Dr. Markus Zahn, a professor of electrical engineering, and his student Cory Lorenz were investigating the behavior of weird materials known as ferrofluids, which consist of tiny magnetic particles floating in a fluid like water or oil.
Its purpose is to determine the positions that various solids will assume when floating in a fluid, according to their form and the variation in their specific gravities.
We're not strangers to the feeling that, for much of our lives, we might just as well be brains-in-vats, floating in an amniotic fluid of simulations.
Your brain is a gelatinous mass floating in a pool of cerebrospinal fluid inside your skull.
The surgery on the fetus has not begun; it remains hidden from view, enclosed in the womb and floating in a sea of amniotic fluid.
The dura is thin like cloth, so I scored and lifted it, but didn't cut the surface of the brain underneath, which is floating in a thin layer of brain fluid.
As shown in Figure 3A, klotho knockdown failed to suppress the Clr phenotype, characterized by both intestine and gonad floating in an enlarged fluid-filled pseudocoelomic cavity.
A defect floating in a pool of barium (Fig. 3).
An ultrasonography of the thorax revealed a moderate pleural effusion, irregularly thickened parietal pleura, and a mixed echogenic mobile structure of around 2 cm in diameter, floating in the pleural fluid of the left hemithorax close to the pericardium.
Anatomically, choroid plexus tissue is floating in the cerebrospinal fluid of the lateral, third, and fourth ventricles.
