Sentences with phrase «less than a millimeter»

I know Andre Miller used to say he'd just tighten his shoe laces... but heck his jumper was probably less than a millimeter on his good days.

Still less than a millimeter long.

The crew found the three new species of Loricifera (jellyfish - like animals less than a millimeter long) in the sediment of L'Atalante Basin, a zone of salty, oxygen - depleted water at the bottom of the Mediterranean.

At less than a millimeter long and a quarter of a millimeter wide, a mosquito egg doesn't give researchers much room for error.

Faced with a U.S. Department of Defense charge to manipulate well - known materials in new ways, Alan Jacobsen, a research scientist at HRL Laboratories in California, constructed delicate lattices of polymer fibers less than a millimeter thick.

So to feel the tug, the Millennium Falcon would have to be shrunk to less than a millimeter in length.

Each is less than a millimeter across, and both can be manufactured together on a single chip.

But this creature measures less than a millimeter long.

Microbes are thought to be distributed heterogeneously at spatial scales of less than a millimeter.

Both are white, translucent, and less than a millimeter in length.

But in any case, the loss of Thwaites Glacier appears inevitable, Joughin said: «All of our simulations show it will retreat at less than a millimeter of sea level rise per year for a couple of hundred years, and then, boom, it just starts to really go.»

The Z2 Force is less than a millimeter larger length and width-wise, though the all - around curvature should help with the in - hand feel.

Not exact matches

The basic definition of microfluidics is «fluid flow in a channel that has a dimension of less than one millimeter,» according to Ben Moga, president and cofounder of a company called Tasso Inc..

«A paperlike LCD — thin, flexible, tough and cheap: Less than half a millimeter thick, the new flexi - LCD design could revolutionize printed media..»

Consequently, optically rewritable LCDs are thinner than traditional LCDs, at less than half a millimeter thick, can be made from flexible plastic, and weigh only a few grams.

The component has a base area of less than one millionth of a square millimeter without the data transmission rate being affected adversely.

The robots were even able to pinpoint and align objects like pins and holes, requiring precision at a scale of less than two millimeters.

The researchers say they have demonstrated a proof - of - concept prototype that, when less than 1,000 volts were applied, got the case to contract and push a fluid consisting of deionized water and food dye up so that a pin would rise more than 0.5 millimeters — the standard height of a Braille dot — in less than 100 milliseconds (initial experiments have been done without a pin in the case).

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.

«Our research indicates that insertion of cervical pessary at around 22 weeks in both randomly selected women pregnant with twins and in patients with a short cervix of less than 25 millimeters does not reduce the rate of spontaneous early preterm birth, perinatal death, adverse neonatal outcome, or need for neonatal therapy.»

It even captures the smallest particles with diameters of less than a hundred - thousandth of a millimeter.

Parts of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, meanwhile, could see 21 consecutive days of less than 1 millimeter of rainfall.

The technique is sensitive enough to detect a glass bead less than half a millimeter wide on a latex sheet.

Using drugs to lower systolic blood pressure to less than 120 millimeters of mercury cut people's risk of heart attacks and other cardiovascular woes by 25 percent, researchers report November 9 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

They also made a branching pattern of arteries with walls less than one millimeter thick.

Parnell's team has been able to show that sea level rise on the East Coast has been much less than 1 millimeter (mm) per year for the entire period 0 AD to 1800 AD, and, since then, it's skyrocketed.

One robot that is already benefiting is the Harvard Ambulatory Microrobot, a four - legged machine just 17 millimeters long and weighing less than 3 grams.

However, our eyes can not see something much less than the width of a hair (about a tenth of a millimeter) without the aid of a magnifying device.

In the mineral horizon, litter - derived carbon and nitrogen were broken down quickly, and retained in a finer size fraction (less than 2 millimeters), likely due to association with minerals that prevent microbes from fully accessing the carbon and nitrogen.

Measuring less than half a millimeter in diameter, the miniature experimental LSS fiber - optic probe was inserted in the FNA needle.

In a mouse model of triple - negative breast cancer, mice injected with cancer cells that over-express ZMYND11 had tumor volumes of less than 50 cubic millimeters while control mice and those injected with cells expressing ZMYND11 deficient for binding to the methyl group had tumor volumes ranging from 150 to 400 cubic millimeters at eight weeks.

For instance, small fruit flies have the longest sperm ever described, not whales, whose sperm are less than a tenth of a millimeter long and almost a thousand times shorter than those of the flies.

But new modeling studies by Marchant and his team have shown that sublimation of deeply buried ice is extremely slow, less than a tenth of a millimeter per year.

Using drugs to lower people's systolic blood pressure, the pressure when the heart contracts, to less than 120 millimeters of mercury could cut heart attack, stroke and death rates.

The edge of the Namib Desert, where the rings form, is a dry, sandy place that sees less than 100 millimeters of rainfall each year.

The flat tips of the diamond anvils are less than half a millimeter in diameter, and the metal film (gray), ruby sphere (red), and pressure medium (blue fluid) are sealed between the diamonds by a metal gasket (solid purple).

Its dishes collect wavelengths about a millimeter or less — much shorter than those detected by traditional radio telescopes.

Deserts are typically defined by low average annual rainfall — usually 100 millimeters (less than 4 inches) of rain per year or less.

That gave him the idea for his latest project: a nano - abacus, with beads of individual molecules less than a millionth of a millimeter wide.

In the oceans, plankton can range in size from less than 1 micron, to about 1 millimeter in diameter.

Tens or even hundreds of these filaments are then twisted together to form a single e-thread that's usually less than half a millimeter across.

The region has received about 4 inches (100 millimeters) less rain than normal.

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.

For their ultrafast snapshots of PYP dynamics, the scientists first produced tiny crystals of PYP molecules, most measuring less than 0.01 millimeters across.

That's less than the 1.5 - millimeters - a-year rate calculated in 2011 and cited in the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Until recently researchers hypothesized that roots less than two millimeters in diameter, which are responsible for most below - ground nutrient cycling, live for about a year.

They determined that the distribution of small bubbles (less than one millimeter across) differed from that of large ones (greater than one millimeter across).

The researchers found that plants in tropical and subtropical biomes exhibited the largest diameter range for the finest root tips that forage for nutrients, from less than 0.25 millimeters up to 1 millimeter.

By contrast, the new nano - spirals have solid arms and are much smaller: A square array with 100 nano - spirals on a side is less than a hundredth of a millimeter wide.

For instance, the desert and grassland species studied all had root diameters of less than 0.25 millimeters.