Sentences with phrase «few centimeters»

Thorpe and her colleagues report in a paper published online today by Science that the orangutans reared up on two legs mostly as they reached for fruit while perching on one or more smaller branches totaling four or fewer centimeters in diameter.

If you're few centimeters shorter, girl you're gonna rock it!

Watson and Olovnikov noted that the polymerase enzymes that normally replicate DNA every time a cell divides are not able to copy the chromosomes all the way to the very tip, leaving a small region at the end of each telomere uncopied, much like a tape recorder can not play the last few centimeters of tape in a cassette.

Katherine de Kleer followed up with a summary of observations using the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) observatory that probes the top few centimeters of the Galilean moon surfaces [Abstract 2567].

I wanted her and my husband in the delivery room and the concensus is the last few centimeters happen quickly.

When activated by a reader a few centimeters (inches) away, a small amount of data flows between the two devices via electromagnetic waves.

Coherent Navigation's High Integrity GPS system is supposedly so granular that it can provide accurate location information to within a few centimeters.

The African aid's epidemic is just God's way of clearing away the sinners to them, the prejudged, the cursed, the afflicted, the gays, all just a problem of human waste to them, and yet they fight tooth and nail to save a few centimeters of cell's on some person they don't knows uterine wall.

Just 1 foot to the left with Ox's shot, and a few centimeters lower with Ramirez's or whoever it was» header, and with the same effort and all the song and dance, it could have been Chelski 1 — Arsenal 0.

That's how agonizingly close Wojciech Szczesny was to actually saving this; a few centimeters and a couple fractions of a second.

Just a few centimeters in width, a tiny foot might not open the cervix wide enough to allow the baby's head and umbilical cord to pass through.

I even started out a few centimeters dilated but I made no progress for a day and a half.

It relies on a pair of concentric cylindrical shells a few centimeters long.

Wade, the designated surgeon, then reached into the slit with a small copper knife firmly wedged between his first and second fingers so that only a few centimeters of blade peeked out.

The increase in water level was probably only a few centimeters — enough to make only a small difference compared with the magnitude of the tidal surge created by the storm.

Many of the plants were perched on stilt roots that held their main stems a few centimeters above the surface, as if the soil had eroded under them.

Only a few centimeters on a side, the device looks like a sticker and converts energy from the natural movements of internal organs — the beating heart, the expanding or deflating lung, the rising diaphragm — into electricity.

When it comes to placing electrodes, «even just a few centimeters can be enough to change the effect,» Clark says.

For starters, the current cells are small, just a few centimeters in diameter.

Phobos, the innermost moon of Mars's pair (seen in closeup, above), now orbits a few centimeters closer to the Red Planet each year.

Vessel elements are joined end - to - end through perforation plates to form tubes (called vessels) that vary in size from a few centimeters to many meters in length depending on the species.

The researchers measured falling oxygen levels at the surface of the sediment coupled with a disappearance of hydrogen sulfide (a food source to bacteria) a few centimeters below.

«A few centimeters of new snow, followed by two or three days of nice, clear, cold weather,» he intones.

A black, diamond - spackled pebble just a few centimeters across is the remainder of a comet that struck Earth almost 29 million years ago — making it the first direct evidence of a comet exploding in our atmosphere, scientists say.

«While our moon is moving away from earth at a few centimeters per year, Phobos is moving toward Mars at a few centimeters per year, so it is almost inevitable that it will either crash into Mars or break apart,» Black said.

The tiny fossil, just a few centimeters long, is giving paleontologists a rare window into the early development of a group of extinct birds called Enantiornithes, researchers report March 5 in Nature Communications.

That seemed to imply that particles in the disk had an unexpectedly low total surface area — as they would if the disks contained particles as large as a few centimeters across, co-author Henry Throop says.

But the material has been tough to manufacture in anything larger than flakes a few centimeters across.

TMS uses a magnetic coil placed on the head to increase electrical signaling a few centimeters into the brain.

The enticing evidence was delivered by the Rosetta spacecraft's OSIRIS instrument, which snaps photos of the comet's surface with a resolution as high as a few centimeters per pixel.

We estimated that sediment deposition in a small body of water that stays frozen for most of the year would probably not exceed a few centimeters a year, so such a thick sediment layer might imply that the lake existed before 1908.

Researchers have found that Tyrannosaurus Rex may have stood a few centimeters taller than previously thought, and Brachiosaurus — already a colossus at over 13 meters tall — may have towered by another 30 centimeters or so.

To dig a few centimeters deeper into Mercury's surface, solar physicist Amir Caspi and planetary scientist Constantine Tsang of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., and colleagues will use an infrared camera, specially built by Alabama - based Southern Research, that detects wavelengths between 3 and 5 micrometers.

Aerial systems can provide images with a resolution as low as a few centimeters!

Storms that dumped a few centimeters of rain on the Atacama in March 2015 — a decade's worth in one day — sparked a microbial superbloom, researchers report February 26 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In many places, it may only be a few centimeters thick.

These convective surface motions average only a few centimeters a year — about as fast as your fingernails grow — which means cells recycle their surfaces every 500,000 years or so.

The device, consisting of 16 electrodes packaged in a tiny array a few centimeters long, would be surgically implanted into a patient's lower back, just over the dura — the outermost of three layers of membranes surrounding the spinal cord.

This means that all particles — from a few centimeters to a few tens of meters across — rotate very slowly, otherwise they would bake evenly on all sides.

The devices currently run on ultraviolet light — but the researchers are now working on micro swimmers that respond to a near - infrared wavelength, which can penetrate a few centimeters of tissue.

To bring movement back to Rob Summers» paralyzed lower body, scientists and doctors surgically implanted a package of 16 small electrodes, just a few centimeters long, above the protective membrane layers of his spinal cord.

One day in the lab, Sweeney put two plants a few centimeters apart on the same Petri plate and made two small cuts on the leaf of one to simulate an insect's attack.

But these new fossils, which range from a few centimeters to 30 centimeters long, had a tiny, unsegmented brain, akin to what's seen in modern velvet worms, researchers report today in Nature Communications.

Below that is a torsional oscillator of the type he invented in the 1970s — a cylindrical vessel, just a few centimeters across, that is free to twist back and forth around a rod running down the centre of the cylinder.