Sentences with phrase «of a millimeter across»

Tiny extra dimensions, smaller than a fraction of a millimeter across, have also been proposed, but they wouldn't affect such extended ripples.

Now a new report published in the current issue of the journal Nature describes a light source measuring only tens of millimeters across that changes color according to temperature.

«Mini-intestine grown in a test tube for nutritional research: Organoids just a quarter of a millimeter across exhibit functions of the human intestine.»

So how does each tiny cell pack a two - meter length of DNA into its nucleus, which is just one - thousandth of a millimeter across?

Not exact matches

It is one of our biggest cases at 60 millimeters across.

Empirical studies of forests across Alaska show that North America's white spruce require at least 280 millimeters (11 inches) of precipitation each year, a number that rises if mean summer temperatures are higher than 15.5 degrees Celsius (roughly 60 degrees Fahrenheit).

The human retina is a patch of nervous tissue in the back of the eyeball half a millimeter thick and approximately two centimeters across.

Current treatment to stop this spread, called laser photocoagulation, places an approximately 1 millimeter square grid of burns uniformly across the back of the retina outside the area of good vision.

Making Mutant Beach Hoppers: Beach hopper embryos (top), half a millimeter across, are lined up and prepared for an injection by Erin Jarvis, a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley.

This microscope is powerful enough to detect objects as small as a single micron — one - thousandth of a millimeter — and plaques are about 10 microns across.

They developed a theoretical grid across the floor of the chamber, spaced at a quarter of a millimeter.

The Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, a collection of 66 movable dishes spread across 16 kilometers, is nearing completion.

As this light travels across the cosmos, it becomes stretched due to the expansion of the Universe, so by the time it arrives at Earth, the far - infrared light has shifted to the submillimeter / millimeter portion of the spectrum.

The result: tiny green spheres about half a millimeter across, «a population of pure, early lung cells,» says Hawkins.

But according to string theory, at small scales like a millimeter (1/25 of an inch), gravity might hop across higher dimensions and perhaps into other, parallel universes, growing diluted in the process.

Most of the ones you see will be somewhere around a few millimeters across.

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 largest of these particles are just microns (thousandths of a millimeter) across: All seven could fit in the period at the end of this sentence.

The tracks of this cellular railway are almost unimaginably small — just 25 nanometers across (a nanometer is a millionth of a millimeter).

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

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 device developed by Panchapakesan's team includes an array of tiny elements, each about a tenth of an inch (3 millimeters) across.

The instrument uses a carefully engineered cantilever with a tip just nanometers (millionths of a millimeter) across to scan a surface in the way the needle of a phonograph does.

The surface of Eris is likely nitrogen and methane - rich, but in a thin (1 millimeter) layer across the surface.

The largest mini-brains-in-a-dish are only 4 millimeters across — roughly the size of a sea slug or jellyfish brain — and, Minnesota's O'Brien said, «a tiny, tiny fraction of the human brain.

«We're accustomed to seeing how our Sun appears in visible light, but that can only tell us so much about the dynamic surface and energetic atmosphere of our nearest star,» said Tim Bastian, an astronomer with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Va. «To fully understand the Sun, we need to study it across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, including the millimeter and submillimeter portion that ALMA can observe.»

A new study confirms that this was not Floridians» imaginations: From 2011 to at least 2015, the rate of sea level rise across the southeastern US shot up by a factor of six, from 3 - 4 millimeters a year to 20, and a combination of oceanic and atmospheric processes seem to be responsible.

Detective John Cardinal and his wife, Catherine, lived in the smallest house on Madonna Road, but even that tiny place would have been beyond their means were it not for the fact that, being situated across the road from the water, they owned neither an inch of beach nor so much as a millimeter of lake frontage.

Between the northern and southern parts of the delta, the team found an east — west zone of uplift roughly 40 kilometers across at its widest point, slowly rising at rates of up to 7 millimeters per year.

Cloud droplets, for example, might be a couple hundredths of a millimeter in diameter, while the smallest grid cells that are considered in a model may be more like a couple hundred kilometers across.

You can check my 1988 - Naturwissenschaften - paper on dust transport for the particle size versus suspension lifetime stats, The bottom line is that as millimeter sized grains fall out in hours, and vertical convection systems seldom cohere for days, few particles larger than tens of microns make it across the pond.

The rate of slippage averages about 33 to 37 millimeters (1.3 to 1.5 in) a year across California.