These relatively simple and inexpensive measures offer strategies to avoid a microscopic but nasty adversary.
In the filaments, the same cross-sectional pattern of holes is preserved, but on a microscopic scale.
Nowadays AMSC starts by engraving a microscopic pattern onto a sheet of nickel-based metal, to align the crystals.
Quake figured what worked for toilets might suffice on a microscopic scale.
Indeed, the memory in an Apple iPod alone, not long ago worth millions, is today worth a microscopic fraction of what it once was.
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Given its immediacy and pervasiveness, mobile is even more powerful than the Web in giving us a microscopic view into how we live and work.
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At the point at which the embryos are destroyed, a few days' development has taken place since fertilisation and they are a microscopic clump of cells.
"She balanced explosions and humanity, imperiousness with warmth, an arena-ready sense of scale with a microscopic approach to the details of her vocals, " wrote Jon Caramanica.
It's been a battle of epic proportions over a microscopic piece of plastic, but the warring sides appear to be working together to find a compromise.
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But the car has head-turning good looks, decent practicality thanks to its large hatch, and storage space where there is a microscopic back seat in other markets.
Cell biology researcher Michael Davidson stumbled upon this little-known trend a decade ago, when he discovered a microscopic etching of Waldo (of Where's Waldo fame) while photographing a Hewlett-Packard chip.
It looked for life in the form of microbial life by looking at respiration products, by looking at how a microscopic form of life would ingest atmospheric gas and exhale gases.
But the University of Chicago palaeontologist argues in his paper that competitive sparring and self-defence were more likely roles for the fangs, based on a microscopic examination of teeth from Pegomastax and its kin.
That's the goal at a shop at Harvard, where Daniel Branton, a biophysicist, and his colleagues hope to design a better detector by passing DNA--a letter at a time--through a microscopic "nanopore" in a silicon membrane.
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: A laser attack on a lymph node provides the drama behind the top-rated video in Nikon's 2012 Small World in Motion competition, which celebrates time-lapse movies made on a microscopic scale.
Dr Cirac and Dr Romero-Isart therefore propose putting the virus inside a microscopic cavity and cooling it down to its state of lowest energy (ground state, in physics parlance) using a piece of apparatus known as a laser trap.
That is the goal at a shop a few miles down the road from U.S. Genomics, at Harvard, where biophysicist Daniel Branton and colleagues hope to design a better detector by passing DNA, one letter at a time, through a microscopic "nanopore" in a silicon membrane.
Columbia University's Richard Axel, whose work on mapping the genes and receptors of our sense of smell garnered the 2004 Nobel prize for physiology, said the kinds of experiments revealed this week would not resolve the debate - only a microscopic look at the receptors in the nose would finally show what is at work.
The court heard four purple polyester fibres had been found in the Land Rover which bore a "microscopic resemblance" to April's coat.
Atlantis is also carrying up to a million microscopic worms as part of an experiment to help scientists understand why human muscles waste away in zero gravity.
Macha is a suspension of microscopic tea particles, which gave him the idea of manufacturing using a suspension of particles in water, he says.
The group infused a plastic-like polymer with microscopic capsules containing a liquid healing agent.
If there is life on such a planet, microscopic forms of it will probably live deep inside rocks, as they do on earth.
In their experiments, the two Wisconsin researchers use a solution of the nickel isotope to fill sets of microscopic channels in a silicon plate.
The latest evolution in data security leaves numbers behind and returns to the physical world: A plastic token filled with microscopic glass spheres, and it looks like a much harder nut to crack than the codes of the past.
The device instructs a patient to breathe at the correct speed, and a microprocessor-controlled motor squeezes the desired dose of insulin through microscopic holes on a mouthpiece, generating a fine aerosol.
Each telescope has a mirror just 10cm across, yet working together they detected the microscopic dimming caused by a planet getting in the way of the distant star.
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Even a well-equipped hacker can't get microscopic glass shards to fall into a prearranged pattern, says Ravikanth Pappu , a co-inventor of the technology.
At the heart of the technology is a micro-array consisting of thousands of microscopic spots of different sections of DNA deposited on a glass or silicon surface.
The embryo defenders say each of these microscopic balls is a human life that shouldn't be wasted.
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