Sentences with phrase «travels along the surface»

As their name suggests, surface waves travel along the surface of the Earth.

Topological insulators preserve the direction of an electron spin as it travels along the surface, allowing a spin to carry bits of information in a future quantum network.

Not exact matches

Known as «surface plasmons,» these waves can be excited by light, travel along the metal, and then reemit the light elsewhere.

Forces felt by the fingers as they travel along a flat surface can lead to the illusion that the surface actually contains bumps.

They found that besides traveling in the bloodstream, melanoma cells could also move along the abluminal, or outside, surface of blood vessels by way of angiotropism, a biological interaction between the cancer cells and the blood vessel cells.

To push further, several groups are manipulating ripples called surface acoustic waves (SAWs), which travel along a material's surface.

A network of seismometers around the volcano indicated that the ground started shaking about an hour after the Sumatran quake — due to surface waves traveling along Earth's crust.

The sensation of touch starts in the peripheral nervous system — in receptors at the surface of the skin — and travels along nerves that connect into the central nervous system.

Along with his expanding team in the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense - pyrokinetic girlfriend Liz (Selma Blair), aquatic empath Abe (Doug Jones) and protoplasmic mystic Johann - the BPRD will travel between the surface strata and the unseen magical one, where creatures of fantasy become corporeal.

The road they're travelling along is the sort we in the UK often fantasise about, smoothly (but by no means flawlessly) surfaced and curling through a sea of gorse.

Standard all - wheel drive and a surfeit of power regardless of the engine option allows the Continental to travel along at serious speeds over most road surfaces.

This ensures they stay level at all times, even when travelling flat out along uneven road surfaces You can brake with confidence through turns or on winding roads thanks to the Dynamic Stability control.

Earlier this week, a video surfaced of animal control officers, along with the shelter director of the Town of Hempstead (NY) clowning around, and joking around while about to «euthanize» a kitten even to the point of chanting «kill the kitty, kill the kitty» as the frightened kitten was pulled from its traveling kennel with a catch pole.

The tree - ring pencil - lined skin of Chadsey's men, an allusion both to Gustave Doré's copperplate etchings of Dante's Inferno and to presidential portraits on US currency, lead our eyes to travel along the subjects» surfaces, rendering the body, itself, as an evolving physical narrative.

Branded with farm and sponsorship information along with shipping labels — these pieces of cardboard provide the history of their travel on their surfaces.

I have been travelling around the work South East Asia - Vietnam, Thailand, Japan and more, collecting Surface Markers along the way.

Splintered shapes and whiplash lines of force pick up density and speed as your eye travels across the surface, but unexpected detours crop up along the way.

Anyway, could the presence of these eddy swirls (and the sea - surface temperature garbling that goes along with them) have an impact on the sea - surface temperature record by ships traveling unbeknownst through them over the last 50 - 100 years?

It could very well be that general warming along with high sea - surface temperatures have lengthened the tropical storm season, making it more likely that a Sandy could form, travel so far north, and have an opportunity to interact with a deep jet - stream trough associated with the strong block, which is steering it westward into the mid-Atlantic.

The descended air then travels toward the equator along the surface, replacing the air that rose from the equatorial zone, closing the loop of the Hadley cell.

It consists of cold, deepwater currents starting near the poles and traveling long distances along the bottom of the ocean before surfacing again, with important consequences for the climate.

Now you can travel along under the waves and surface again, just like a dolphin.