While the idea that multiple volcanic events took place in the early Jurassic isn't new, this study stands out for assigning dates to these pulses of volcanic activity, by dating microscopic crystals ...

Microscopic crystals could soon be zipping drugs around your body, taking them to diseased organs. In the past, this was thought to be impossible - the crystals, which have special magnetic ...

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A UCLA study shows for the first time how microscopic crystals form sound and gravity sensors inside the inner ear. Located at the ends of cilia — tiny cellular hairs in the ear that move and ...

A new University of Maryland study has revealed a coordinated dance of microscopic particles—breaking ... driving the ...

Faculty of Science has successfully unraveled the chemical reaction responsible for propelling microscopic crystals to leap distances up to hundreds of times their own size when they are exposed ...

Crystals seem nothing like flowers ... when seen through an electron microscope, resemble blooming irises, violets, and carnations. The hair-width nanocrystals, which graced a recent cover ...

Under the microscope, strong-swimming swamp bacteria spontaneously organize into crystals. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2015 / 04 / 150406165145.htm ...

They're actually microscopic crystal structures many times smaller than the width of a human hair. Minerals can naturally assemble into impressive shapes, even at very tiny scales, and Noorduin's ...

Notes on Microscopic Crystals included in some Minerals. By Isaac Lea. From the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Read February 16 and May 11, 1869.