Those are ivory beads.

They're Buddhist prayer beads.

It's a high strength polymer.

And that's a plastic polymer.

Yes. But Buddhist prayer beads.

Maybe a little smaller, like beads.

The lines around the edges are a polymer.

Beads of sweat stood on his forehead.

Genetic engineering coupled with polymer physiotechnology coupled with xenotransplantation.

There were beads of sweat on his forehead.

Those prayer beads, where did you get them?

There are approximately 3,500 ivory beads in this burial.

Did you find any rosary beads on the body?

The book itself is a polymer. It is not a tree.

And evidence for first design comes 75,000 years old beads.

This polymer is amazing because it's present in so many different organisms.

The gold spangles and beads stress the luxury of the item.

'Straight up and down like a curtain of small, clear beads.

The hooded clouds, like friars, tell their beads in drops of rain.

I spent a lot of time counting beads and things like that.

And we've just recently demonstrated this by putting extract of hydrocarbons on little glass beads, and dropping the beads gently down into the nest entrance at the right rate.

It's a layered structure that's mineral and then polymer, and it makes it very, very tough.

You had a string of Buddhist prayer beads with you, and you never did say why.

By simply moving beads that each had place value an abacus was a highly efficient way to compute.

Moreover, we are producing not only fiber but film, sponge, gel, and nano fiber as well by using this polymer.

The little boy has 4,500 beads, so 1,000 more than the adult male, and the little girl has over 5,000.

This is a sculpture made from a million yards of wire and 150,000 glass beads the size of a golf ball.

We've come a long way, but now we have to make this polymer into fiber in order to give it a practical use.

lots and lots of ultraviolet radiation and the melanin this wonderful, complex, ancient polymer compound in our skin served as a superb natural sunscreen.

And with so much polymer, what we really need is technical nutrition, and to use something as elegant as a tree imagine this design assignment

First, the long thread of DNA wraps around proteins clustered into little beads called nucleosomes, which end up looking like a long, beaded necklace.

Those stones have been smuggled as three prayer beads of 33 stones each through Arabia into Andalusia in Spain, where they're safe for 200 years.

We give it all the computing power it needs a 1.5 gigahertz Pentium M chip, two FireWire cameras, rate gyros, accelerometers, four force sensors on the foot, lithium polymer batteries.

It actually takes things we would consider waste things like seed husks or woody biomass and can transform them into a chitinous polymer, which you can form into almost any shape.

Probably the most famous of optical cluster catalogs is the Abell Catalog, which was initially compile by George Abell from first Polymer sky surveys, simply looking at the graphic plates with a magnifier.

And he actually took the mammoth ivory and practiced until he could get quite good at making the beads, and even when he was good at it, it took an hour per bead.

There are also already within the ice narrow oblong perpendicular bubbles about half an inch long, sharp cones with the apex upward or oftener, if the ice is quite fresh, minute spherical bubbles one directly above another, like a string of beads.

He altered this mouse so that it was genetically engineered to have skin that was less immunoreactive to human skin, put a polymer scaffolding of an ear under it and created an ear that could then be taken off the mouse and transplanted onto a human being.

And I want you to really watch closely these little white dots on the screen, because, over the five day period, what they do is extend out and through this material, using the energy that's contained in these seed husks to build this chitinous polymer matrix.

And the effect of this is that as the droplets start to form on the bumps, they stay in tight, spherical beads, which means they're much more mobile than they would be if it was just a film of water over the whole beetle's shell.

It goes up, and these microscopic glass beads are formed, instantly, and they're hardened by the time they fall down back to the surface of the Moon they have these beautiful colored glass spheres and these are actually microscopic, you need a microscope to see this.

I was going to say up into the air, but there is no air goes sort of up, and these microscopic glass beads are formed instantly, and they harden, and by the time they fall down back to the surface of the Moon, they have these beautiful colored glass spherules.

And when it's in this form, if I combine it with a polymer and affix it to your window when it's in its colored state, it will reflect away all heat and light, and when it's in its bleached state it will let all the light and heat through and any combination in between.

So, what we're seeing here then is potentially the fact that they're seeing death as being a state that's different than life, and yet worth recognizing and worth paying attention to, and worth acknowledging, and, frankly, worth the sheer amount of effort of making all those beads only to bury them in the ground and cover them up.