Sentences with phrase «tiny structures on»

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

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.

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.

Not exact matches

By the time I arrived, the concrete structure was filled with groups working on experiments, and the tens of thousands of tiny corals were back in their tanks outside.

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.

This structure differs depending on the scale, with tiny vertically aligned fibers building up into larger cylinders.

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.

That allows the printer to build in tiny cell wall — like structures on each scale that prevent fractures and other common problems.

We introduced a new concept that mechanics of these tiny crystalline ceramic structures are dependent on 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 technology builds on tiny structures known as silicon photonic wires, which are roughly a hundred times narrower than a typical human hair.

But both structures tend to break apart and recombine frequently, on the order of extremely tiny fractions of a second.

Because X-ray crystallography doesn't reveal the structure of a material on a per - atom basis, the technique can't identify tiny imperfections in materials such as the absence of a single atom.

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

«Our tests indicate we can operate on tiny structures such as blood vessels without damaging them,» said Thomas Looi, the project director for one of the partners that developed KidsArm at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) Centre for Image - Guided Innovation & Therapeutic Intervention (CIGITI) in Toronto, Canada.

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.

Today's electronic devices are powered by transistors, which are tiny silicon structures that rely on negatively charged electrons moving through the silicon, forming an electric current.

Laniakea, outlined in orange, is a single cosmic structure at least 500 million light - years wide; the Milky Way occupies just a tiny spot on its fringes.

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.

CUP photographs an object with a specialty camera lens, which takes the photons from the object on a journey through a tube - like structure to a marvelous tiny apparatus called a digital micromirror device (DMD), smaller than a dime though hosting about 1 million micromirrors, each one just seven by seven microns squared.

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.

Feathers, like most opaque objects, typically get their color from pigments in surface coatings (much as melanin colors skin) or from tiny surface structures that reflect light, such as those found on iridescent butterflies and beetles.

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.

As the structures are so tiny — each grain is only about the size of a virus — there is only one method with which the nanovortices can directly be observed while they are heated up and cooled down: «A special high - resolution electron microscope at the Ernst Ruska - Centre (ER - C) in Jülich is capable of making magnetic fields on the nanoscale holographically visible,» explains Almeida.

Rather than working blind, Morris can now take a close look at the tiny structures he works on, understand their behaviour and then make changes in a more rational and deliberate way.

But this physician - scientist's insights on health and sickness come from studying some of the smallest structures in the brain: tiny channels, no more than 10 nanometers across, in the walls of neurons.

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).

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.

New work on a tiny, uncelebrated structure inside the nucleus takes scientists another step closer to understanding how cloning works — and perhaps toward boosting its success rates.

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).

The technique could one day let us listen in on the tiniest living structures, including cells and viruses, according to the team.

The idea of being bitten by a nearly toothless modern frog or salamander sounds laughable, but their ancient ancestors had a full array of teeth, large fangs and thousands of tiny hook - like structures called denticles on the roofs of their mouths that would snare prey, according to new research by paleontologists at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM).

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

Similar structures have been proposed to power quantum computers and for use in other optical applications that require many tiny light sources integrated together on a single chip.

Our idea is to develop molecular structures (tiny machines) that would interact with specific proteins on the surfaces of these cells and stimulate them in response to light that enters the eye.

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

Breasts have no muscle so they rely on the skin and tiny internal structures called Cooper's ligaments to provide support.

The flared maxi skirt has a sheer structure that boasts of tiny sparkly stars on it.

Instead of crafting deft plot twists, the film relies on random behavior and a confusing structure designed to dole the story out in tiny bits over the entire running time.

The boy was dabbing wet sand onto the structure and talking, weaving a story about the tiny lead figures they were arranging on the walls, a dungeons - and - dragons sort of tale: wizards, warlocks, imprisoned queens, dark riders, heroic elves.

It provides large links, suitable for fingers to navigate on a hand - held device with a tiny screen, and structures the site so that the most important and useful information is easy for users to find.

When your cat grooms himself, tiny hook - like structures on his tongue catch loose and dead hair, which is then swallowed.

Takahiro Iwasaki builds exquisite, intricate, almost impossibly tiny structures, associated with industrial society and faith traditions on micro landscapes (of towels and other domestic fabrics) that seem one breath away from destruction.

Yulim's work is delicate, airy, almost whispered, made of light embroideries, inks on silk, everyday objects transformed into tiny jewels, small sculptural structures that refer to the concept of nest and shelter.

On view in the show are tiny iterations in silver and 18 - carat gold of the massive steel structures that Van de Bovenkamp builds.

The tiny kiln - like structure on top of the painting might be about change, and the bond between craft and art, but the statement does not comes across as heavy - handed.

Her tiny collage drawings on film and paper are graphically rendered and the complex images echo structures of dark and futuristic places akin to those in her large paintings.

Following this, the artist made a series of changing rooms based again on his Pico studio in Leo Castelli's galleries on Greene Street and 420 West Broadway in New York City from 1986 to 1987; a cardboard room filled with «three tiny blue paper cutout birds» 5 in an attic of the Fridericianum museum at documenta IX, in Kassel, Germany, in 1992; the transformative Red Room, from 2000 to 2007, an installation resembling a janitor's storeroom of everything - but - the - kitchen - sink, exclusively in orange - to - deep - red colors; and Transparent Room, 2010, a mysterious and immensely heavy translucent structure with clear items to house and clothe a person, including a sink, bed, shirts, and shoes.

Even steel structures can compress a bit under load, so when wooden modules are piled on top of each other the bottom one might end up being a tiny bit shorter than the top one.

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