| 单词 | billionth |
| 例句 | After I use the bathroom for the billionth time, I finally find Lorena in the back porch, surrounded by a circle of cretins who are way too old to be at a high school party. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z It may have seemed clever at the time, but after about the billionth time, it had grown old. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z For all that, the pair did succeed in measuring the time lag of the photoelectric effect at about two billionths of a second. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The nucleus of an atom is tiny–only one millionth of a billionth of the full volume of the atom–but fantastically dense, since it contains virtually all the atom’s mass. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z When it was announced a couple of weeks ago that Flickr, the photo-hosting site, had hosted its five billionth picture, someone pointed out smugly that Facebook already has over three times that number. Are the best pictures on Facebook or Flickr? 2010-10-02T23:06:00Z To look at something just one foot away from your face is to peer into the past, one billionth of a second back in time. For Cass McCombs, the truth is blowing in the apocalyptic breeze 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z The big deal is that voice: an ingenious trick on the web perhaps, but here it wears thin after the first billionth of a second. Fred: The Movie ? review 2010-12-16T22:00:00Z It's a weird mish-mash of inane quiz shows, programmes that steadfastly refuse to acknowledge the existence of the housing crisis and, on Channel 4, the billionth series of Come Dine With Me. Is Dinner Date perfect teatime telly? 2011-07-21T12:06:31Z That said, I just finished re-reading "The Sun Also Rises" for the 15 billionth time. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Joe Queenan on Books Classic, Trashy and Otherwise 2012-11-30T15:00:16Z Each packet contains 110 billion protons and is spaced 25 nanoseconds apart, an interval of about 25 billionths of a second. At the Large Hadron Collider, a peek at the future of science 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Also, if you manage to produce a Higgs boson, a thousandth of a billionth of a billionth of a second later, you will no longer have a Higgs boson. Physics and culture collide 2012-07-13T18:32:00Z It's incredibly long, there are lots of flashing lights and your vision is likely to go permanently soft midway through the billionth needless dubstep breakdown. Eurovision song contest 2013: the key songs to watch out for 2013-05-17T15:03:09Z Or by showing me that Christopher Maloney Songs For Me Nan album cover for the millionth millionth billionth time? The X Factor final – live blog 2012-12-08T19:47:59Z Yes, it's a goose pulling what seems like the billionth funny face of the trailer, but Alpha and Omega is a kid's film. How Dennis Hopper's reputation may go from alpha to omega 2010-06-16T11:20:00Z So I peeked inside my coat for the billionth time to check if Celeste was still snoozing — and breathing. From pacifiers to Picassos: Museums cater to a younger clientele 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Nanowire networks are made up of tiny wires that are just billionths of a metre in diameter. Nanowire 'brain' network learns and remembers 'on the fly' 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z Then they essentially took a series of ultrafast X-ray images of the dislocations forming and spreading on a timescale of billionths of a second. Groundbreaking study shows defects spreading through diamond faster than the speed of sound 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z These pulses are on the scale of attoseconds—a billionth of a billionth of a second. Ultra-Fast Laser Trailblazers Win 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z Electrons are particles inside atoms and they move incredibly fast - in billionths of a second. Physics Nobel Prize rewards science on a 'tiny timescale' 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z Such cells are each around one-hundredth millimeter in diameter and weigh less than a billionth gram, and comprise the basic building blocks of living organisms. Researchers develop first method to study microRNA activity in single cells 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z Precise arrangement of nanometre-sized structures -- at just one billionth of a metre -- is one of the major challenges in the ongoing miniaturisation in electronics, optics and medicine. Precisely arranging nanoparticles 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z Hormel sold its billionth can of Spam in 1959 and has now sold more than 9 billion cans, according to the company. How Spam fed our troops and became an international phenomenon 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z At about two billionths of a nanometer, it’s tiny—but still large enough to distinguish those two states from each other beyond doubt. Physicists Create Biggest-Ever Schrödinger's Cat 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z The emissions combine to produce light pulses that pass by in the tiniest fraction of a second—a billionth of a billionth. Quantum Light Could Probe Chemical Reactions in Real Time 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z It marked the billionth time the Grammys had snubbed her for the top award. Review: Hip-hop and Beyoncé almost saved the show until Grammys botched the ending 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z Imagine the infamous Tsar Bomba—the most powerful thermonuclear weapon ever detonated—and you’re about five billionths of the way there. Should You Really Worry about Solar Flares? 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z A nanometre is a billionth of a meter. Industrial espionage: How China sneaks out America's technology secrets 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z It will need to be perfectly shaped down to a level of 1 picometer—one-millionth of one-millionth of 1 meter—compared with billionths of a meter for JWST. NASA unveils initial plan for multibillion-dollar telescope to find life on alien worlds 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z The fuel and canister get vaporized within a few billionths of a second during the experiment. Why fusion ignition is being hailed as a major breakthrough in fusion – a nuclear physicist explains 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z Intel long led the race to shrink the number of transistors on a chip, which is usually described in nanometers, or billionths of a meter, with smaller numbers indicating the most cutting-edge production technology. U.S. Pours Money Into Chips, but Even Soaring Spending Has Limits 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z The smaller those dimensions — measured in nanometers, or billionths of a meter — the more transistors can be packed on a piece of silicon. In Phoenix, a Taiwanese Chip Giant Builds a Hedge Against China 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z Moreover, modern global computing systems have become more tightly intertwined and more reliant on hyper-precise timing, sometimes to the billionth of a second. It’s Official: The Leap Second Will Be Retired (a Decade from Now) 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z And because of that the 8 billionth child born will “not have what we had … because there’s not enough resources,” she said. Earth at 8 billion: Consumption not crowd is key to climate 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z They decided to christen the world's five billionth baby. As the 8 billionth child is born, who were 5th, 6th and 7th? 