.

One notable exception is a tiny region of the hippocampus known as CA2.

Hu suspected the drug might target a tiny region in the middle of the brain called the lateral habenula, the so - called «anti — reward center.»

When two such particles collide at close range, their energy is concentrated into a tiny region of space.

Like intertwining cogwheels in a mechanical watch, a pool of periodically expressed genes keeps time in a tiny region of the brain called the suprachiasmatic nucleus.

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.

The solution requires that a fantastic amount of energy, roughly equal to the Planck energy, be concentrated on a tiny region.

What is astounding is that each individual neuron in this tiny region that is smaller than a pin's head displays the ability to predict and selectively respond to unexpected motion.

In vertebrates, a master clock is located in the awesome - sounding suprachiasmatic nucleus, a tiny region of brain cells in the hypothalamus.

As transistors get smaller and smaller, occupying ever - tinier regions of a silicon chip, it becomes increasingly likely that any given region (barely tens of nanometers across) may have too many or too few dopant atoms.

Tiny regions of compositionally distinct rock (red material, known as ultra-low velocity zones), collect at Earth's core - mantle boundary (tan surface), nearly halfway to the center of our planet.

New research published in the November 2014 issue of The FASEB Journal further adds to our understanding of the circadian rhythm by suggesting that the suprachiasmaticus nucleus (SCN) clock, a tiny region of the hypothalamus considered to be the body's «master» timekeeper, is not necessary to align body rhythms with the light - dark cycle.

When the researchers sent juice through the electrode, this tiny region lightened up, while all neighboring ones stayed dark.

The data pointed to a tiny region in the brain called the LVN.

To put this into perspective, the image above shows you the tiny region of space that Kepler observes, which equates to around 0.28 % of the night sky.

Photographed about eight days after it exploded, Supernova 1997ff (SN1997ff) was found by astronomers comparing the northern Hubble Deep Field, a 10 - day observation of a tiny region of sky first explored by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995, with a follow - up observation in 1997.

However, the two main draws of the this tiny region are its magnificent ruins and the colossal market that dominates the streets on various days throughout the week, with the biggest market appearing on Sunday.

The researchers found that the composite material not only could control both NIR light and visible light, but that there was «a synergistic interaction in the tiny region where glassy matrix meets nanocrystal that increases the potency of the electrochromic effect,» which means that thinner coatings of the material could pack just as much punch.