Working at the scale of molecules, these micro-machines are taking their cues from bacteria and the way in which they find their way around the human body.
Researchers at the U.K.'s University of East Anglia now are working on a scale they call the "dwell time index" to calculate how much time a planet has orbited in a habitable zone, compared with the time it took life to evolve on Earth.
Two exciting solutions to the water problem are already working and ready to scale.
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Mr Ruijssenaars is working with large-scale 3D printing expert Enrico Dini on the project.
But whilst working on large-scale energy projects in developing countries, she also realized that the pressing needs of many poor individuals were still not being served.
"We are working on four small scale forest projects with local community groups to grow and plant over 1, 000, 000 trees to re-store the tree cover in an area now vulnerable to landslides, " he added.
"The empire offered opportunities to the Scots on a very significant scale and working on the plantations was a favoured choice for Scots seeking their fortunes in the late 18th and early 19th century, " she said.
Probably partly because of higher unemployment, which meant more insecurity, and made people feel the need to show their dedication to the job, and partly because lower tax rates and rising pay at the top of the scale made working harder more worthwhile.
Large companies searching for margin protection in services are branching out into analog businesses (people working with people) that scale poorly.
They are working on a full-scale prototype Mars Inflatable Greenhouse.
Just being the head of a network and working on such a big scale, there is a sense of sometimes you think about the marketing first, or external people are looking for things to monetize and exploit.
The basic yarn is that of the human hand working on an almost supernaturally tiny scale, performing miraculous feats of dexterity that result in what, at its best, seems like a universe in miniature.
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"Yet, we still face a great challenge - a unprecedented challenge in human history to working towards decommissioning the plant in such scale, " he said.
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Sustainable Harvest is a coffee importer working with 200, 000 small-scale farmers.
In medical care, any efficiencies of scale that come from hospitals working together are overwhelmed by the ability of those same hospitals to raise their prices.
Emily Kerr: Five years from now, Liga Masiva is working with thousands of organic small-scale farmers across Latin America, who grow everything from artisan vanilla, to cacao, to coffee.
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To guard against future outages, especially ones of this scale, Lazaridis said RIM is working with its hardware vendors to strengthen and audit its infrastructure.
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James Murdoch insisted before the Leveson Inquiry Tuesday that he knew little about the scale of phone hacking by people working for the News of the World, as he continued his fight to limit the damage the scandal does to him and his family's media empire.
Working from a one-to-twenty scale polystyrene model, the designer worked closely with an engineering team, including two traditional stone-carvers, in making a vast, jagged construction that, bolted to the walls and secured by steel cables, interweaved gracefully in and out of the shop windows, and loomed above the pavement.
Several large-scale botnet takedowns showcase the advantages of working groups and task forces.
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The Kickstarter project for dollhouses with working circuits, Roominate hit such an unanticipated scale so quickly that they had to do rapid redesigns to change the process, making the design more modular.
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Vibrant Research is working on snap-in-place fabrication that may scale to mass manufacturing volumes cheaply enough to deliver VC returns.
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The Association is currently working on the distribution of its productions on a national scale and aims to expand internationally.
We have three years of full scale programming experience under our belts, and we are currently working in 10, 000 rural villages.
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The Dong Xuan Center is an Asian market on an industrial scale, housed in a series of vast warehouses in the working class neighbourhood of Lichtenberg.
Sandbridge may never make it to the massive scale of Intel, but then, with all of 40 people working for him, Guenter Weinberger and his shop won't have to.
White House officials are hoping that the Senate will avoid a full-scale impeachment trial and they insist the president will go far in working out a censure deal to ensure that happens.
Now he's working with VIA Motors, which today introduced a line of electric vehicles of a rather different scale.
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