Sentences with phrase «size time bombs»

«Because of my mothers struggle with breast cancer when I was 16, I always felt I had two B - size time bombs sitting on my chest, just waiting to explode,» says the 37 - year - old, of Charleston, South Carolina.

A molecule - sized time bomb that smuggles a triple dose of deadly radioactivity into cancer cells has been developed.

Not exact matches

The United States followed in January 1958 with the 31 - pound satellite Explorer I. Even as the nascent U.S. space program focused on pint - size payloads, however, a research team at an obscure division of the General Dynamics Corporation was secretly drawing up plans for a monstrous 4,000 - ton spaceship that would be powered by the sequential explosions of thousands of hydrogen bombs and would ferry hundreds of astronauts at a time across the solar system.

But the yield of North Korea's nuclear tests crept up each time, and the most recent test, in September 2016, may have exceeded the size of the Hiroshima bomb.

The result was this utter bomb, with Matt Damon as an English mercenary (with a Midwestern American accent), who happens to be in Imperial China at a time when killer iguanas, each the size of a Honda Odyssey, start attacking.

While he's answered most of the questions out there, Sideway still holds few more details yet to be revealed, including bite - sized, intra-level time trials to earn collectables and «birds that poop bombs.»

Players navigate the Bomber sibling of their choice through dozens of small, grid - like areas, taking out obstacles and enemies by dropping timed bombs that blow up in straight cross-like explosions, while collecting powerups that can increase player speed, explosion size, and the amount of bombs that can be onscreen at once.

«You end up with these kind of urban time bombs, where cities have doubled, tripled, quadrupled in size in 50 years» without good building standards, said Richard Olson, director of the Extreme Events Institute at Florida International University.

Over the past century, the Antarctic has gone from being a vast Terra Incognita to a continent - sized ticking time bomb: according to NASA, Antarctica has lost «approximately 125 gigatons of ice per year [between 2002 and 2016], causing global sea level to rise by 0.35 millimeters...

This abrupt increase in the gas, 20 times as effective at trapping heat as carbon dioxide, would accelerate global warming 15 - 35 years ahead of current projections, setting off a so - called «economic time bomb» of some $ 60 trillion (roughly the size of the 2012 global economy, writes Climate Central) the commentary estimates.

It exploded miles above Earth, releasing nearly 500 kilotons of energy - about 30 times the size of the nuclear bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in World War Two, NASA added.