Goodfellow's unit has so miniaturized the mass screening of such compounds that machines now replicate the countless experiments in pinhead-size droplets--1, 536 tiny wells on envelope-size plates--a process that formerly took humans untold man-hours.
It's probably mostly its tiny size -- and the fire engine red probably doesn't help its case much in that respect, either.
He must be quick: flies usually bite within 10 seconds of skin contact and despite their tiny size - less than a millimetre - they are ferocious.
Over in Germany, researchers unveiled a technique that harnesses the power of lightning to break up concrete into usable building materials and scientists at MIT built a tiny, caterpillar-size robot that can transform into almost any shape.
So we opted for a sombre burial in the Greenhouse, under the shade of the tallest of the mangroves, though in truth it meant a slightly watery grave after all, stuff seeping up through the muck to swallow the foot, bubbles of mud detaching and floating among us during our tiny, foot-size ritual observances.
The key to cracking that nut is apparently the new thermal assisted optical element Fujitsu's developed, allowing for an ultra-tiny sub-hundred nanometer optical spot size, which in turn should enable recording on the one terabit (not byte, let's not get crazy here) per square inch level.
The recovered pieces -- many the size of large boulders, others as tiny as pebbles -- are stored in several shelters.
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Commercial trials are under way on Affectiva's skin-conductance sensors, wristwatch-size devices that detect emotional engagement by measuring tiny changes in sweat-gland activity.
This means the transistors - or tiny on-off switches that power its processors - can be shrunk in size.
Can run iPhone Apps as either a really tiny window, or scaled up to full-screen size.
Here, the pixels shrank from 4mm2 to just 1mm2 -- roughly the same size as the tiny acoustic perforations.
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Think about this next time you walk past the Halloween candy-filled conference room: A tiny, fun size Snickers bar packs a whopping 80 calories, and so do ten little pieces of candy corn!
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As for the keyboard dock's built-in trackpad, it responds surprisingly well to two-finger scrolls, but the pad's tiny size means you won't actually have much space to pull off those kinds of gestures.
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Fret not, though, as the company assured us it'll be using tiny class-D digital amping that won't affect its current size, aiming to provide 80-100 peak RMS watts of power.
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They can range in size from tiny, like the new Jeep Compass, to Texas-sized, like the coming GMC Acadia and Saturn Outlook.
Each neuron has a long fiber, or axon, that stretches upward through a tiny opening in the bone above it and into the olfactory bulb, a plum-size mass in the front of the brain, behind the forehead.
They range in size from tiny to immense, and in number of spots from one to more than twenty-five thousand.
These stones currently makeup a tiny portion of the gem-quality diamonds in the marketplace and have until recently been limited in terms of size and color.
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Most incredible of all is the size of the Anzani engine - just 25 horsepower, barely enough oomph to carry even a tiny plane across the water.
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