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z High-frequency traders in financial markets execute orders in thousandths and even billionths of a second. Is Time Running Out for the Leap Second? 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z "I was probably four or five years old when I first heard the word billionth baby on the UN population day, when a camera crew landed up at my school," she says. Aastha Arora: Where is India's billionth baby now? 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z The lasers are aimed in pulses of 20 billionths of a second and 500 trillion watts—roughly 1,000 times U.S. power usage at any given instant—at minute samples of plutonium and other substances. See the Facility That Tests whether Nuclear Weapons Work 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z On Tuesday somewhere a baby will be born that will be the globe’s 8 billionth person, according to a projection by the United Nations and other experts. Earth at 8 billion: Consumption not crowd is key to climate 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z We would have to be able to measure the mass of the battery to a precision of a billionth of a percent, or 1 part in 1011 , to notice this increase. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z Users of GPS, which include cellphone and data networks, can determine the time of day to within 100 billionth of a second, and the information is free and widely available. Is Time Running Out for the Leap Second? 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z "I was the billionth baby, soon we could have the two billionth baby," she adds. Aastha Arora: Where is India's billionth baby now? 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z Earth intercepts and reflects less than one billionth of the Sun’s radiation, so its apparent brightness in visible light is less than one billionth that of the Sun. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z An electron microscope can view something as small as 1 billionth of a meter, such as viruses or a DNA molecule. Miller & Levine Biology 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time of the universe’s billionth birthday, that hydrogen was ionized. Webb telescope wows with first images 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z The new structures exist for just a hundred thousandth of a billionth of a billionth of a second but may explain how our Universe is formed. Pentaquarks: scientists find new "exotic" configurations of quarks 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z When physicists look for new heavy particles, they assume a fleeting lifetime—the hefty 125 GeV Higgs boson lives for less than a billionth of a trillionth of a second. Large Hadron Collider Seeks New Particles after Major Upgrade 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z To ensure the light paths are all the same length, operators will adjust the segments’ distance from the secondary mirror by fractions of a wavelength of light—billionths of a meter. After reaching deep space haven, Webb telescope begins 5 months of fine-tuning 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z The latest conflict is over photolithography, which uses ultraviolet light to etch circuits into silicon on a scale measured in nanometers, or billionths of a meter. China pursues tech ‘self-reliance,’ fueling global unease 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z Smush those components closer together than about 45 nanometers, or 45 billionths of 1 meter, and current starts to leak from one to the next. Flipped transistors make fleeter computer chips 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z Some of these may have a less fleeting existence - perhaps a hundred billionth of a second. Pentaquarks: scientists find new "exotic" configurations of quarks 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z These exquisite organs through which energy moving in tiny waves — billionths of a meter from wave peak to wave peak — registers as a rainbow of light. Opinion | From sunsets to laughter, a universe of things to be thankful for 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z It’s tough to create this odd ice, and earlier, researchers had managed to observe it for just a few billionths of a second. ‘Weird, hot, black ice’: Scientists discover new phase of water 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z Now, as India celebrates the delivery of its one billionth dose, a feat that until recently seemed improbable, public health experts are sounding a new warning: The turnaround is losing steam. India Eased Its Covid-19 Disaster. Fears of Complacency Remain. 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z India also celebrated administering its billionth COVID-19 vaccine dose last month, further boosting confidence that life is returning to normal. Indians celebrate festival of light amid COVID-19 fears 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z India has administered its one billionth Covid-19 vaccine dose, a key milestone for a country hoping to have all 944 million adults fully vaccinated by the end of the year. Coronavirus news live: India administers billionth vaccine dose,, Singapore at risk of being ‘overwhelmed’ amid record deaths 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z The telescope team will analyze the images and tell motors to adjust the segments in steps measured in billionths of a meter. James Webb Space Telescope: An astronomer explains how to send a giant telescope to space and why 2021-09-18T04:00:00Z Even Run, the song that was struggling to compete against Counting Stars, recently racked up its one billionth play. Ryan Tedder: Classic songs are strangling new music 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z This week Khan planted the billionth tree in that drive. Rich states haven't done enough for the environment, Pakistan PM says 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z The computer chip industry used to use nanometres - one billionth of a metre - to measure the physical size of transistors. IBM 2nm chip breakthrough claims more power with less energy 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z That smaller amount was less than 250 nanograms, or 250 billionths of a gram — less than one one-hundred-millionth of an ounce. Einsteinium Is Mysterious. Scientists Have Unlocked Some of Its Secrets. 