Sentences with phrase «than a millimeter in»

The combination of polar and nonpolar ice combined to raise sea levels by more than a millimeter in the last decade

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.

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.

Not exact matches

The basic definition of microfluidics is «fluid flow in a channel that has a dimension of less than one millimeter,» according to Ben Moga, president and cofounder of a company called Tasso Inc..

In a human brain, the cells would need to travel a matter of millimeters or centimeters, up to 20 times farther than the 500 microns tested here, he says.

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.

The researchers say they have demonstrated a proof - of - concept prototype that, when less than 1,000 volts were applied, got the case to contract and push a fluid consisting of deionized water and food dye up so that a pin would rise more than 0.5 millimeters — the standard height of a Braille dot — in less than 100 milliseconds (initial experiments have been done without a pin in the case).

The «ABCDE» guidelines flag lesions that are asymmetric, have irregular borders and color, a diameter of greater than 6 millimeters in size, and that have «evolved,» or changed, as warning signs of cancer.

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.

«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.»

He notes, for instance, that the TI stimulated patches several millimeters across in the rodent's brains — far larger than the precise spots targeted by implanted electrodes.

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.

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

In this week's Science Vukusic and his colleagues report that the bug's five - micrometer - thick scales were whiter than a child's baby tooth, which is encased in a millimeter - thick layer of white enameIn this week's Science Vukusic and his colleagues report that the bug's five - micrometer - thick scales were whiter than a child's baby tooth, which is encased in a millimeter - thick layer of white enamein a millimeter - thick layer of white enamel.

Johansen is also heartened by a recent discovery from ALMA, a submillimeter array of telescopes in Chile, of young planets sweeping clear paths through millimeter - sized dust grains in a protoplanetary disk no more than a million years old.

«Old» doesn't always have to mean «primitive»: paleontologists at the University of Bonn have discovered a tiny biting midge no larger than one millimeter in 54 million - year - old amber.

Using drugs to lower systolic blood pressure to less than 120 millimeters of mercury cut people's risk of heart attacks and other cardiovascular woes by 25 percent, researchers report November 9 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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

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.

The size of the diamonds varied, most being larger than 10 millimeters but some reaching sizes of 98 millimeters, similar to the Cullinan diamond discovered in South Africa in 1905 and subsequently cut for some of the British Crown Jewels.

In the organic horizon, litter was retained in the coarse particulate size fraction (greater than 2 millimeters) over 10 years, likely due to conditions that limited its physical breakdowIn the organic horizon, litter was retained in the coarse particulate size fraction (greater than 2 millimeters) over 10 years, likely due to conditions that limited its physical breakdowin the coarse particulate size fraction (greater than 2 millimeters) over 10 years, likely due to conditions that limited its physical breakdown.

In the mineral horizon, litter - derived carbon and nitrogen were broken down quickly, and retained in a finer size fraction (less than 2 millimeters), likely due to association with minerals that prevent microbes from fully accessing the carbon and nitrogeIn the mineral horizon, litter - derived carbon and nitrogen were broken down quickly, and retained in a finer size fraction (less than 2 millimeters), likely due to association with minerals that prevent microbes from fully accessing the carbon and nitrogein a finer size fraction (less than 2 millimeters), likely due to association with minerals that prevent microbes from fully accessing the carbon and nitrogen.

Measuring less than half a millimeter in diameter, the miniature experimental LSS fiber - optic probe was inserted in the FNA needle.

Now, using 3D printing, a group of engineers has created star - shaped structures (pictured) on a millimeter scale that are able to heat more uniformly than other materials have in the past.

In a mouse model of triple - negative breast cancer, mice injected with cancer cells that over-express ZMYND11 had tumor volumes of less than 50 cubic millimeters while control mice and those injected with cells expressing ZMYND11 deficient for binding to the methyl group had tumor volumes ranging from 150 to 400 cubic millimeters at eight weeks.

Oxygen from seawater permeated only the upper millimeter or so of sediment, but the researchers noticed something happening much deeper in the mud, more than a centimeter below, as if oxygen were available down there, as well.

Harvestable lobsters in 12 refuges, for instance, were about 3 millimeters longer than their unprotected cousins, suggesting they were living longer.

To get a different view, astronomer Giovanna Tinetti and her colleagues at the European Space Agency and University College London focused instead on the light grazing the atmosphere of HD 189733 b. Tinetti had predicted that water would absorb more light at the longer wavelength of 5.8 microns (thousandths of a millimeter) than at 3.6 microns, in contrast with other molecules such as methane and ammonia.

The tooth plate of just some millimeters in size had been in a box for more than 40 years, without being recognized after the discovery and preparation of the fish it belonged to.

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.

Scientists have cooked up a chemical concoction that can patch a 9 - millimeter - wide hole in a sheet of plastic, a self - repair orders of magnitude larger than ever demonstrated before.

Raymond Simmonds of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colo., who led one of the teams, got a seven - millimeter - long wire to store a photon for more than one microsecond.

The flat tips of the diamond anvils are less than half a millimeter in diameter, and the metal film (gray), ruby sphere (red), and pressure medium (blue fluid) are sealed between the diamonds by a metal gasket (solid purple).

Analyses by NASA's UAVSAR radar performed after the Bayou Corne, La., sinkhole formed show it was able to detect precursory ground surface movement of up to 10.2 inches (260 millimeters) more than a month before the sinkhole collapsed in Aug. 2012.

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.

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).

As in the case of Rainge, it can improve vision throughout the eye rather than solely in the two millimeters covered by the tiny chip.

Each pixel measures three by six millimeters, much larger than the tiny pixels in today's high - resolution screens.

Ultimately, ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array) is expected to resolve details 10 times finer than the Hubble Space Telescope when it is completed in 2012.

The Atacama Large Millimeter / Submillimeter Array (ALMA), high up in the deserts of northern Chile, is sensitive to light from cooler objects of the cosmos: clouds of gas and dust rather than burning stars.

The microscopy techniques that permit imaging of brain cells in awake mice generally can't visualize anything deeper than a fraction of a millimeter below the brain's surface, whereas the mPOA is several millimeters deep.

In the oceans, plankton can range in size from less than 1 micron, to about 1 millimeter in diameteIn the oceans, plankton can range in size from less than 1 micron, to about 1 millimeter in diametein size from less than 1 micron, to about 1 millimeter in diametein diameter.

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 diameteIn tests in mice, they were able to detect tumors composed of nodules smaller than 2 millimeters in diametein mice, they were able to detect tumors composed of nodules smaller than 2 millimeters in diametein 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.

This research is part of the Pulmonary Nodule Plasma Proteomic Classifier (PANOPTIC) study, a clinical trial of 685 patients 40 years old or older, with newly discovered lung nodules 8 to 30 millimeters in diameter as shown on a recent (fewer than 60 days old) CT scan.

What goes up, must come down and, more and more, that water vapor is coming down in extreme precipitation events — defined in North America as more than 100 millimeters of rainfall (or the equivalent in snow or freezing rain) falling in 24 hours — according to new research also published February 17 in Nature that examines such events in the Northern Hemisphere.

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

That's less than the 1.5 - millimeters - a-year rate calculated in 2011 and cited in the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).