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And the good-for-nothings become good-for-disappearing into whatever toxic waste, chemical sludge shithole they crawled out of.
Complex life like us derives our energy from the sun, but life deep underground can get its energy from things like chemical reactions.
However, all life on Earth derives its nourishment from only six chemical elements, and these elements can be found on any planetary body in our solar system.
What you would see are thousands and thousands of kinds of biomolecules, little nanoscale machines organized in complex, 3D patterns, and together they mediate those electrical pulses, those chemical exchanges that allow neurons to work together to generate things like thoughts and feelings and so forth.
It turns out, you can get the building blocks, monomers, as they're called, and if you let them go into the brain and then trigger the chemical reactions, you can get them to form those long chains, right there inside the brain tissue.
We have to treat this specimen with a chemical to kind of loosen up all the molecules from each other, and then, when we add water, that swellable material is going to start absorbing the water, the polymer chains will move apart, but now, the biomolecules will come along for the ride.
Instead, it’s our sensory experience of a chemical reaction called combustion.
All of these are sensory clues that a chemical reaction is taking place.
When water gets added to this mix, the cement forms a paste and coats the aggregates, quickly hardening through a chemical reaction called hydration.
Or what if that very same robotic arm could refuel the propellant tank on a spacecraft that relies on chemical propulsion just like you or I would refuel the fuel tanks on our cars?
And two, they both increase levels of serotonin, which is a chemical signal in the brain, or a neurotransmitter.
I remember one of the concerts, I was onstage, I lean into the audience and the last thing I see is a young brown face, and the next thing I know is some sort of chemical is thrown in my eyes and I remember I couldn't really see and my eyes were watering but I kept singing anyway.
It's a little bit like a chemical fuel cell, which you might have come across in school, or you might've seen in the news.
Leo, very sad about this impending break up, does a little more research about the hurricane and discovers that in its path across the Atlantic, it will pass over a long-dormant, though now active volcano that will spew toxic ash into its eye that will presumably be whipped into some sort of chemical weapon that will destroy the world.
In America, our death traditions have come to be chemical embalming, followed by burial at your local cemetery, or, more recently, cremation.
Next, the industry will sanitize your body through embalming: the chemical preservation of the dead.
So when chemical antibiotics emerged in the 1940s, they completely changed the game.
I am interested in how genes are marked by a chemical mark during embryogenesis, during the time we're in the womb of our mothers, and decide which gene will be expressed in what tissue.
We can now map those chemical marks, which we call methylation marks, on DNA at a single nucleotide resolution.
This reward system is a series of electrical and chemical pathways across several different regions of the brain.
The major currency of our reward system is dopamine, an important chemical or neurotransmitter.
For marine mammals that live underwater, where chemical cues and light transmit poorly, sound is the sense by which they see.
A molecule is the smallest unit of any chemical compound.
When carbon dioxide dissolves in seawater, it undergoes a number of chemical reactions.
And as you get a little bit closer, it starts looking like lots of pipes, like maybe a chemical plant, or a refinery, or maybe a hellish freeway interchange.
Last year, every minute, 24 more people were displaced from their homes by conflict, violence and persecution: another chemical weapon attack in Syria, the Taliban on the rampage in Afghanistan, girls driven from their school in northeast Nigeria by Boko Haram.
It turns out they also act as sensitive chemical sensors in many other parts of the body.
Rather, after you drink your morning coffee, your liver might use an olfactory receptor to chemically detect the change in concentration of a chemical floating through your bloodstream.
Many cell types and tissues in the body use chemical sensors, or chemosensors, to keep track of the concentration of hormones, metabolites and other molecules, and some of these chemosensors are olfactory receptors.
If you are a pancreas or a kidney and you need a specialized chemical sensor that will allow you to keep track of a specific molecule, why reinvent the wheel?
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