The Chemistry and Camera instrument, seen above before a recent test firing at Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico, USES a pulsed laser beam to vaporize a pinhead-size piece of material.

图片上是这件化学分析及摄像仪器在新墨西哥州洛斯阿拉莫斯国家实验室进行点火测试前拍摄的。

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This tiny piece of sky, the size of a pinhead held at arm's length.

这一小块天空，正如一臂之遥处的针头大小。

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Goodfellow's unit has so miniaturized the mass screening of such compounds that machines now replicate the countless experiments in pinhead-size droplets--1, 536 tiny wells on envelope-size plates--a process that formerly took humans untold man-hours.

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In 2009 and 2010 it failed to find a single deserving candidate, and in 2011 it did so only by venturing offshore to award it to Pedro Pires, the outgoing president of the pinhead-size islands of Cape Verde.

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