Sentences with phrase «less than a human hair»

On the opposite extreme, independently operated coiled polymer muscles having a diameter less than a human hair could bring life - like facial expressions to humanoid companion robots for the elderly and dexterous capabilities for minimally invasive robotic microsurgery.

Forgive me if «net feedback strength» absorbed in the less than human hair thickness of the warmer ocean surface does not impress.

Not exact matches

The Southern Baptist branch was based on segregation when it formed, splitting from its parent Baptist Church which apparently could not in theory subjugate individuals to being less than human based on skin, eye, and hair color and features.

Nanomaterials are typically less than 100 nanometres, or 100,000 times less than the width of a human hair.

The team's novel fabrication technique involves patterning a solar absorber with tiny holes with diameters less than 400 nanometers (that's roughly 200 times smaller than the width of a human hair), cut into the absorber at regular intervals.

It is accurate to less than half the thickness of a human hair.

The flat, wingless insects are tiny (between one and two millimeters long — less than a tenth of an inch), suck on human blood, and cement their eggs, or nits, to our hair.

Scientists imaged more than 1,700 mouse brains (injected with a tracer virus) at resolutions less than a micrometer, or 50 times smaller than a human hair.

The particles found measure just five micrometres or less; approximately 20 times smaller than the width of a human hair.

A nanometer is less than 1/1, 000 the size of a red blood cell and about 1/20, 000 the diameter of a human hair.

But evolution has worked on much smaller scales too, producing finely honed nanostructures — parts less than a millionth of a meter across, or smaller than 1 / 20th of the width of a human hair — that help animals climb, slither, camouflage, flirt, and thrive.

The discovery follows years of groundbreaking work by Arnold, who in 1995 discovered that an optical fiber could excite what he termed Whispering Gallery Mode (WGM) in polymer micro-beads less than one - third the diameter of a human hair.

More stuff that causes showers The air we breathe can be teeming with billions and billions of submicroscopic particles less than 1/8, 000 th the width of a human hair.

An array of QDs, analogous to the sand in the acoustic example, are embedded in the slice, whose thickness is less than one - tenth of one percent that of a human hair.

Kopeikin estimated that Jupiter caused only a tiny amount of deflection — less than 15 billionths of an arc second, or the thickness of a human hair as seen from a distance of 400 miles.

The cylinders contain sheets of plastic membranes wrapped around a central pipe, and the membranes are stippled with pores less than a hundredth the diameter of a human hair.

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new device that measures the motion of super-tiny particles traversing distances almost unimaginably small — shorter than the diameter of a hydrogen atom, or less than one - millionth the width of a human hair.

The transferred pieces are also much more elastic because they are so thin — a tiny 1.5 microns or less, much thinner even than a human hair.

These iron - rich minerals are far less than the width of human hair in size, but produce a strong magnetic signal that can be easily measured by modern magnetometers.

But what could you use if you wanted to create something really small — a structure less than the width of a human hair?

«Just as some human females have male - pattern facial hair, albeit less pronounced than in males, some female fence lizards display the typically - male blue markings,» Langkilde said.

The current world record is held by the Electron Microscopy Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where STEM images have been produced with a resolution in the range of 0.6 angstrom — less than one - millionth the width of a human hair.

The force created by the rocket is less than the weight of a human hair, but in the vacuum of space it is enough to push a small object forward with a constant acceleration.

At 30 microkelvins, the atmosphere would shrink to a mere millimeter, and at 30 nanokelvins, the height of the atmosphere would be one micron, or a hundred times less than the thickness of the human hair.

This type of pollution refers to particles found in the air that are less than 2.5 micrometers in diameter, or 1 / 30th the average width of a human hair.

The evidence comes in the form of tiny glassy spheres, less than one - hundredth the width of a human hair, discovered at the Great Plains of Oklahoma after a rainstorm and put under scrutiny by scientists at several U.S. Department of Energy facilities.

Under the terms of the contract, Coherent will precisely contour and polish the optical surfaces of 230 mirror segments to the accuracy of less than 1 / 50th of the width of a human hair.

They are designed to operate fully exposed in the harsh conditions of the Array Operations Site, to survive strong winds, and to keep their smooth reflecting surfaces accurate to at least 25 micrometers (less than the typical thickness of a human hair) under a wide range of air temperature of -20 to +20 degrees.

Materials scientist Dongsheng Li will use sophisticated microscopes to take a close look at how nanocrystals less than one - thousandth the width of a human hair assemble into branched structures while the process is taking place.

This produces nanowire filaments that are a thousand times thinner than the diameter of a human hair, typically about 300 nanometres or less.

The size of these pores (less than 5 nanometers, nm) is 5,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair.

Despite measuring 10,000 times less than the diameter of a human hair, the new muscles can lift more than 100,000 times their own weight, which amounts to approximately 85 times the power of a natural muscle of equivalent size.

The surfaces of all of these dishes, to accurately reflect millimeter and submillimeter waves, are smooth to less than the thickness of a human hair.

It's stronger, healthier and less likely to tangle than the ordinary human hair because the cuticle is still intact

(Humans usually have far less hair than dogs) A low lathering shampoo will not only prevent residue build up but the colloidal oatmeal formula is very effective at combating itching in the first place.

Cesar «The Dog Whisperer» Millan says that human scalps are less sensitive than a dog's hair and skin.

«If a store sells a Golden or a consumer has gotten a pup, the retailer should be able to advise them as to what to purchase, and know why a forced - air dryer is more effective and less likely to cause harm than a human hair dryer.

The main culprits are small particulates — pollutants less than one tenth the thickness of a human hair that are produced by incomplete combustion of fossil fuels and biomass.