Sentences with phrase «tiny structures»

We believe that the inherent versatility of tiny structures (especially those on wheels), makes them relevant to all walks of life.

So, math showed there is an ideal size and spacing for tiny structures on a tongue.

A new method of imaging cells is allowing scientists to see tiny structures inside the «control centre» of the cell for the first time.

By relative comparison to ants we build tiny structures of little complexity.

They're not the only ones looking to nature to build tougher or stronger materials: A team of researchers recently designed tiny structures that were based on the architecture inside bones.

Tiny structures about the size of a fly's eye provide a new futuristic opportunity to study pediatric brain cancers.

Diedricksen also built a small series of tiny structures in his backyard.

Stuart Hameroff, an anesthesiologist who has spent many years studying brain functions, has collaborated with renowned Oxford University polymath Roger Penrose on a model that explains consciousness as the result of quantum processes occurring in tiny structures called microtubules in brain cells.

They were partly inspired by studies on the confinement of electrons in tiny structures within semiconductors called quantum wells, quantum wires and quantum dots («How to build better lasers», New Scientist, 11 January).

Building the catalysts begins with tiny structures made of platinum and nickel held in solution.

«Feathering the plasma nest: Tiny structures help prevent short circuits in plasma devices.»

Visualizing such tiny structures requires special instruments that often provide black - and - white representations of the positions of atoms.

«Our technology combines the properties of superconductivity with tiny structures that can only be seen with a microscope.

Given the challenge of observing tiny structures on distant stars, «the observations are fantastic,» says Mariano Méndez of the SRON National Institute for Space Research in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Researchers are also experimenting with brain «organoids,» tiny structured blobs of lab - grown tissue, to detail the molecular mechanisms that govern the folding and growth of the embryonic human brain.

So scientists investigated their 3D structure using x-ray nanotomography, a way of peering within tiny structures without destroying them.

As it turned out, he didn't need the slices, because the CT scans revealed two football - shaped lobes of fat contained within two sets of «lips» — tiny structures located in the nasal passage just below the blowhole.

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

Unlike DNA in nature, which replicates inside cells, these webs exist freely and suggest how self - replication might one day be an alternative to conventional fabrication for very tiny structures.

8 Utricularia have multiple tiny structures shaped like bladders, each with a single watertight, trapdoor - like entrance.

Anesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff believes tiny structures in our cells called microtubules could explain consciousness.

Nestled within an ancient chunk of Martian meteorite lay tiny structures that resembled fossilised bacteria.

Most budgies are green thanks to a yellow pigment, psittacofulvin, mixing with a blue hue created by light bouncing off tiny structures on the birds» feathers.

Matthew Shawkey at the University of Akron in Ohio and colleagues trained a scanning electron microscope on the fossil's feathers and found tiny structures called melanosomes, which contained dark pigment.

Cancer cells settle to the bottom of the well, where they selectively bind to the antibodies based on their surface markers (unlike other devices, the chip can also trap tiny structures called exosomes produced by cancers cells).

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The Homeless Homes Project, which features tiny structures built out of illegally dumped garbage and industrial waste are becoming more than an environmental stance or garbage art.

Update (February 15, 2018): Here are just some of the OVER EIGHTY (80 +) tiny structures currently registered for the 2018 (3rd Annual) Georgia Tiny House Festival.

By discovering a mechanism by which mitochondria — tiny structures inside cells often described as «power plants» — signal that they are damaged and need to be eliminated, the Pitt team has opened the door to potential research into cures for disorders such as Parkinson's disease that are believed to be caused by dysfunctional mitochondria in neurons.

While you might guess that I grew up to be an architect, in a sense, you'd be right, although I didn't design enormous structures made of concrete but tiny structures made of silicon.

Consideration of these facts will enable us to design energy harvesting devices out of such tiny structures,» explains Dr. Moumita Ghosh, leading scientist of this research from the University of Göttingen and former doctoral research scholar of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Pollen and others also are experimenting with brain «organoids,» tiny structured blobs of lab - grown tissue, to detail the molecular mechanisms that govern the folding and growth of the embryonic human brain.

Cells contain thousands of tiny structures called mitochondria, which generate energy and harbor their own DNA distinct from the cell's nucleus.

Some intriguing recent research supports his contention that microtubules — tiny structures in brain cells — can allow quantum phenomena to influence how neurons behave.

All owe their colour not to pigments, but to the way light reflects off tiny structures on their surface, says Beverley Glover at the University of Cambridge.

So honored that my Silver Bullet Tiny House won the best «Tiny Home» award out of 90 tiny structures on wheels at the Florida Tiny House Festival this month.

Aging begins at the cellular level, at the level of tiny structures called telomeres that protect the ends of chromosomes when cells divide.

If we can say: «The Wisdom that creates the whole cosmos, from its tiniest structures to its greatest, the Wisdom that enables the human mind to grasp and use these structures, has lived on earth to enable us to live in a divine way, now and for ever» - then we have a Gospel worth preaching, a truth to offer that is attractive by its beauty.

Crick was especially intrigued by a tiny structure in the forebrain that had been overlooked by other researchers.

Building nanoscale electronic components often involves growing the tiny structures in separate layers and transferring them onto a chip one by one.

A recently published study of a 30 - pound martian meteorite found in Antarctica suggests the presence of indigenous carbon - rich material, ancient water erosion, and a number of tiny structures that resemble the sort of features that we see rock - eating microbes leaving in basaltic glasses here on Earth.

These are tiny structures that operate without our conscious awareness.

«Mechanical behavior of tiny structures is affected by atomic defects.»

Matteo Boretto, the first author on this study, commented that «we were very excited to see that we could not only robustly grow and amplify endometrial tissue in a dish, but that the tiny structures were also able to reproduce normal responses of the endometrium to hormones: oestrogen makes the tissue thicken, progesterone then induces maturation including folding (see picture), and subsequent removal of both hormones mimics the cell shedding of the menstrual period.»

The exposure time was so short that the superfast motion of the molecules was frozen and we were able to capture a sharp image of the tiny structures.»

The tiny structure rotates and flaps about the pivots (labeled), producing an electric potential across the electrodes (labeled).