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z Biden said when he was interrupted for what felt like the billionth time. Review: Democracy fails another stress test as Trump runs roughshod over debate 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z The fires are millionths or billionths the size of the solar flares visible from Earth, which are eruptions thought to be caused by the Sun’s magnetic fields. Closest Sun shot, methane rising and a Plan S development 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z The smallest conceivable length of time might be no larger than a millionth of a billionth of a billionth of a billionth of a second. The Universe’s Clock Might Have Bigger Ticks Than We Imagine 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z A nanometer equals one billionth of one meter. Scientists reveal the best materials for making your own mask 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z Sorry, I'm currently re-watching "Entourage" for the billionth time during the quarantine, and I just watched that hilarious "What about Bob?" episode last night, so it's on my mind. College GameDay at the Masters would be the greatest crossover event in the history of mankind - Golf Digest 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z The herbicide damages plants that aren't genetically altered to resist it at concentrations in the air as low as 1 billionth of a gram per cubic meter. How big corporations are poisoning our farms 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z But SNAs, at only billionths of a meter across, seem able to travel anywhere in the body and get inside cells before immune defenses can waylay them. The Power of Spheres 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z There is no alternative to a humble viewpoint, since each of us lives for just an eyeblink—a few billionths of the entire cosmic history. Essential Advice for Fledgling Scientists 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z As the graphite heats up, it saturates the ring-like structure of the metal and starts to push upward into a vertical array of hollow cylinders, each some billionth of an inch thick — the carbon nanotubes. Ultra-Black Is the New Black 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z At this point, it's worth reminding readers, for about the one billionth time, that Trump was a reality TV star. Trump loves drama: Now Democrats need to use that addiction against him 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z For most elements, that moment is measured in billionths of a second. Researchers Enable "Super Mice" to See Near-Infrared Light 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z Time intervals in these reactions are on the order of millionths or billionths of a second. Manfred Eigen, Nobel-winning chemist who clocked the speeds of fast reactions, dies at 91 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z Even better, this signal from the sensors themselves is very low, less than one billionth of the gravitational acceleration on the surface of Earth, 1g. Mars InSight: The silence of space 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z In 2017, volunteers packed and shipped the organization’s 2 billionth meal. Richard Proudfit, whose nonprofit has delivered 2 billion of free meals, dies at 88 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z The system was launched in 2007 and collected its billionth data point in September, providing the basis for hundreds of scientific publications. The man behind the internet of animals 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Earlier this month, Lyft crossed a major milestone when it completed its 1 billionth trip. Lyft hits a major milestone: 1 billion trips 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z So RIA lets us measure a billionth of a gram of hormone. How hormones went from theoretical to overhyped in one century 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z “Inside a processor, an enormous amount of stuff happens in a billionth of a second.” Time Split to the Nanosecond Is Precisely What Wall Street Wants 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z A femtosecond is a millionth of a billionth of a second, which is roughly to a second what ten cents is to the GDP of the entire planet. Submarine cables could be repurposed as earthquake detectors 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z The researchers used hundreds of thousands of atoms which, when cooled to a few billionths of a degree above absolute zero, acted like waves whose states overlapped to form a single quantum system. Universe's first moments mimicked with ultracool atoms 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z Each one was made from a flat, rectangular DNA origami sheet, 90 nanometres by 60 nanometres - a nanometre is a billionth of a metre - and a blood-clotting enzyme, called thrombin, was attached to their surface. The 'nanobots' and 'ninja polymers' transforming medicine 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z It was the ability to, for the very first time, measure hormones down to the billionth of a gram. How hormones went from theoretical to overhyped in one century 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z Huygens, named for the Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens, who invented the pendulum clock in 1656, uses so-called machine-learning techniques to synchronize a network of computers to within 100 billionths of a second. Time Split to the Nanosecond Is Precisely What Wall Street Wants 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z To let users develop such strategies, Alpha Trading Labs provides them with historical data on U.S. stock prices that show price fluctuations down to a billionth of a second. Want to Be a High-Frequency Trader? Here’s Your Chance 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z Last week, it clocked up its one billionth play on YouTube. Brits 2018: The real winners and losers 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z At 38 protons and 215 billionths of a millimeter across, strontium atoms are relatively large by comparison. How a Student Took a Photo of a Single Atom 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z Some clocks don’t exactly agree, but these discrepancies are a matter of a few nanoseconds—or billionths of a second. Three Books That Prove Timing Actually Is Everything 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z A billionth of a second is roughly the time it takes light to travel one foot. Time Split to the Nanosecond Is Precisely What Wall Street Wants 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Specifically, this rare “hexagonal diamond”—so named for its crystal structure—forms at a pressure of 500,000 atmospheres and on the timescale of billionths of a second. Watching How Rare, Meteoric Diamonds Form 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z Standing next to her grandfather, she receives the billionth treatment for NTDs delivered by the international NGO Sightsavers and its partners. The billionth treatment for river blindness – photo essay 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z The US Department of Energy says the "ultra-bright, high-energy" X-ray beams, produced at its laboratory, can examine structures and materials at a nanotechnology level "where scale is measured in billionths of a metre". Egyptian mummy's secrets revealed 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Each atom is itself a composite that's one tenth of a billionth of a meter across—sitting on the precipitous edge of a universe between our perceived reality and the quantum world. A Fantastic Journey through Cosmic Scales 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Space is hostile to humans but friendly to appropriately designed robots, and offers many more resources than our thin film of biosphere, which receives less than a billionth of the sun's light. Falling Walls: The Past, Present and Future of Artificial Intelligence 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z The tiny particles – measuring a few millionths to a few billionths of a centimetre – include molecules from preservatives and contaminants such as nickel, chromium, manganese and cobalt, researchers reported in the peer-reviewed journal Scientific Reports. Tattoo ink contaminants can end up in lymph nodes, study finds 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z