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Aspirin acts like a spine from a porcupine.
And, as a bonus, understanding that light acts like a wave leads naturally to an explanation of what color is and why that pencil looks yellow.
To see those traces, our detector, with 150 million sensors, acts like a really massive 3-D camera, taking a picture of each collision event - that's up to 14 millions times per second.
It also acts to transport heat across the equator, and the ocean is full of nutrients and it controls primary productivity.
This subsystem acts like the eyes and ears and mouth and hands of the computer.
But it also acts like a buffer to keep the CPU from being overwhelmed by distractions.
We use something called a clef, a weird-looking figure placed at the beginning of the staff, which acts like a reference point, telling you that a particular line or space corresponds to a specific note on your instrument.
Commandeering civilian planes and using them as weapons, dropping atomic bombs, the use of gas chambers or poisonous gas in conflict, all of these actions, if committed, constitute acts of war and war crimes under customary international law and the Hague conventions.
Perhaps the Earth's atmosphere acts like a giant lens, magnifying the moon as it rises and sets.
So obviously, this is creating in societies that are all multiethnic, multi-religious, multicultural, this is creating a situation in which, really, it is much easier for the propaganda of these terrorist organizations to be effective in recruiting people for terror acts within the countries where these kinds of sentences are expressed.
Light is electromagnetic radiation that acts like both a wave and a particle.
This dark energy doesn't behave like any other substance we know at all and acts more like anti-gravity force.
The jury may still be out as to whether it's fair to call these acts of creation creative.
First, scientists dissolve boiled egg whites in water with a chemical called urea, a small molecule that acts as a lubricant, coating the proteins' long strands and making it easier for them to glide past each other.
Each of these is stored in a memory cell that can switch between two states for two possible values, 0 and 1. Files and programs consist of millions of these bits, all processed in the central processing unit, or CPU, that acts as the computer's brain.
But for major surgeries where you need to be unconscious, you'll want something that acts on the entire nervous system, including the brain.
Negative charge builds up and acts like a log jam, keeping the neuron from transmitting electrical signals.
Now, coming back to LIGO, Scott likes to say that LIGO acts like an ear more than it does like an eye.
The Senate acts as both judge and jury, conducting the trial and deliberating after hearing all the arguments.
It acts for hours, giving enough time to silence and block those survival genes.
Basically, there's a protein that acts like a scissors and cuts the DNA, and there's an RNA molecule that directs the scissors to any point on the genome you want.
But what if it was coordinated with the dozens of other acts of nonviolent resistance that have taken place against ISIS?
We plan to break ground on this memorial later this year, and it will be a place to finally speak of the unspeakable acts that have scarred this nation.
One of the things that suggests to me is not only that Michelangelo really did see the sculpture in the blocks of stone, but that any creature, any being, any alien that is able to do perceptual acts of that sort is also able to create because it's exactly the same machinery that's used in both cases.
This is reflected in Beckett’s unique approach to genre in Waiting for Godot, which he branded “a tragicomedy in two acts."
Every small entrepreneurial company naturally thinks and acts biologically.
There's very little room in the cranial vault, only a few millimeters, and it's filled entirely with cerebral spinal fluid, which acts as a protective layer.
Answering this question requires exploring the roots of extraordinary acts of altruism, and what might make people who engage in such acts different than other people.
So together, what these data suggest is the existence of something like a caring continuum in the world that's anchored at the one end by people who are highly psychopathic, and at the other by people who are very compassionate and driven to acts of extreme altruism.
Reclaiming yourself can be one of the most gorgeous acts of self-love and can look like a million different things, from hairstyles to tattoos to body contouring to hormones to surgery and yes, even weight loss.
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