Sentence examples for collected tiny from inspiring English sources

Hung and his colleagues collected tiny tissue samples from four well-preserved passenger pigeons held at museums around the world and used cutting-edge genetic technology to sequence the animals' DNA, as well as the DNA of a modern relative, the domestic pigeon.

Japan's Hayabusa spacecraft collected tiny dust grains from Itokawa in 2005 during a 1.25 billion-mile (2 billion kilometers) mission that took seven years to complete.

Thanks to new tools for data collection like microsensors capable of collecting tiny bits of data more accurately and efficiently than older instruments—and remote sensing, wherein satellite-borne devices record massive amounts of information about the earth's atmosphere and surface from thousands of miles away, the pool of pertinent data potentially available to researchers is growing every day.

Still, collecting tiny amounts of native mercury seems like a greater challenge than burning cinnabar ore.

DAVID ARMSTRONG collects tiny cartes de visites portraits, late-19th-century photographs printed on stiff, palm-sized cards that were presented as keepsakes to loved ones.

But the positive deviant parents were collecting tiny crabs or shrimps from rice paddies and giving them to the children along with the greens from sweet potatoes.

His wife explained that Daddy earned a living by collecting tiny crumbs of cake each time a slice of it was passed from one person to another.

Standards for containing radioactive materials were not as stringent in the 1940s, Dupré explained, so it was possible for lab notebooks to collect tiny drips or splashes of uranium solution.

THE adage "what you see is what you get" could be thought to ring true for a group of people who dedicate their lives to collecting tiny flickers of light from very distant objects.

Theatergoers who know and treasure "Menagerie" are likely to find themselves rapt during the long scene between Laura, who collects tiny glass animals as fragile as she is, and Jim.

With the company's technology designed to collect tiny blood samples, from fingertips rather than veins, and to analyze them on small, efficient machines millions of people around the world would be in a position to learn of diabetes or cancer diagnoses earlier than they would with current technology, opening new avenues for treatment that could save lives.