The billionth treatment was given to Dorcas as part of the United programme, funded by UK aid and supported by a network of organisations. The billionth treatment for river blindness – photo essay 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z The US Department of Energy says the "ultra-bright, high-energy" X-ray beams, produced at its laboratory, can examine structures and materials at a nanotechnology level "where scale is measured in billionths of a metre". Egyptian mummy's secrets revealed 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Cornell and Wieman were trying to cool a puff of rubidium gas to within a few billionths of a degree of absolute zero—colder than any place in nature, even the 2.73 kelvins of space. Coolest science ever headed to the space station 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Last week Merlin, the global digital rights agency representing more than 20,000 independent labels, announced that it had paid out its billionth dollar to members. From streaming to selfies – six things Taylor Swift taught the music industry 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z He’s probably the nine billionth player to think similar thoughts. MLB Umpires are the Snowflakes of the Week - Golf Digest 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z But pulsars do slow down, sometimes by a mere but measurable billionths of a second a year. How a NASA Spacecraft May Help Aliens Find Earth 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z It’s just the billionth reminder this season that people in this story have memories, the past affects the present even in the smallest ways, and the world has continuity. Game of Thrones, The Spoils of War is the dragon payoff we’ve been waiting for 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z That’s roughly 30 billionths of a percent lower than the average value from past experiments—a seemingly tiny difference that is actually significant by three standard deviations. Top stories: Detecting fake images, Earth’s fastest animals, and why dogs are so friendly 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z They’re so light—just billionths of a billionth of a billionth of a kilogram—that they can’t be weighed by ordinary means. Surprise! The proton is lighter than we thought 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z They perform a computer’s basic logic gate operations—that is, adding, subtracting or otherwise manipulating the bits—in billionths of a second. Quantum Computers Compete for "Supremacy" 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z In the new study special mirrors focused the x-rays onto spots about 200 nanometers or billionths of a meter wide, Rudenko says. X-Ray Lasers Make Atoms Act Like "Black Holes" in Molecules 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z “I thought I got there in plenty of time,” Holtby said, and this is instructive, about the billionth time we’ve been taught lessons about the margin of error in the playoffs. Decisive goal came late, but Capitals lost the game with earlier miscues 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z “I admire Tesla and @elonmusk,” he said, “but this is the billionth example of why stock market valuations don’t reflect reality.” Tesla charges ahead to overtake Ford in market value 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z But a carbocation appeared and disappeared so quickly — in a billionth of a second or less — that it was almost impossible to study. George A. Olah, Carbon Compounds Pathfinder, Dies at 89 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z The axion—if it exists—is an uncharged particle perhaps a billionth as massive as the electron or lighter. Spinning black holes could fling off clouds of dark matter particles 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z Andrew Geraci’s equipment, on the other hand, comprises a glass bead 300 billionths of a metre across, held in a lattice of laser light inside an airless chamber. Searching for particles on a benchtop 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z The passive hydrogen maser clocks in Galileo are determined to be accurate to one billionth of a second per day, or one second in three million years. Galileo satellites experiencing multiple clock failures - BBC News 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z A nanosecond is one billionth of a second. Navy’s bomb testers seek new ways to blow things up 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z For example, researchers determined that black holes between about one-thousand billionth and one-billionth the mass of the Sun would destroy neutron stars. Dark matter: What's the matter? : Nature : Nature Research 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z It was only then, when Facebook was closing in on its billionth user, that he joined the network. Inside Facebook’s (Totally Insane, Unintentionally Gigantic, Hyperpartisan) Political-Media Machine 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z In work published last year in Physical Review A, his team showed that the apparatus can detect forces of a few billionths of a trillionth of a newton. Searching for particles on a benchtop 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z The company in 2018 plans to begin making chips with circuit dimensions rated at 7 nanometers, or billionths of a meter, compared with 14 nanometers for its most advanced chips today. Globalfoundries Plans Big Investment in New York State Chip Plant 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z The company just got its 10 billionth check-in. Foursquare’s Swarm app will let you spend virtual coins on real deals 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z Earlier this year, Apple approached its billionth iPhone — and that number of potential users doesn’t include iPads, let alone the comparable reach of Android. Why Nintendo finally brought Mario to iPhone 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z And this summer Apple sold its billionth iPhone, less than a decade after its introduction. Mossberg: The post-Jobs Apple has soared financially, but lacks a breakthrough product 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z The mostly sulfur-dioxide atmosphere has a surface pressure just one billionth of the one on Earth at sea level. Something crazy happens to Jupiter’s moon Io for 2 hours every day 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z A femtosecond is a millionth of a billionth of a second. Ahmed H. Zewail, Nobel-Prize-Winning Chemist, Dies at 70 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z In 40 years working at the the California Institute of Technology , he experimented with lasers to monitor chemical reactions at a scale of a femtosecond, which is a millionth of a billionth of a second. First Arab Nobel science winner Ahmed Zewail dies - BBC News 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z The billionth sale occurred sometime last week, though Apple hasn't specified who the customer was or where the sale took place. Apple has sold over 1 billion iPhones 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z Vijaya Rangari of Tuskegee University, Alabama, told a recent meeting of the American Chemical Society about his use of ultrasound to break eggshells up into particles mere billionths of a metre across. A cracking yarn 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z The next year, the store celebrated its 10 billionth download. Life and death in the