Sentences with phrase «of a millimeter long»

The team reports that a wisp of plastic just 50 millionths of a millimeter long behaved very much like a microscopic Slinky.

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.

Also, femtosecond pulses are only about a thousandth of a millimeter long.

A small entry point, a couple of millimeters long, is made so that the arthroscope can be inserted.

Except this time the titanium dioxide arrives in the form of nanotubes about 135 nanometers wide and a tenth of a millimeter long.

Not exact matches

The new prototypes, made by scientists at the University of California at Berkeley, are each roughly 3 millimeters long, 1 millimeter high and 4/5 of a millimeter thick.

So some analysts and investors with long memories are wary of the promise of using the millimeter wave rights for business cases that sound eerily familiar, despite the obvious advances in technology that have occurred over the past 20 years.

One of the most common measurements taken in the evaluation of brachycephaly and scaphocephaly is the cephalic ratio (cephalic index), which is a rather fancy term for the measurement taken by dividing the size of the widest part of a baby's skull by the longest part of the skull, in millimeters and multiplying by 100.

It is 10 millimeters wide and 24 inches long, making it a little thicker than most of the other necklaces on this list.

In the experiments reported in Science, dark gray material samples made of the elements bismuth and selenium — each a few millimeters long and of different thicknesses — were hit with «THz» light beams that are invisible to the unaided eye.

Demodex mites — cigar - shaped, stumpy - legged parasites about 0.3 millimeter long — infest about 20 percent of people under 20.

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.

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.

SNEAK PEEK At 9.5 weeks of pregnancy, a human embryo is almost 16 millimeters long — about the size of a 1 - cent euro coin.

Transplanted into a mouse, the human liver buds, about 5 millimeters long, exhibited many functions of the mature organ, such as metabolizing sugars and drugs.

The tag comes in two lengths to accommodate differently sized fish: 100 and 77 millimeters, making the total length of the tag about 11 to 14 grains of long rice placed head - to - head.

As this light travels the vast cosmic distances to Earth, the ongoing expansion of the universe shifts the once infrared light into longer millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths, all thanks to the Doppler effect.

PNNL's self - powered fish - tracking tag comes in two lengths to accommodate differently sized fish: 100 and 77 millimeters, or about 11 to 14 grains of long rice placed head - to - head.

The trunk, made mostly of slender dead cells each a few millimeters long, can reach heights of 100 meters.

The objects they can create with the hydrogel range from the width of a human hair to several millimeters long.

To get a different view, astronomer Giovanna Tinetti and her colleagues at the European Space Agency and University College London focused instead on the light grazing the atmosphere of HD 189733 b. Tinetti had predicted that water would absorb more light at the longer wavelength of 5.8 microns (thousandths of a millimeter) than at 3.6 microns, in contrast with other molecules such as methane and ammonia.

This is a close - up of an «eye» of a potato with three emerging shoots, the longest of which is about 4 millimeters long.

There are about 1,100 species of camel spiders, which range in size from tiny, a few millimeters long, to about 15 centimeters (six inches) in length.

The jawbone, barely 16 millimeters long, did not bear the characteristics of an egg - laying monotreme, such as the platypus; nor did it resemble the jaws of pouched marsupials, such as kangaroos and wombats.

According to one report published in the October issue of the Journal of Morphology and another published this week in the Danish magazine Polarfronten, the 0.1 - millimeter - long freshwater organism, dubbed Limnognathia maerski, does not fit into any of the previously known animal classes.

The two - millimeter - long exotic ants are thought to have come to the U.S. via cargo ships from Argentina around the end of the 19th century.

Instead of straying in all directions, the.3 - millimeter - long creatures clumped together on the laboratory workbench.

Fourteen participating teams each engineered two chemotaxis models, the amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum (Dicty), and the human cell line HL60, to run a millimeter - long maze of interconnected, orthogonal channels designed to mimic the cell's natural environment.

At present, metamaterials work best for longer - wavelength radiation such as radio waves and microwaves, which require elements that are on the order of tens of millimeters.

The new wasps, at 1.5 millimeters long, would fit on the tip of a dull pencil.

Raymond Simmonds of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colo., who led one of the teams, got a seven - millimeter - long wire to store a photon for more than one microsecond.

The new sensor consists of a 1 - millimeter long portion of the end of an optical fiber that narrows and is bent into a configuration called an S taper.

While the length of the petrified sperm can not be calculated from the specimens, modern mussel shrimp from the same class can have sperm up to 10 millimeters long even though their bodies are only a millimeter or two in size, the team notes.

At the stage Haeckel depicted, the fish embryo is about 1 millimeter long, while amphibian embryos at the same stage of development can be as much as 9 millimeters long.

«Previously, people were only able to grow a few square millimeters of high - mobility graphene at a time, and it required very high temperatures, long periods of time, and many steps,» says Caltech physics professor Nai - Chang Yeh, the Fletcher Jones Foundation Co-Director of the Kavli Nanoscience Institute and the corresponding author of the new study.

It's easy to overlook the snow flea: The millimeter - long insect could be mistaken for a flake of pepper on a white wintery landscape.

In the second study in Science, researchers from Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, created a chip 1 to 2 centimeters long in which a 1 millimeter - wide channel, coated with human lung cells on the inside and overlaid with human blood capillaries on the outside, mimicked the air sacs, or alveoli, of the lungs.

«We used silver and carbon ink to print an image consisting of small rods that are about a millimeter long and a couple of hundred microns wide,» said Ajay Nahata from the University of Utah, leader of the research team.

Mutations that make millimeter - long transparent worms known as Caenorhabditis elegans live longer also extend the proportion of their lives the worms spend being frail, Heidi Tissenbaum of the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester and colleagues reported last year in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

There, the uplift of the mountains is extremely rapid (on the order of 1 centimeter per year, whereas in other areas 5 millimeters per year is more typical) and the river drops by 2 kilometers in elevation as it flows through the famous Tsangpo Gorge, known by some as the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon because it is so deep and long.

Scientists have identified a fossil just a millimeter long as the earliest known sponge, helping resolve debates about when the sponge lineage diverged from that of more familiar animals.

The 0.4 - inch - long (10 millimeters) arachnid was discovered decades ago, but no one could make much of it, because the front half of the fossil is buried in rock.

On the same chip, the researchers have placed an artificial atom, which is 0.01 millimeters long and made of a superconducting material.

It depends on collecting information over a long period of time, and thanks to VLBI, we also know that the world is constantly expanding and contracting and wobbling in amounts that make five millimeters look like... well, like five millimeters.

It's easy to miss the shiny face of Augochloropsis anonyma without a microscope — the bee grows to only about 8 millimeters long.

For scientific studies, researchers usually obtain much higher - resolution images, with slices only 1 millimeter apart, which requires keeping subjects in the scanner for a much longer period of time.

Measuring museum specimens revealed that U.K. birds had slightly longer beaks than those in mainland Europe — a difference of about half a millimeter — confirming the findings of a previous study.

Millimeter waves, which are shorter than microwaves but longer than infrared, create a revealing picture that can highlight items and determine the precise chemical makeup of an object.

The team of investigators dried a standard peptide solution for a day at room temperature to allow diphenylalanine to assemble into microtube structures, with individual tubes up to 1 millimeter long and 1 - 3 micrometer wide in diameter.