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If we add water, what will happen is, this swellable material is going to absorb the water, the polymer chains will move apart from each other, and the entire material is going to become bigger.
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.
They can jump right into the pen and swab their pigs' noses and mouths with a little filter paper, place that little filter paper in a tiny tube, and mix it with some chemicals that will extract genetic material from their pigs' noses and mouths.
And without leaving their farms, they take a drop of that genetic material and put it into a little analyzer smaller than a shoebox, program it to detect DNA or RNA from the swine flu virus, and within one hour get back the results, visualize the results.
It's a law that regulates digital material and content.
Concrete is the most widely used construction material in the world.
Eventually, the resulting material grows strong enough to prop up buildings that climb hundreds of meters into the sky.
Fortunately, we’re already experimenting with ways this material could start fixing itself.
Material scientists have figured out how to heal cracks up to twice that size by adding hidden glue into the concrete mix.
Now, in the years that followed, Ottawa kept pushing this message, but at the same time, ordinary Canadians soon started to see the economic, the material benefits of multiculturalism all around them.
And even though the test identified gaps in our knowledge, I didn't know 25 percent of the material.
What's variable is when and how long a student actually has to work on something, and what's fixed is that they actually master the material.
They can get deeper mastery over the material.
To access this material, she had to learn to read and speak Ancient Greek, by studying secretly at night.
With that in mind, I encouraged people in my research group to partner with some clever material scientists, and all of us came together and brainstormed.
And after many trials and tribulations and years of endeavors, we were able to come up with this flexible electronic patch that was manufactured using the same processes that they use to build computer chips, except the electronics are transferred from a semiconductor wafer onto a flexible material that can interface with the human body.
Why were my neighborhood friends learning and reading material that I had done two to three years prior?
Because bras are famously made of flammable material.
How much weapons-grade nuclear material do you think it would take to level a city the size of San Francisco?
Material abundance has never eliminated perceived scarcity.
So it's a lot of material just stuck together with this attractive force.
Marriage material.
And what it tells you is that you can precisely tune their behavior just by making seemingly small changes to them, like adding or removing a handful of atoms, or twisting the material.
This "ideal solution" contains a material that's impossible to work with.
My dad printed up a sample reference card that we could use as marketing material.
Once thought to be little bins for unwanted cellular waste, it has been found that cells actually communicate by producing and absorbing these exosomes which contain surface receptors, proteins and other genetic material collected from their cell of origin.
Because they are clothed in the material of the mother cell, and contain a sample of its environment, they provide a genetic snapshot of that cell's health and its origin.
Here, smaller cars can go through the tunnel while larger trucks, carrying potentially hazardous material, are forced to take the detour route.
A good rule of thumb is that the Writers Guild of America registers about 50,000 new pieces of material every year, and most of them are screenplays.
It takes away any material you don't need and it actually garners flexure too.
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