"One's thoughts wander occasionally to pleasanter scenes and places, but the necessity to keep the course, or some hitch in the surface, quickly brings them back".
Polymer patches hitched to the surfaces of immune cells can transport a variety of cargo.
The hitch--it surfaces, unfortunately early--is that, though Gibson knows how to write mighty fine dialogue and often does, she has it spewing from two thoroughly unappealing, unengaging central characters.
By hitching a ride on a piece of floating plastic, they can stay near the surface without effort.Where plants abound, herbivores will not be far behind.
Walsh and Piccard's ascent back to the surface went without a hitch.
Drugs encapsulated in new MIT nanoparticles can hitch a ride to tumors on the surface of immune-system cells.
Meanwhile sugar molecules on the egg's surface, known as SLeX, act as "hitching posts" (discovered in 2011 by Poh-Choo Pang from Imperial College and Philip Chiu from the University of Hong Kong).
"Why not?" Martello countered as he tied on a hitch tube, which wakes as it skitters across the surface.
Their waders often have felt on the boot bottoms for extra traction, and when the felt gets wet, it's the ideal surface for microscopic particles of didymo to hitch a ride.
Some fragments get carried off by surface currents, others sink and can accidentally hitch a ride on another current -- the great oceanic conveyor belt.
NASA wants to learn how bacteria that hitch a ride on spacecraft might behave on Mars, whose surface conditions are similar to Earth's upper atmosphere.
