Uniquely, it hardly expands or contracts with changes in the temperature - a property that comes in very handy in precision instruments and clocks, whose workings can be interfered with by the "thermal expansion" of other lowlier metals.
A breakthrough came in 1996 with the arrival of protease inhibitors, whose workings are clearly explained in a remarkable animated segment.
Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. have been incensed over leaked information appearing in media reports, including what witnesses said in front of the grand jury, whose workings are supposed to be confidential.
The plea by David Amir Makov, 41, in Federal District Court in Manhattan is expected to bolster the government's investigation of Deutsche Bank over its work with questionable shelters, including one known as Blips, whose workings Mr. Makov described in detail yesterday.
Brain researchers have found that the thrill gamblers feel involves the release of the same chemicals whose workings go awry in patients with Parkinson's disease.
Kevin Smith is a Catholic boy shocked by sex, particularly by female sexuality, whose workings are depicted in his movies as a wonderland deserving both astonishment and respect.
It's a polytheistic culture of faith, a belief in machines and bureaucrats and corporations whose workings and relationships most don't understand, and don't want to.
Descriptions of the brain as a data-processing center whose workings could be depicted in flow charts filled scientific journals.
But he was widely credited with focusing the popular imagination on the Mayan calendar — a complex astronomical and mathematical system whose workings were formerly the province of academics — and in particular on 2012 as the year in which something very big and quite possibly unwelcome might happen.
The only other machine we know of that operates in the same way is sitting between your ears right now – a machine whose workings novelists are still trying to figure out after more than 400 years.