App Store 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z The image, a transmission electron micrograph, shows particles that are 40 nanometers – or 40 billionths of a meter in size – with an outer envelope and an inner dense core. Here's What the Zika Virus Looks Like 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z The effects of time delays in the rapid communication with satellites of a few billionths of a second, as predicted by Einstein’s theory, translate into a drift of GPS positions of 7 miles a day. Without Albert Einstein, We’d All Be Lost 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z We are still a long way from finding the equivalent of the nine billionth name. Nine billion company names 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z All that energy is delivered in a single shot lasting 20 billionths of a second focused on a tiny gold cylinder full of hydrogen. Inside the Quest for Fusion, Clean Energy’s Holy Grail 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Today, modern microprocessors are composed of billions of switches capable of switching on and off in just billionths of a second. IBM Scientists Find New Way to Shrink Transistors 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Researchers aim to compare the lengths of the arms to a precision of 10-19 meters—a billionth the width of an atom. Hunt for gravitational waves resumes 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z Intel was about six months late in reaching production volume of its last production process, which created circuitry measured at 14 nanometers, or billionths of a meter. Intel Points to Delay in Next Production Process 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z One nanometre is equal to one billionth of a metre. IBM makes chips with 'smallest components' - BBC News 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z The first prototype of the kirigami-inspired stretchable conductor involved paper covered in carbon nanotubes—pipes of carbon that are only nanometers, or billionths of a meter, wide that possess remarkable electrical conductivity. Accordion-Like Conductors Could Spawn Flexible Display Screens 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z A centimeter-per-second velocity shift will leads to a Doppler shift that changes the frequency of visible light by tens of kilohertz, or less than a billionth of the frequency. Using Ultrafast Lasers To Look For Earth-like Worlds 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z A single transistor is now worth a billionth of a penny. Happy 50th, Moore’s Law 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z But the navigation and timing signals from space, accurate to a billionth of a second, are now used in more minivans than Humvees. Space experts endorse sharing military satellite data 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z A molecule of DNA, holding its blueprint for life, is about 2.5 billionths of a meter in diameter. Nanomedicine Aims New Treatments at Cancer and Dangerous Wounds 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z At RHIC, the plasma droplet survives for about a hundred-thousandth of a billionth of a billionth of a second before cooling and condensing into individual particles. America's Last Major Particle Collider Awakens 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z But for a body the size of Earth, gravitational energy accounts for a half a billionth of its inertial mass. Feature: Drop-testing general relativity, Galileo’s way 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z "We're recreating temperatures that were last seen billionths of a second after the Big Bang," Prof Shears explains. LHC restart: 'We want to break physics' 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z A nanometer is one billionth of a meter, or about 10 times the diameter of a single atom of helium. Ultra-small U-M logo shows possible new drug delivery tool 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z But even a good geotechnical sampling might probe only 1 billionth of the dirt along the tunnel route, the dispute board pointed out. Tunnel contractors not at fault over Sodo soil changes, panel says 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z With a thickness measured in billionths of a meter, solar panels made of perovskite will be more than 40 percent cheaper and 50 percent more efficient than those commercially produced today, Sundaram said. New-generation solar panels far cheaper, more efficient: scientists 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z And yet, this is totally fine with me and I’m not here to debate for the billionth time about what constitutes a “game.” Telltale's 'Game of Thrones' Has A Strong, Shocking Start 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z “OK, there was something nowadays called the singularity, sized about a billionth of a billionth of an inch. More evidence emerges that the Big Bang is settled science,” Mr. Payack observes. ‘Hands up, don’t shoot’ named the most cited phrase of the year by langauge researchers 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z They measure around 200 billionths of a meter. Readers Respond to "ClimeApocalype" 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z This is no small feat: the molecules are nano in size, occupying only billionths of a meter. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2014 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Curtis’ father, Michael Padnos, told The Boston Globe he always knew his son would return home and never doubted his release for “one billionth of a second.” Freed U.S. Journalist Peter Theo Curtis Comes Home to Boston The chitin filaments are just a few billionths of a metre thick - far thinner than a very fine sheet of paper. Beetles' whiteness understood 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z Then they set to work trying to identify the origin of the few billionths of a gram of iron in every liter of the water collected. Desert Dust Feeds Deep Ocean Life 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z First, almost nobody in the entire country gave even a billionth of a toss about them, and second, Ukip went into them promising to ignite a political earthquake like no other. Sad Batman, risky selfies and Game of Thrones: the key to 2014 (so far) 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z Cloud Peak officials said Wednesday the mine will ship its billionth ton of coal in the days ahead. Cordero Rojo mine to ship billionth ton of coal 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z Goldman, 48, in May sold his 1 billionth beverage. Even after sale to Coca-Cola, Bethesda-based Honest Tea ‘work in progress’ Last fall, Mondelez sold its one billionth breakfast biscuit here and introduced a soft version. Nielsen Rewards Innovations of Successful New Products 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z Having just recorded its billionth Android device activation, Google was eager to "reach the next billion" smartphone users. Dear Google: don't screw up Android 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z Last year Apple sold its 25 billionth song. 7 Lessons Music Mavens Can Teach Entrepreneurs 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z But here’s the thing—for the billionth time—the scientists never, ever speak in absolutes like that. WTF, Rick Perry? Homosexuality is Like Alcoholism? 