Sentences with phrase «of a millimeter smaller»

The species is a few tenths of a millimeter smaller than the previous minisnail record holder, a Chinese species called Angustopila dominikae that debuted a month ago in the same journal.

Not exact matches

Small yellow to cream - colored flowers are followed by shiny, deep purple to black, plump fruits about 5 millimeters in diameter and containing a cluster of tiny black seeds inside.

Because newborns have such tiny, delicate nasal passages (only about 2 to 3 millimeters, or one tenth of one inch, on each side), it takes very little change in that small space to cause big symptoms.

A paper in Science Advances by Rice engineers Ashok Veeraraghavan, Jacob Robinson, Richard Baraniuk and their labs describes a wide - field microscope thinner than a credit card, small enough to sit on a fingertip and capable of micrometer resolution over a volume of several cubic millimeters.

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

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

In that year, physicist Steve Lamoreaux, now at Yale, managed to detect the feeble Casimir force on two small surfaces separated by a few thousandths of a millimeter.

Those microscopic offspring — called veligers and as small as one - tenth of a millimeter in diameter — are covered with little hairs that help them catch currents and waves and «swim» to new locations during the first few weeks of their lives.

Adult males of the B. micra species grow to only just over a half - inch (16 millimeters) from nose to bottom, making them one of the smallest vertebrates ever found on Earth.

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.

Currently, he says, most physicians cut out either just the darkest portion of a suspicious mole, or when removing the entire mole, opt for a very small, imprecise 1 millimeter margin around the mole's edge.

The sensor consists of an optical fiber with a small, half - millimeter gap in the middle, surrounded by resin.

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.

A tenth of a millimeter is relatively small, in contrast, although it's still big on a microscopic level.

A team at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom has discovered that the reclusive 15 - millimeter insect, which lays its eggs underground next to small animal corpses, uses a slime cocktail to manipulate the number and kinds of microbes its young are exposed to as they eat the provided meat.

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.

Researchers using the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA), have for the first time, achieved a precise size measurement of small dust particles around a young star through radio - wave polarization.

In a series of ever - more - sensitive experiments over the past 30 years, researchers have established that if the shape of the electron has any distortion at all, the bulge must be smaller than 1 thousand trillion trillionths of a millimeter (10 - 27 mm).

The extremely small size of the spectrometer, 30 x 1.5 x 1.5 millimeters, means that measurements can be taken using an instrument the size of a matchbox.

The world's smallest spectrometer has successfully measured tiny deformations of Earth's crust, of the order of one millimeter, over a length of one thousand kilometers.

«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.

Now, MIT engineers have developed a far more sensitive way to reveal ovarian tumors: In tests in mice, they were able to detect tumors composed of nodules smaller than 2 millimeters in diameter.

The small form factor, in this case, describes a sensor that has a diameter of only 10 millimeters — about the size of a pea — and that can be deformed like a balloon.

Their name is derived from their size, since the diameter of a nanotube is on the order of a few nanometers (approximately 50,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair), while they can be up to several millimeters in length.

This model showed that in order to detect tumors 5 millimeters in diameter or smaller in humans, the researchers would need to improve the system's sensitivity by at least one order of magnitude.

Thin sections of sedimentary rocks between 2.7 and 3.5 billion years old reveal the presence of small inclusions a hundredth of a millimeter in diameter.

By combining these two refinements, the researchers were able to enhance the sensitivity of the sensor 15-fold, which they showed was enough to detect ovarian cancer composed of small tumors (2 millimeters in diameter) in mice.

When a bird tucked its head onto its pillowy back and shut its eyes, the center of pressure made smaller adjustments (within a radius of 3.2 millimeters on average, compared with 5.1 millimeters when active).

The proton seems to be 0.00000000000003 millimeters smaller than researchers previously thought, according to work published in the July 8 issue of Nature.

Sanders» team watched as the folds, instead of vibrating as they do to produce audible sounds, formed a small hole about a millimeter or two in diameter, through which the animals forced air.

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

Secondary particles are smaller than one thousandth of a millimeter (so - called PM 1) and are largely deposited in the airways when inhaled.

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

Developed by companies ranging from industry heavyweights General Electric (GE) and L - 3 Communications to smaller firms such as QinetiQ, millimeter wave detectors work in one of two ways: active or passive.

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.

Every standard deviation increase in the inflammation score was also associated with a hippocampus volume that was 110 cubic millimeters smaller and the volume of other areas affected by Alzheimer's disease was 532 cubic millimeters smaller.

In particular, this is the case for special ultra-thin glass fibers which have a diameter of only a few hundred nanometers (one nanometer is a millionth part of a millimeter) and which are thereby smaller than the wavelength of light.

The sensors detected changes in oxygen pressure as small as 15 millimeters of mercury, and it took less than 10 minutes to see the effects of a change in inhaled gas.

The biggest pyramids they discovered are about 22 feet (7 meters) wide at their base with the smallest example, likely constructed for the burial of a child, being only 30 inches (750 millimeters) long.

Yet, even at its highest spatial resolution (1 cubic millimeter), each voxel — the smallest distinguishable element of a 3D object — contains tens of thousands of neurons.

The researchers found dozens of graphite particles in a small dark patch on the sample — a region just 0.1 square millimeter in area — as well as seven needle - shaped rolls of carbon called graphite whiskers.

The researchers shaped this polymer into a 1.5 - millimeter sensor that could be implanted in tissue during a biopsy; they also created smaller particles (tens of microns long) that can be injected through a needle.

The new work in Nature Communications overcame fundamental barriers in utilizing LED technology on monolayer semiconductors, allowing for such devices to be scaled from sizes smaller than the width of a human hair up to several millimeters.

The two teams, led by David Koerner (of the Planetary Origins Research Group at the University of Pennsylvania) using the Owens Valley Radio Observatory and David Wilner (of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) using the Plateau de Bure Interferometer of the Institut de RadioAstronomie Millimetrique (IRAM) in the French Alps, collected millimeter - wavelength observations that were sensitive to structures as small as 20 AUs.

Using the millimeter - wave interferometer at Caltech's Owens Valley Radio Observatory, the astronomers combined 15 smaller images into a single mosaic to produce an image showing the location of Carbon Monoxide (CO) gas throughout a galaxy called IC 10, some 2.5 million light - years away.

In 12 mice, MRI was able to detect the one relatively large tumor, 17 out of 18 small tumors that were smaller than a millimeter, and 13 out of 16 milk ducts that were distended with carcinoma in situ, including some tumors less than 300 microns in width, about one - third of a millimeter.

Nanomaterials are named for their impossibly small dimensions, measured in nanometers (one millionth of a millimeter).

The only way we can limit the exposure is to just deliver to a cubic millimeter of the brain, and in order to do that, you have to have extremely small cannulas,» Cima says.

The pile - up of millimeter grains in a dust trap and the continuous distribution of small grains throughout the gap likely require a more efficient dust fragmentation and dust diffusion in the dust trap.

At the center, in the back of the retina, is the macula, a small area about 5.5 millimeters in diameter that is responsible for central vision, which is essential for tasks such as reading, driving and facial recognition.