Sentences with phrase «smaller than a millimeter»

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.

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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.

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.

Microplastics are defined as plastic particles smaller than 5 millimeters in size.

Tiny plastic particles smaller than five millimeters, so - called microplastics, are found in almost all waterbodies these days.

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.

Bubbles smaller than 10 microns or more than four millimeters produce no jet aerosols after they burst.

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).

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.

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.

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

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

The world «is and it isn't» five millimeters smaller than previously thought, he says.

The announcement that the Earth is five millimeters smaller than previously believed was to many people a nonevent — in part, I'm guessing, because five millimeters isn't very much.

At the same time, inextricably bound up with the humor, were several unimpeachably substantive questions: What did these people mean, the world is five millimeters smaller than they'd thought?

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

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.

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 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.

In his lecture, titled Seeing the invisible: Tissue structure at the cellular lever with MRI, Dr. Novikov will talk about using MRI to glimpse microstructures one thousand times smaller than one millimeter.

They should be composed of macroscopic solids larger than millimeters, but smaller than kilometers in size.

Scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered that planets orbiting the star Fomalhaut must be much smaller than originally thought.

The powertrain is topped by a voltage - control unit that boosts and regulates the electricity created by the hydrogen fuel - cell stack, which is 33 - percent smaller than before thanks to cells that are 20 - percent thinner (down to a single millimeter per cell).

Not only can it conjure a boiling liquid on demand but the spray mechanism is no small engineering feat, using a chamber less than one millimeter long the beetle can control the direction, consistency, and rapidity of their defensive spray.

Luckily, antennas on small cells can be much smaller than traditional antennas if they are transmitting tiny millimeter waves.

Small cells transmit data using millimeter waves, which get their name from their narrower - than average wavelength.

«They're so small,» I said, eyes wide as I stared down at a Bluetooth - enabled earbud no more than four millimeters thick.

Redmi 4 also provides better single hand usability due to its overall smaller footprint, but note that the Redmi 4 is about a millimeter thicker than the Redmi Y1.

Thinner actually makes the phone harder to hold & I would much rather a battery that could get me through the day than one that's a few millimeters smaller.

The second device, Swordfish, is smaller than the Angelfish with a diameter of 42 millimeters and bears resemblance to the Pebble Time Round device.

The Gear Sport is several millimeters smaller, 1.3 mm thinner too, than the Gear S3 Frontier and 13 grams lighter.

The Honor 8 measures 5.73 x 2.80 x 0.29 inches, 145.5 x 71 x 7.45 millimeters, making it slightly smaller and thinner than the Zenfone 3.

The diameter is said to be 43.5 millimeters, making its face smaller than the 46 - millimeter display of the Moto 360.

As before, this has come at the expense of battery capacity: the Z2 Play is a millimeter slimmer and 20 grams lighter than the Z Play, but its battery is 15 percent smaller.

The new sensor is the smallest one yet, measuring only 6 x 6 millimeters square in two dimensions, and being more than thin enough to put just about anywhere in a phone.

The Gear Sport's 42 - millimeter case is also smaller than the S3's 46 - mm case, making it look less ridiculous on smaller wrists.

The phone is a full millimeter thinner than the Moto Z Play, owing to a 17 % smaller battery cell that the company hopes you'll augment with one of the company's new high - capacity battery Moto Mods.