Sentences with phrase «width of a human hair»

Ultimately, the researchers want to shrink neural dust motes down to just 50 microns wide, or roughly half the average width of a human hair.

Each wagon - wheel molecule measures only six nanometers wide, which is large for a molecule but tiny compared with the 100,000 nanometer width of a human hair.

This type of pollution refers to particles found in the air that are less than 2.5 micrometers in diameter, or 1 / 30th the average width of a human hair.

This new healthcare tech could be even more groundbreaking, as scientists are working to shrink the sensors to microns wide, about the width of a human hair.

Scientists in Japan have demonstrated how to make electrical circuits on plastic thinner than the width of human hair in an attempt to reduce the impact of bending on circuit performance.

Nanomaterials are typically less than 100 nanometres, or 100,000 times less than the width of a human hair.

Rather than using «bulk» geochemistry techniques that measure the average composition of a rock, Mars 2020 is developing new capabilities including X-ray fluorescence and Raman spectroscopy to map the elemental, mineral, and organic composition of rocks at high spatial resolution, with analytical spot sizes about the width of a human hair.

The team's novel fabrication technique involves patterning a solar absorber with tiny holes with diameters less than 400 nanometers (that's roughly 200 times smaller than the width of a human hair), cut into the absorber at regular intervals.

Manipulated to 1/100, 000 the width of a human hair, nanoparticles can act differently when operating at the quantum level.

A record - setting electric motor, which debuted last year, pushes superlatives to the limit: It consists of a single molecule, measuring just 1 nanometer across, 1/60, 000 the width of a human hair.

One vibrational cycle took about 400 femtoseconds; one femtosecond, or millionth of a billionth of a second, is the time it takes light to travel a small fraction of the width of a human hair.

The particles found measure just five micrometres or less; approximately 20 times smaller than the width of a human hair.

The disturbance was so small, it would warp the 25 trillion miles to the nearest star system by just the width of a human hair — but LIGO saw it.

Then — and here's where all the action happens — magnets will guide the two proton beams so that they collide in a region smaller than the width of a human hair.

To detect frame dragging, researchers have to identify a 0.000011 - degree shift in the spin axis, which roughly equals the width of a human hair as viewed from a quarter mile away.

In a new study published in Nature, the University of Leicester palaeontologists, along with colleagues at the University of Bristol and the University of Texas in Austin, discovered that the dark «blobs» were actually made up of hundreds of thousands of microscopic dark granules, each 50 times smaller than the width of a human hair.

It then combines with pollutants from combustion — mainly nitrogen oxides and sulfates from vehicles, power plants and industrial processes — to create tiny solid particles, or aerosols, no more than 2.5 micrometers across, about 1/30 the width of a human hair.

As DNA passes through a tiny opening in the pore — an opening that is just 0.00000012 centimeters wide, or 1/10, 000 th the width of a human hair — the current shifts based on the sequence of DNA letters.

Shorter than the width of a human hair, the roots absorbed lichen, bacteria and algae blowing about in the sand.

A strand of DNA is only about one nanometer in size — not even close to the width of a human hair which is roughly equivalent to 100,000 DNA strands.

They tweaked a commercial ProMetal 3 - D printer to spray a plastic glue over a ceramic bone substitute in layers about half the width of a human hair.

Today's smallest transistors — the fundamental components of information processing — are about one - thousandth the width of a human hair and operate at several billion cycles per second, or gigahertz.

The spindly filopodia are about a hundredth the width of a human hair and about a thousandth wide.

More than 300 of them could fit across the width of a human hair.

While scientists have known that aerosols may play an important role in shaping weather and climate, the new study shows that the smallest of particles have an outsize effect: Particles smaller than one - thousandth the width of a human hair can cause storms to intensify, clouds to grow and more rain to fall.

Deep brain stimulation involves inserting a temporary electrode the width of a human hair to find the best location and amplitude for a permanent electrode.

But evolution has worked on much smaller scales too, producing finely honed nanostructures — parts less than a millionth of a meter across, or smaller than 1 / 20th of the width of a human hair — that help animals climb, slither, camouflage, flirt, and thrive.

The coating consists of thousands of tiny glass beads, only about one - hundredth the width of a human hair.

The flying height of this fast - moving head is as low as 2 nanometers from the surface of the disk, some 50,000 times less than the width of a human hair.

In order for the interferometry to work, these corrections must be accurate to one one - hundredth of the width of a human hair.

More stuff that causes showers The air we breathe can be teeming with billions and billions of submicroscopic particles less than 1/8, 000 th the width of a human hair.

For a substrate measuring about 10 microns across, just less than the width of a human hair, their method can produce somewhere around 10,000 such centers within 10 nanometers from surface.

Three winners share the # 727,000 prize for developing nanoscale machines — 1000th the width of a human hair — that pave the way for applications in medicine, computing and engineering.

«The X-ray laser pulses are less than 30 femtoseconds in duration, the time it takes light to travel only 10 micrometres, less than the width of a human hair,» explained Chapman.

The overhead view of a new beamsplitter for silicon photonics chips that is the size of one - fiftieth the width of a human hair.

The objects they can create with the hydrogel range from the width of a human hair to several millimeters long.

Thanks to a new algorithm for designing the splitter, Menon's team has shrunk it to 2.4 by 2.4 microns, or one - fiftieth the width of a human hair and close to the limit of what is physically possible.

The sulfuric acid condensed into minute droplets — each two hundred times finer than the width of a human hair — that could easily remain suspended in the air as an aerosol cloud.

Membranes are tough to separate from the shell, and they are thin — only about the width of a human hair — so hundreds or thousands of eggs are needed for most applications.

(That's an angle, the team's literature explains, the width of a human hair seen at a distance of a quarter mile.)

Flatté has been studying how currents in magnetic materials might be used to build electronic circuits at the nanoscale, where dimensions are measured in billionths of a meter, or roughly 1/50, 000 the width of a human hair.

In addition, the material is highly flexible and could be woven into fabrics, enabling wearable forms; individual niobium nanowires are just 140 nanometers in diameter — 140 billionths of a meter across, or about one - thousandth the width of a human hair.

Poring over flecks of paint narrower than the width of a human hair, these art doctors have explored the secrets of some of the world's greatest paintings.

(To provide some perspective, the width of a human hair is about 80,000 nanometers, or 0.003 inches.)

Not surprisingly, these analyses have found higher levels of pollutants, such as nitrogen oxides and small (ultrafine) particles less than 0.1 micron (about one - thousandth of the width of a human hair), that scientists attributed to airplane emissions.

A nanometer is one - billionth of a meter; it would take 1,000 of the nanotubes in NREL's project lined up next to each other to cross the width of a human hair.

To make out the barely perceptible force, nanotechnologist Daniel Rugar and his team built a silicon cantilever one - thousandth the width of a human hair, attached a magnetic particle at the tip, and placed it near a so - called unpaired electron.

Hudson's laboratory used laser light to cool tiny amounts of the reactant atoms and molecules to an extremely low temperature — one one - thousandth of a degree above absolute zero — and then levitate them in a space smaller than the width of a human hair, inside of a vacuum chamber.

The new t - ray laser, described in the 9 May issue of Nature, is only about 10 micrometers thick, or a tenth the width of a human hair.

Using a high - powered electron microscope, Nweeia and researchers from the Smithsonian Institution and the National Institute of Standards and Technology discovered that the narwhal's tusk is riddled with millions of tiny tunnels, each about 1/100 the width of a human hair.