Sentences with phrase «size of a postage stamp»

(So far, the company's cell cultures are reported to be small, about the size of a postage stamp, and not fully functional.)

It's a piece of microfilm, with the text of 1,245 pages shrunken down to the size of a postage stamp.

ahhhhhhhhhh I want chickens too!!!!! Unfortunately my back yard is the size of a postage stamp.

Our backyard is the size of a postage stamp.

There is nothing worse than being half asleep and struggling to make out an image the size of a postage stamp on a video monitor.

Sensors about the size of postage stamps fluoresced brightly when tested on tainted meat and apple juice, but not when the sensors touched unspoiled samples, the researchers report online April 6 in ACS Nano.

Daniel Smalley, an electrical engineer at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, and his colleagues used this method to produce graphics about the size of a postage stamp.

«Previous missions to Mars have used a relatively broad brush — analyzing average chemistry over roughly the size of a postage stamp — to «follow the water» and seek ancient habitable environments.

A small rectangle of pink glass, about the size of a postage stamp, sits on Professor Amy Shen's desk.

5,300 The number of full - length movies scientists could one day cram onto a storage device the size of a postage stamp.

Her technique involves taking a split - thickness biopsy about the size of a postage stamp (enough to treat an area up to 80 times as large) and soaking it for half an hour in an enzyme solution to extract «progenitor» cells, which promote healing and give skin color.

One of four array quadrants of the microshutter device is about the size of a postage stamp.

Photons are faster and cooler than electrons, but no one has been able to bend useful frequencies of light around the tight corners needed to navigate the million turns on a computer chip the size of a postage stamp.

Second they only coated a tiny portion of the spinning surface, equivalent to the size of a postage stamp.

Francesco Panerai, a materials scientist with NASA contractor AMA Inc. and the X-ray experiments test lead for NASA ARC, said that the X-ray experiments at Berkeley Lab were on samples about the size of a postage stamp.

Even DGPS chips have shrunk to the size of postage stamps.

By the end of the war, all that the projects had produced was a piece of uranium metal the size of a postage stamp, still unenriched with its light form.

Researchers have long said that microfluidics (microscopic plumbing) technology has the potential to shrink a laboratory to the size of a postage stamp or smaller for quicker, easier disease testing.

Roughly the size of a postage stamp, the plate is lined with microscopic grooves crossing a flexible strip of silicone that runs across the middle.

Two IMAX motion - controlled cameras combined with a long lens system known as snorkel optics enabled Slee and his colleagues to focus on scenes the size of postage stamps, producing three - dimensional panoramas that seem to suck the viewer into a world of chomping caterpillars, battling rhinoceros beetles, and raindrop - bathing ants, as well as a seething, silken - threaded cluster of newly hatching green mantises, 200 strong (above).

By arraying nearly 18,000 genes on a glass chip about twice the size of a postage stamp and recording the expression patterns of those genes, researchers have obtained detailed molecular portraits of...

The retina is a thin piece of tissue about the size of a postage stamp at the back of the eye; it's so delicate that it's often likened to wet, one - ply toilet paper.

Using billions of small holes pressed into a piece of plastic the size of a postage stamp, the experiment was able to create a very tiny version of the science used in the goblet.

However, there will always be a student who find it necessary to fold sheets to the size of a postage stamp!

There's this sort of tunnel vision effect as you try to get it sighted on the back window, which, from the front of the truck, appears to be about the size of a postage stamp.

You will need to be clearly recognized, even when the photo is reduced to the size of a postage stamp, because that's about all the space some social media sites give you.

Make sure the title is clear when the cover art is reduced to the size of a postage stamp.

More specifically, how does it look when it's shrunk to the size of a postage stamp?

So what happens when a print book cover that's 6 X 9» is reduced to the size of a postage stamp?

We take them to the office, to cafés, to dog parks the size of a postage stamp.

The problem is that all the energy bars and micro-transactions have a nasty tendency of coming with them; plus the fact that you often find yourself playing on a screen the size of a postage stamp.

Peering over the walls of a tiny mock - up of a display booth, James Danziger points to images the size of postage stamps that stand - in for the art he's planning on taking to Art Basel Miami Beach.

Two graphite drawings in the show are around the size of a postage stamp.

«The most common form of biometric authentication, fingerprint scanning, requires a hardware module that is typically the size of a postage stamp.

These plug - in cards are roughly the size of a postage stamp and will make it easy for users to upgrade the memory of the handheld.

This is Southern California, many yards are the size of a postage stamp.

With rents going up, and then up again, many people are forced to live in places the size of a postage stamp.

However, I get to the store and am overwhelmed by all of the shades of gray to choose from, not to mention the samples they offer are the size of a postage stamps and it can be difficult to select from that sample.