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Inflation explained all of these puzzles by positing an episode of superfast expansion long before the cosmos was a billionth of a billionth of a second old. Backlash to Big Bang Discovery Gathers Steam 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z A nanosecond is a billionth of a second. High & Low Finance: Sacrificing Sense for Speed in Markets 2014-04-10T17:52:12Z And if you want to place a long bet, the billionth iPhone seems likely to arrive before the calendar turns to 2017. Without Much Fanfare, Apple Has Sold Its 500 Millionth iPhone 2014-03-25T12:12:00Z The company sold its billionth K-Cup last year and foresaw a lot of room for growth in the U.S. based on overseas comparisons. Everyone Wants to Be in K-Cups, Even Coffee Laggards Like Krispy Kreme 2014-02-12T10:43:21Z Simon Segars, the company’s chief executive officer, revealed that the 50 billionth ARM-based product shipped during the quarter and said he expects to ship an additional 50 billion chips over the next few years. ARM Designs One of the World's Most-Used Products. So Where's the Money? 2014-02-04T16:36:33Z That is about one billionth of the estimated number of neurons in the brain. A New Method to Measure Consciousness Discovered 2014-01-07T13:15:02.479Z The quantities used are tiny - a few billionths of a gram, dissolved in saline. The drugs derived from deadly poisons 2013-10-18T01:55:45Z They vary in size from being a few nanometres to several microns across—that is from billionths of a metre to millionths of one. Climate science: Clouds of (slightly less) unknowing 2013-10-02T18:02:57Z Operating a massive particle accelerator requires much more than flicking a switch – thousands of individual elements have to all come together, synchronised in time to less than a billionth of a second. LHC celebrates five years of not destroying the world 2013-09-12T14:17:56.150Z To do this, he chills rubidium atoms to a few billionths of a degree above absolute zero, and uses lasers to trap them in a lattice with egg-carton-like pockets. Physicists net fractal butterfly 2013-09-12T13:50:32.257Z Researchers from Switzerland, the US and Israel identified what they termed "champion nanoparticles" of haematite, which are a few billionths of a metre in size. Rust promises hydrogen power boost 2013-07-08T17:27:23Z A nanogram is a billionth of a gram. Motoring: Redefining ‘Under the Influence’ 2013-06-07T20:50:07Z The pulse lasts for one-half of one-thousandth of a billionth of a second. Small, Laser-Beam Box Detects Clandestine Nuclear Materials 2013-06-06T16:38:47Z Their new drug is a nanoparticle, measuring about one billionth of a metre. QUB creates 'magic bullet' lung drug 2013-05-15T05:59:59Z The data center’s attraction for tenants is a matter of physics: data, which is transmitted as light pulses through fiber-optic cables, can travel no faster than about a foot every billionth of a second. The Cloud Factories: North Jersey Data Center Industry Blurs Utility-Real Estate Boundaries 2013-05-13T17:22:42Z Speaking of Apple’s App Store, the company is counting down to its 50 billionth download. Apple Loop: Counting Down App Downloads, Tuning Into iRadio, Bidding for Tim Cook's Time 2013-05-11T19:24:47Z Apple is close to hitting its 50 billionth download from the App Store. Apple to give $10,000 gift card to user who downloads 50 billionth app 2013-05-03T15:13:00Z For example, cicada wings are covered in rows of waxy cones about 200 nanometers or billionths of a meter high. Cicada Wings Are Self-Cleaning 2013-04-29T21:15:00.223Z The composite is mostly composed of artificial proteins, but embedded within it are tiny gold rods only 15 nanometers — or billionths of a meter — wide and 50 nanometers long. How Lasers and Glue Help to Weld Tissue Ruptures 2013-04-26T15:45:00.567Z These are substances with features measured in nanometres, or billionths of a metre, which let them bend light in unusual ways. Table-top astrophysics: How to build a multiverse 2013-03-14T16:06:58Z The world’s 7 billionth person, born sometime last March, elicited concern that we would run out of food and resources for everyone. Overcrowding? Nah -- World's Population May Be Declining 2013-01-12T17:05:24Z But given the sensitivity of modern instruments, which can detect gains or losses of the order of billionths of a kilogram, it must be done properly. Measurement: Mass effect 2013-01-10T16:11:28Z Rosen confidently asserts that crowd-funding is “where the industry is heading” and points to the Lending Club, which just did its billionth dollar loan, the majority of it lent just this year. Solar Crowd-funding: Assembling the Mosaic 2013-01-07T20:51:25Z This result, described today in Science, marks the gas’s transition from just above absolute zero to a few billionths of a Kelvin below absolute zero. Quantum Gas Goes below Absolute Zero 2013-01-03T23:45:01.023Z In October, Facebook announced that it officially recorded its billionth user. Facebook’s 2012: IPO, a billion users and a shift to mobile 2012-12-25T04:08:42Z It has a beautiful geometry that allows it to respond in less than 50 billionths of a second, so energy from particles moving close to the speed of light can be detected. Person of the Year Runner-Up: Fabiola Gianotti 2012-12-21T14:15:00Z "Almost-perfect" because the process of peeling the stamp from the DVD creates tiny imperfections, what the team call nano-gaps, just billionths of a metre wide. DVD's cheap trick boosts sensing 2012-11-21T14:12:36Z The timing needs to be extraordinarily accurate as the system opens a “gate” to let through single photons for only a tenth of a billionth of a second. Quantum Cryptography At The End Of Your Road 2012-11-20T20:15:00.473Z For visible light, that's just a few hundred billionths of a metre. Where's my cloak of invisibility? 2012-11-12T00:43:40Z Each hair splits into hundreds of tips just 200 billionths of a metre wide. The real Spider-Man: Stickiness goes to the next level 2012-11-08T00:17:17Z “When you make color with structure, you start with a material that is transparent, but by changing the structure by just a few hundred nanometers” — billionths of a meter — “you can change the color.” Basics: True Blue Stands Out in an Earthy Crowd 2012-10-25T17:30:43Z But in 2012, they're still going strong - their pitifully weak signals just a billionth of a billionth of a billionth of a watt of power by the time they reach the Earth. The maths that made Voyager possible 2012-10-23T00:23:26Z For a mismatch of a few billionths of an electron volt, the loan typically lasts a few nanoseconds. Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics 2012-10-09T20:45:02.517Z “I don’t even know if we knew who the billionth person was,” Zuckerberg says about two weeks later. Facebook: The Making of 1 Billion Users 2012-10-04T16:00:39Z Did you guys think about doing anything with the billionth user, grocery store-style? Facebook's 'Next Billion': A Q&A With Mark Zuckerberg 2012-10-04T11:03:01Z A microgram is one billionth of a kilogram. FDA urged to set standards for arsenic in rice 2012-09-19T16:10:00Z That may not sound like much, but production levels are currently measured in the billionths of a gram. Antimatter and Fusion Drives Could Power Future Spaceships 2012-09-13T15:45:00.407Z The quest for the shortest pulse has been ongoing since the laser's invention Researchers in the US have produced the shortest-ever laser pulses: just 67 billionths of a billionth of a second. Team clocks shortest laser pulse 2012-09-06T09:16:34Z Each pulse delivered to a tiny spot more than a million watts of power for about five billionths of a second. Nasa's Mars rover zaps first rock 2012-08-19T22:27:55Z These chips feature transistors that measure 28 nanometers, or billionths of a meter, and are critical for the small chips used in cellphones and tablets. UPDATE 2-Tokyo Electron to buy FSI International for $252.5 mln 2012-08-13T15:37:56Z Just after the Big Bang—less than a billionth of a second afterwards–the universe began to expand exponentially. The Higgs Boson: What You Should Know About What It Is and What It Does 2012-07-09T14:35:41Z The molecule - just over a billionth of a metre across - gets its name because its five linked rings resemble the Olympic symbol. 