Sentences with phrase «with tiny insect»
So in this issue Hanson follows that through to a conclusion coming up with tiny insect - like robots with greater than human level intelligence living by the billions in skyscrapers and sort of doing their virtual work at the equivalent of pennies per day and what this leads to, there are two different ideas about what this kind of economic runaway advancement would ultimately lead to.
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Jugs with thin necks and tiny apertures have been found, thus preventing flies and insects from defiling drink and washing vessels.
A new dye industry finally arose in the late Middle Ages, allowing Catholic cardinals to cloak themselves in scarlet drawn from the shells of tiny kermes insects and tapestry makers to weave with vivid reds from dyewood trees native to India and Brazil.
«Bees with tiny transmitters on their backs show how disease harms the threatened insects.»
With tiny brains and force of numbers, social insects have achieved most of the things we consider quintessentially human — farming, warfare, air conditioning — and have taken over the world.
Tiny red fire ants in Argentina target fearsome caimans, with as many as one in four of the crocodilian's babies falling prey to insect attackers.
It was not until the polymerase chain reaction technique for amplifying nucleic acids was developed in the late - 1980s that it became possible to do anything with the tiny and fragmentary biochemical evidence from insects embedded in amber.
This effect is typical with light - scattering structures like the tiny scales that cover the insect's wings.
They form a functional complex with another protein, the so - called olfactory receptor co-receptor, which enables insects to smell the tiniest amounts of odor molecules in their environment very rapidly.
The result was Spinybot, which could ascend rough surfaces like trees and cement walls with the aid of microclaws tipped with tiny spines, a mechanism borrowed from insects like the cockroach.
The hairs are tipped by tiny sacs filled with a substance that sticks to any insect that alights on the leaf.
These symptoms are associated with a bacterium called «Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus,» referred to as CLas for short, which is spread from tree to tree by its tiny insect vector, the Asian citrus psyllid (Diaphorina citri).
Atwood and her team tested the idea in Canada and Costa Rica by temporarily removing fish and insect top predators from ponds, streams and tiny wet ecosystems associated with bromeliad plants.
Anyone who has tried to swat an insect can attest to how difficult it is to make contact with such elusive targets, but dragonflies, in spite of their tiny brains, have mastered the art.
Given the tiny insect from northeastern Gabon is the first record of its genus for West - Central Africa, the researchers Dr. Stefania Laudonia and Dr. Gennaro Viggiani, both affiliated with Italy's University of Naples Federico II, decided to celebrate it by assigning the species a name that refers to the continent.
Karin Nordström's group from the University of Uppsala, Sweden, and Flinders University, Australia, and Shannon Olsson's team from the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Bangalore, India, have long been interested in how insects, with their «teeny - tiny» brains can recognize objects such as flowers.
The Trichogrammatidae are a family of tiny wasps in the Chalcidoidea that include some of the smallest of all insects, with most species having adults less than 1 mm in length.
«How can such tiny insects, each less than 1 centimeter in size and equipped only with a simple brain, construct air - conditioned buildings up to 500 times their size?»
But anyone with a camera can go record tiny insects at work, wind blowing in trees, and any other element of nature to inspire similar not - particularly - profound feelings.
Insects, bark, soil, birds — complete with their tiny bones and feathers — whatever.
With a life span ranging from only a few weeks to a few months, these tiny insects can do a lot of damage.
Simply known as Ka («Mosquito») in Japan, the concept executive producer Akira Satō — who used to be the director and / or producer on most of Zoom's projects — cooked up to bring his team into the 21st century was sheer ingenuity: In the shoes of a tiny bloodsucking insect (yes, it actually wears shoes), players got to terrorize the typical (at least on the surface) Japanese suburban family Yamada by sneaking up to them, alleviating them from a few drops of their blood, and getting out with a full stomach.
Hockney's humor is apparent in works such as Crawling Insects, 1961, where scratched - out figures are accompanied by a trail of insects drawn in ink, as though, frustrated with his depictions of the human figure, the artist decided to draw tiny bugs iInsects, 1961, where scratched - out figures are accompanied by a trail of insects drawn in ink, as though, frustrated with his depictions of the human figure, the artist decided to draw tiny bugs iinsects drawn in ink, as though, frustrated with his depictions of the human figure, the artist decided to draw tiny bugs instead.
Whether it's an elephant painting with its trunk or a bird making a unique nest of tiny leftover antiques, animals can be responsible for things that stun us — and now insects too, as it turns out.
Covered here on our blog, his earth toned works give us a glimpse of the hidden landscape in our own backyard, bustling with tiny imaginary creatures based on real animals and insects.