Sentences with phrase «to dust»

Gold dust.

Each neural dust mote possesses a piezoelectric crystal that can convert mechanical power from ultrasonic pulses broadcast from outside the body into electrical power.

If this were an old Disney movie made while Walt was at the controls, this would be the moment in the story when a little bit of magic would appear — perhaps in the form of a fairy godmother or some pixie dust — to make things right.

Wireless powered implants, each smaller than a grain of rice, could serve as «neural dust» that can one day scan and stimulate brain cells.

The iPhone 8 line comes in silver, space grey, and gold finishes, and feature water - and dust - resistant designs.

In the long run, the scientists want neural dust motes in the brain and spinal cord.

To be a true adult, you need to be able to cope with the reality that accomplishing anything worthwhile means risking failure, and that achievement almost always involves repeatedly stumbling and repeatedly dusting yourself off and getting back up again.

«I was really skeptical of this concept at first, since it was so out of the box,» says Doug Weber, a bioengineer and neuroscientist at DARPA, who helped fund the neural dust research.

The explosion at the plant in Pripyat, Ukraine, blasted radioactive gas and dust into the air, and winds carried it across central and southern Europe.

One challenge that neural dust targeting the central nervous system faces is how ultrasound does not pass well through bone, Weber says.

But those who own a jet in its entirety face another problem: Wholly owned jets spend most of their time in the hangar gathering dust — and losing value.

It's true that space is a vacuum, but it's an imperfect vacuum because it contains a low density of particles like clouds of interstellar dust, space plasma, and cosmic rays.

While the effects of a possible trade war are still just in the realm of possibilities and analysts are waiting for all the rhetoric dust to settle, if trade and economic growth were to weaken, they could affect the pace of oil demand growth.

Obviously, ESPN isn't going to crumble into dust just because Facebook introduces a new sports feature.

You couldn't swim in the rivers, because they contained dust and run off from radiation - infused water.

In experiments with rats, the researchers found that neural dust motes implanted in nerve and muscle fibers in the leg could record and transmit electrical data.

Electronics in the neural dust motes can alter the pulses that get scattered outward, and so can wirelessly transmit data they gathered.

«It sounds like the pixie dust is starting to wear off.»

They were told it was a terrible time to start a business, and they should wait for the dust to settle, but they pushed forward.

Experiments so far with neural dust motes have only involved the peripheral nervous system, which serves the limbs and organs, and not the central nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.

The dust factor.

Ultimately, the researchers want to shrink neural dust motes down to just 50 microns wide, or roughly half the average width of a human hair.

«If they reduced their promotional presence, they stood to lose sales to lower - priced competitors and store brands — so they doubled down hoping to create brand loyalty once the economic dust settles.»

For gifts, a standard plaque that hangs on a wall or crystal that collects dust in the china cabinet is not ideal.

HINDMAN, Ky. (AP)-- A Kentucky jury has awarded two former coal miners who filed a civil lawsuit claiming defective dust masks led to their debilitating black - lung disease $ 67.5 million in damages.

By the time the dust settles, the model and the companies that lead that industry will likely be radically different than what we see today.

The dust has hardly settled on abandoned Juicero machines, yet already the world has moved on to the latest tech lifestyle outrage: unfiltered, untreated, unsterilized spring water, sold at upwards of $ 20 a gallon.

So, if you've been wondering how to get your website to rank well in the search engines and have been wondering what the secret sauce is, you can forget about some mystical equation that perfectly balances links, keyword density, and unicorn dust.

The fine dust that would normally harm us, is collected together with the ions and stored inside of the tower.

The dust - up suggests that the trade dispute won't be resolved quickly, despite Trump's optimistic tweets and Xi's conciliatory address to a regional economic forum Tuesday.

Does that mean it's time to brace for «the singularity» — the hypothesized moment when superintelligent machines start improving themselves without human involvement, triggering a runaway cycle that leaves lowly humans ever further in the dust, with terrifying consequences?

«My advice would be to put them on a revolving door,» he says, «just to knock the dust off them, and to use as an incentive for the issuer not to close it underneath you.»

These are some of the most basic yet overlooked ways to stay on top of things while your office chair collects dust without you.

Make contact far enough in advance because most of the time spots get filled up pretty quickly and you will be lying dead in the dust.

After the dust settled from the merger, the startup bug bit me hard, and I was ready to leave Salesforce Pardot to start my next big adventure.

The top of the elevator car was covered in dust — «there weren't even footprints in the dust,» he says.

When the dust cleared, they checked the neurons of the highest layer and found, sure enough, that one of them responded powerfully to images of cats.

Your entire family will breathe easily in a dust - free, allergen - free home.

Nuclear explosions loft this material high into the atmosphere as dust -, salt -, and sand - size particles, and it can take up to 15 minutes to fall to the ground.

Learn to calculate ROI in seven steps — increasing your chances of landing an investor and dusting the competition.

Fallout is a mess of bomb material, soil, and debris that is vaporized, made radioactive, and sprinkled as dust and ash across the landscape by prevailing winds.

It can be tempting to focus solely on your business strategy and leave culture in the dust.

Whether reminding us that we are but specks of dust in a big, fat world or the joy of growing old, this collection of poems is a wonderful break from the usual information and communication of daily life.

Don't leave it on a metaphorical shelf gathering dust.

Goggles, boots and dust masks are essential gear when dancing in the frequent sandstorms.

An important discovery was that of water clusters and charged dust particles in plumes at Enceladus, helping us to understand that it has a subsurface ocean.

«Get in,» he says to this visitor from Vancouver, pointing to a black Ford Mustang with a film of dust on the hood.

Upon their re-entry into the planet's atmosphere (and, you know, the country), Aldrin and company had to declare their cargo — moon rock and moon dust samples — and confirm that none of them had any bouts of illness while en route.

«This market would leave us in the dust,» says Narodick.

We brought back moon rocks & moon dust samples.