Sentences with phrase «tiny structures known»

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

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There is absolutely no evidence anywhere in the known univers, from the tiniest subatomic particle to the structure of the universe as a whole, that even remotely implies the faintest possibility thata deity exists.

Costa and Jin implanted tiny electrodes in each mouse's brain to record the activity of neurons within the striatum, a structure deep in the brain known to be involved in motor commands.

Tiny, mirrorlike structures known as distributed Bragg reflectors reflect this fluorescent light as well as all the other light the photonic crystal allows to pass through.

Graptolites, whose name means written in rock, were tiny animals that lived in colonies of little cuplike structures known as theca.

Tiny biodegradable rod - like structures made from silica, known as mesoporous silica rods (MSRs), can be loaded with biological and chemical drug components and then delivered by needle just underneath the skin.

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.

The tiny hairlike structures that adorn many cells were known to play key roles in smell, hearing, and sight, and a study now shows that they help us detect heat, vibrations, and other touch - based sensations as well.

In his original work, Zhang was able to enlist a complex of molecules known as photosystem - I (PS - I), the tiny structures within plant cells that carry out photosynthesis.

These attach to tiny physical structures on the outside of a virus known as receptors.

When tiny crystals known as nanoparticles assemble into complex, highly branched structures they gain unique properties that can be used to channel light, promote chemical reactions or store energy.

We've seen a few slick trailers, and we know the structure was inspired by Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Summer Vacation, but that's about it.

Glomerulonephritis, also known as glomerular nephritis (GN), is a specific type of renal (kidney) disease characterized by inflammation of the glomeruli, which are the tiny structures in the kidneys that act as filters for the blood.

You can create conceptual 3D tiny house models all day long, but until they exist and function as both a solid structure and a full - time home in the real world, there's no way to know how well a design will actually work.

Photos of our tiny house through the chainlink fence made it obvious that they knew the structure was on wheels.