Sentences with phrase «than a millimeter»

So to feel the tug, the Millennium Falcon would have to be shrunk to less than a millimeter in length.

Both are white, translucent, and less than a millimeter in length.

At less than a millimeter long and a quarter of a millimeter wide, a mosquito egg doesn't give researchers much room for error.

But in any case, the loss of Thwaites Glacier appears inevitable, Joughin said: «All of our simulations show it will retreat at less than a millimeter of sea level rise per year for a couple of hundred years, and then, boom, it just starts to really go.»

While its 46 mm case diameter is on a par with the Moto 360, at 12.6 mm, the Founder Q is more than a millimeter thicker than the 11.4 mm Moto 360.

I know Andre Miller used to say he'd just tighten his shoe laces... but heck his jumper was probably less than a millimeter on his good days.

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.

Current knowledge is insufficient for early detection of small lesions located deeper than a millimeter beneath the surface of the mucosa.»

Since 1997, scientists at the University of Colorado at Boulder have conducted experiments to search for parallel universes perhaps no more than a millimeter away from ours.

Each is less than a millimeter across, and both can be manufactured together on a single chip.

«With the same idea and more sophisticated tools, we've been able to detect motions less than a millimeter per year.»

With more tactile nerve endings than any other part of the body except the lips, the tongue can discriminate two points spaced less than a millimeter apart.

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.

With the ALMA observations the team successfully measured the number density of galaxies approximately 10 times darker than the millimeter wave research results up to now.

Still less than a millimeter long.

Because less than a millimeter of sediment accumulates every 1000 years, the few algae that fall to the sea floor are mostly consumed before they get buried.

The news raised memories of the record melt season in 2012, when the ice sheet as a whole lost 562 gigatons, or billion tons, of freshwater mass to the ocean, enough to raise sea levels the world over by more than a millimeter in that year alone.

Faced with a U.S. Department of Defense charge to manipulate well - known materials in new ways, Alan Jacobsen, a research scientist at HRL Laboratories in California, constructed delicate lattices of polymer fibers less than a millimeter thick.

The biggest difference is size and weight, adding more than a millimeter in every direction and 15g from its predecessor to make room for this camera.

The crew found the three new species of Loricifera (jellyfish - like animals less than a millimeter long) in the sediment of L'Atalante Basin, a zone of salty, oxygen - depleted water at the bottom of the Mediterranean.

Huisheng Peng and his co-workers have developed a fiber with a thickness of less than a millimeter that generates electrical power when surrounded by flowing saline solution — in a thin tube or even in a blood vessel.

And the droplets go from standing still to top speed in less than a millimeter, being subjected to acceleration 1000 times that experienced by astronauts taking off in space, the team reported here today at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology.

But this creature measures less than a millimeter long.

The particles are often less than a millimeter (0.04 inch).

Microbes are thought to be distributed heterogeneously at spatial scales of less than a millimeter.

Furthermore, the models couple CO2 forcing to the whole mixing layer of the ocean while in reality the CO2 wavelengths barely penetrate more than a millimeter and so qualitatively are a complex surface effect.

The formula is so soft you have to have less than a millimeter up.

The only miscasting here was Bo Derek, who barely seems to be able to move her face more than a millimeter at a time.

It is more sensitive to small structures down to less than a millimeter in size.

The Z2 Force is less than a millimeter larger length and width-wise, though the all - around curvature should help with the in - hand feel.