'Olympic rings' molecule imaged 2012-05-28T02:18:52Z In recent years the field of "femtosecond" lasers - producing pulses lasting just millionths of a billionths of a second - have become widespread research tools. Team clocks shortest laser pulse 2012-09-06T09:16:34Z At some point in the past few months, China's billionth mobile phone customer switched on his or her handset for the first time. China's billion phone app market 2012-05-21T23:12:28Z Our place in the sun is so very small that we intercept only one-half of one billionth of the heat which it is giving off night and day. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z When physicists started experiments a little more than a decade ago, a qubit lasted only a few billionths of a second. I.B.M. Inch Closer on Quantum Computer 2012-02-28T05:01:01Z It requires a tiny bar just billionths of a metre across and with a sharp tip that ends in a single small molecule. Electric image of single molecule 2012-02-26T20:19:54Z GC/MS can detect the presence of as little as 5 billionths of a gram of testosterone in urine and it can determine whether the testosterone was made by the human body or not. Ryan Braun and the MLB's 'Unbeatable' Drug Test 2012-02-24T20:35:18Z Nanomaterials are engineered on the scale of a billionth of a meter, perhaps one ten-thousandth the width of a human hair, or less. Nanomaterials? Effects on Health and Environment Unclear, Panel Says 2012-01-26T19:50:09Z Nanomaterials are engineered on the scale of a billionth of a meter, perhaps one ten-thousandth or less the width of a human hair. Nanomaterials? Effects on Health and Environment Unclear, Panel Says 2012-01-25T19:49:57Z Nanotechnology relies on the ability to engineer materials on the scale of billionths of a meter, the size of mere clumps of atoms. NRC Report Calls for New Nano Safety Research Strategy 2012-01-25T19:30:11Z The force twists the thread that supports the cylinder, causing it to rotate by an amount measured in billionths of a degree. Frontier experiments: Tough science 2012-01-04T18:20:13.233Z When scientifically administered the fatal dose is less than one billionth the weight of an ordinary human body. Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 2012-01-04T03:00:28.750Z I look at it as the seven billionth consumer. Wealth Matters: Analysts and Advisers Review Investment Predictions 2011-12-30T20:05:58Z In today's chips, the length of these gates is about 45 nanometers, or billionths of a meter. New 3D Transistors May Lead to Lighter Laptops 2011-12-28T15:37:00Z To create a movie of the event, the researchers record about 500 frames in just under a nanosecond, or a billionth of a second. Speed of Light Lingers in Face of M.I.T. Media Lab Camera 2011-12-13T00:05:10Z Like the recent birth of the world’s seven billionth baby, Bloomber New Energy Finance says, it’s impossible to pinpoint exactly how the one trillionth dollar was spent. Global Clean-Energy Investments Surpass $1 Trillion 2011-12-07T03:02:46Z Thus, to trace it, the autopsy doctors would have to find, separate or segregate a billionth bit of the mass under observation. Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 2012-01-04T03:00:28.750Z A nanometer is a billionth of a meter. The Microprocessor Powers Through Its 40th Birthday 2011-11-15T15:02:29Z “Like a lot of things, the first units you produce seem to be a bit more expensive than the millionth or billionth,” he said. Green Blog: Flying on Chicken Fat 2011-11-14T15:22:55Z In dingy rooms with peeling walls and grimy peach tiles, these women knew little about the world’s 7 billionth person, nor really seemed to care. India Ink: Under Grim Conditions, the Seven Billionth Baby May Have Been Born in India 2011-11-02T09:49:21Z Though boys are generally more valued than girls there, they gave a shout-out to double-X chromosomes by designating seven girls as representing the seven billionth. City Room: Global Citizen No. 7,000,000,000 2011-11-01T12:24:53Z “I’m so happy,” said the dad of Baby Oishee, born in Bangladesh and also declared the 7 billionth living human. It?s Raining Babies 2011-11-01T11:30:09Z The View from the Ward On the day the world’s seven billionth person was born, Lynsey Addario — who is seven months pregnant — went to a maternity ward in India. Lens Blog: Reader Submission Project: What Should a Newborn Know About Our World? 2011-10-31T21:56:18Z Picturing 7 Billion As the seven billionth person enters the world, we are asking readers to show the newest generation what the world looks like today. Lens Blog: Lynsey Addario Photographed Birth Two Months Before Her Own Due Date 2011-10-31T20:26:05Z The United Nations Population Fund estimated that the earth’s milestone 7 billionth resident was born Monday, most likely somewhere in India. India Ink: Under Grim Conditions, the Seven Billionth Baby May Have Been Born in India 2011-11-02T09:49:21Z The world's 7 billionth person was born in the Philippines, a fast-growing, Catholic-majority Southeast Asian nation. Danica Camacho: What the Future Will Hold for the World's 7 Billionth Person 2011-10-31T16:35:34Z But I also think that when the 6 billionth person rolled around — just 12 years ago — the world was in a very different and much brighter place. 7 Billion People: How the Next Population Milestone Will Affect Our Crowded World 2011-10-28T07:00:00Z The United Nations Population Fund estimates that the world’s seven billionth person was born on Monday, most likely in India. Lens Blog: Reader Submission Project: What Should a Newborn Know About Our World? 2011-10-31T21:56:18Z Twelve years later one of the 78 million children born this year is the seven billionth person. Human Population Reaches 7 Billion—How Did This Happen and Can It Go On? 2011-10-28T11:45:00.227Z And when the world population reaches seven billion, officials will declare some lucky baby to be the seven billionth living person, completely indifferent to the fact that it's a lie. "Proofiness" Inherent in Population Milestones Such as "7 Billionth Person" 2011-10-27T11:15:00.237Z Of course, there's no way of knowing if Danica is, in fact, the world's 7 billionth resident; in many ways, it doesn't matter. Danica Camacho: What the Future Will Hold for the World's 7 Billionth Person 2011-10-31T16:35:34Z This month, the 7 billionth person will be born on a planet already strapped for resources. The Top 10 Megacities of Today -- and the Fastest-Growing Cities of Tomorrow 2011-10-26T18:05:33Z And The Guardian asks, “What would you say to the world’s 7 billionth person?” Lens Blog: Reader Submission Project: What Should a Newborn Know About Our World? 