Sentences with phrase «shorter than a millimeter»

These spherical arachnids (pictured), most shorter than a millimeter, can trek up to 4 meters in the belly of a gastropod — about 2000 times farther than they can get on their own, according to a new study.

Not exact matches

«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.»

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.

That may change within 10 years or so, when astronomers hope to succeed in hooking up telescopes from all over the world that observe the universe at wavelengths shorter than 1 millimeter.

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

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.

At 4,177 millimeters (13.7 ft), the two ‑ seater is 21 millimeters (0.8 in) shorter than its predecessor.

The M9 is a couple millimeters shorter than the M8, though still unusually tall for a 5 - inch phone thanks to the black bar with the HTC logo that sits beneath the display.