Science news articles about 'four inches'

  • The Natural Artificial Foot

    ... was like navigating an obstacle course. “Hitting a low spot of even one inch with my old foot was like a non-amputee stepping into a four-inch hole,” he adds. “Not good.” read more
  • Greenland ice core analysis shows drastic climate change near end of last ice age

    ... The cores from the site -- located roughly in the middle of Greenland at an elevation of about 9,850 feet -- are four-inch-diameter cylinders brought to the surface in 11.5-foot lengths, said White.
  • World's smallest snake found in Barbados

    The world's smallest species of snake, with adults averaging just under four inches in length, has been identified on the Caribbean island of Barbados. The species -- which is as thin as a spaghetti ...
  • Targeted radiation therapy can control limited cancer spread

    ... with one to five distant metastases and no tumors bigger than 10 centimeters (about four inches) in diameter were eligible to participate in the study either before or after chemotherapy treatment. ...
  • Caltech scientists create DNA tubes with programmable sizes for nanoscale manufacturing

    ... is exactly 42 bases long and contains four modular binding sites. By pairing up the complementary ... of wood sizes are used in construction projects--two by four inches for framing walls, two by eight ...
  • Slicing solar power costs

    ... – raw germanium costs about $680 per pound. Four-inch-wide wafers used in solar cells cost $80 to ... wire saw method. The researchers cut 2.6-inch-diameter wafers with a thickness of 350 microns. The ...
  • Researchers and students to develop small CubeSat satellites

    ... the project. CubeSats, developed about five years ago, are approximately four-inch cube-shaped devices that launch from inside a P-Pod, a special rocket attachment that was ...
  • UM archaeologists find unique, early US relic of African worship

    ... CLAY BUNDLE The Maryland team discovered the bundle four feet below Fleet Street in the Annapolis historic ... bundle measures about 10 inches high, six inches wide and four inches thick. It remains ...
  • Reef Madness

    Big Red: This soft coral has branches of up to an inch long [shown here]. The animal, six inches tall and four inches wide, now lives in an aquarium at the Queensland Museum. ...
  • Tiny seahorse among new species

    ... the list include a tiny snake measuring just four inches, a 22in-long stick insect from Malaysia, and a snail whose shell twists in four directions. A palm that flowers itself to death, a ...
  • Study reveals sandfish tucks legs and swims like a snake through desert sand

    ... inhabits the Sahara desert in Africa and is approximately four inches long. It uses its long, wedge-shaped ... through granular media -- up to speeds of six inches per second. This speed allows the animal ...
  • A new cloaking method

    ... objects." For example, radar microwaves have wavelengths of about four inches, so Milton says the study shows ... something 10 times wider, or 40 inches. That raises hope for cloaking larger objects. ...
  • NASA Goddard shoots the moon to track lunar spacecraft

    ... beyond low-Earth orbit on a daily basis produces distance measurements accurate to about four inches (10 centimeters). For comparison, the microwave stations tracking LRO measure its range to a ...

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