2011-10-31T21:56:18Z On October 31, 2011, a particularly special person will be born—the seven billionth human alive, according to United Nations demographers. Human Population Reaches 7 Billion—How Did This Happen and Can It Go On? 2011-10-28T11:45:00.227Z Their estimates are pretty good, predicting when, say, the world's population reaches six billion—they might even be able to guess when the six billionth person is born to within a few hours. "Proofiness" Inherent in Population Milestones Such as "7 Billionth Person" 2011-10-27T11:15:00.237Z The United Nations says the world's seven billionth baby will be born on October 31. Crowded, stretched world awaits 7 billionth baby 2011-10-25T14:39:34Z The conference was meant to celebrate, raise awareness and sound a few alarms regarding a U.N. estimate that the 7 billionth human is due to join the party Oct. Cities Will Feel Brunt as Global Population Passes 7 Billion 2011-10-19T19:45:00.267Z A nanometer is one billionth of a meter and measures the size of transistors in a chip. IBM, Intel Start $4.4 Billion in Chip Venture in New York 2011-09-27T18:58:01Z Regardless, the seven billionth person raises the question: How much is too much? Human Population Reaches 7 Billion—How Did This Happen and Can It Go On? 2011-10-28T11:45:00.227Z Ideas: The $11 Bottle of Water The world’s seven billionth person is on the way. You?re the Boss Blog: A Weekly Roundup of Small-Business News 2011-09-06T11:13:11Z Now the size of transistors is measured in billionths of a metre. Transistors: Plugging the leaks 2011-08-17T19:17:49Z More broadly, the 7 billionth addition to Homo sapiens represents a spurt of 4 billion people in five decades. Cities Will Feel Brunt as Global Population Passes 7 Billion 2011-10-19T19:45:00.267Z Earlier this year, Apple’s App Store reached its 10 billionth web application download goal. Link: Why HTML 5 Will Kill (or seriously Injure) Mobile App Stores 2011-07-19T05:35:56Z It is very likely that sometime shortly after its rumored hundred billion dollar IPO in the first quarter of next year it will find its billionth user. One Simple Rule: Why Teens Are Fleeing Facebook 2011-06-24T19:00:22Z The hairs are exceptionally small - only as long as human hairs are wide, and just billionths of a metre thick. Bats' hairs are 'airspeed sensor' 2011-06-21T10:23:35Z Indeed, the researchers say that any deviations from perfect roundness within electrons must measure less than a billionth of a billionth of a billionth of a centimeter across. Electron Perfectly Round to One Part in a Million Billion, Experiment Finds 2011-05-25T22:15:01.953Z Meanwhile, the 7 billionth person on the planet is expected to be born this year—and the human population may reach 10 billion by this century's end, according to the latest United Nations analysis. Will 10 Billion People Use Up the Planet's Resources? 2011-05-25T17:45:00.277Z Earlier this year, the company's Paper Glider became the 10 billionth piece of software to be downloaded from the site. VIDEO: Making money out of mobile games 2011-05-13T11:08:45Z On Wednesday in San Francisco, Intel talked about its next big shift: to processors with features just 22 billionth of a meter wide. Bad News For Nvidia, Qualcomm, And Texas Instruments: Intel Is Still Coming 2011-05-05T10:28:25Z Workers in white suits with facemasks and hoods worked in the clean room to repair and realign sophisticated machines that must be precise to billionths of a meter. A Chipmaker in Japan Scrambles to Restart 2011-04-27T23:30:07Z The microscope imaged objects down to just 50 billionths of a metre to yield a never-before-seen, direct glimpse into the "nanoscopic" world. Most powerful microscope unveiled 2011-03-01T18:38:32Z We may be cousins to the worm, at the billionth remove; but we are not brothers. The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn 2011-01-30T03:00:15.907Z So when they said that Neon Play's Paper Glider was the 10 billionth app, I was completely and utterly dumbstruck. British app developer and British buyer nab Apple's ten billionth app download 2011-01-22T20:56:31Z February was also the month iTunes sold its 10 billionth track. 52 weeks 52 questions, part one 2010-12-21T11:34:40Z One nm is one billionth of a meter. A Low-Cost Catalyst Prepares to Take on Power-Plant Emissions 2010-10-05T13:41:00Z Unfortunately for physicists, Dr Hawking also predicted that the typical temperature at which a black hole radiates should be about a billionth of that of the background radiation left over from the Big Bang itself. Mimicking black holes: Dr Hawking's bright idea 2010-09-30T10:54:00Z A nanosecond — a billionth of a second — is to a second as one second is to 30 years, roughly. Gauging High-Speed Spin Inside a Lilliputian World 2010-09-27T21:31:00Z It looks like I posted the 20 billionth tweet. Twitter reaches 20 billion tweets 2010-08-02T00:39:00Z As it prepared for the Casual Connect conference this week, Seattle's Big Fish Games took a break Thursday to celebrate its billionth game being downloaded from its game portal. Big Fish Games toasts its billionth download 2010-07-19T00:26:00Z The ECX recently traded its 3 billionth tonnes of climate warming carbon dioxide, and now accounts for 99 percent of all futures trading in European Union carbon permits. ECX CEO to leave emissions exchange within 3 months 2010-07-09T15:42:00Z In this state, each atom’s quantum wave-function—its effective size—extends several billionths of a metre from its nucleus. Quantum computing: A quantum hop 2010-06-24T11:19:00Z Scarily, it did not take much estrogen to affect the fish — just 5 or 6 nanograms, or billionths of a gram, per liter of lake water. Flushed Away: How Dangerous Are the Drugs in Our Water? 2010-04-02T18:30:00Z It is just two months since Twitter's 15-billionth tweet and only five months since the ten billionth, which took four years to reach. Twitter reaches 20 billion tweets 2010-08-02T00:39:00Z One nanometer is a billionth of a meter. Toshiba to make sub-25nm flash memory: Nikkei 2010-04-02T03:57:00Z Standing with me on the Prime Meridian in Greenwich, England, this winter — contemplating atomic clocks, accurate to billionths of a second — my father idly said: “I’m surprised the N.C.A.A. doesn’t use one yet.” How to Improve the N.C.A.A. Tournament 2010-04-01T23:44:00Z They are essentially semiconductor particles about a nanometer — or a billionth of a meter — in size. An Exotic Technology May Be a Big Leap for Cellphone Cameras 2010-03-22T04:25:00Z Stronger than FM radio signals, these RF waves are still a billionth the intensity of known carcinogenic radiation like X-rays. How Safe Is Your Cell Phone? 2010-03-09T18:45:00Z This happened in bubbles smaller than the nucleus of an atom, which lasted only a billionth of a billionth of a billionth of a second. 2010-02-15T22:23:00Z However, the beams delivered their energy in pulses lasting a little more than 10 billionths of a second. 2010-01-28T19:10:00Z Nanotechnology is the use of very small particles - measured in the billionths of a metre. 2010-01-08T00:16:00Z “Not even in the Council––” “Dearest, it doesn’t make the difference of the billionth part of a counterfeit Russian rouble.” Rope Just as a billion, minus the billionth fraction of a unit, is no longer a billion, so infinity itself, limited though it be but by a hair's-breadth, is no longer, strictly speaking, infinite. Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive Pride is the only lever that will move him the billionth fraction of an inch; and he would never risk the possibility of being publicly mortified by his ward's failure. Infelice Sir William Thompson thinks he has proved that a cubic mile of celestial ether may have as little as one billionth of a pound of ponderable matter. Among the Forces "No," replied Barbicane, "because the terrestrial atmosphere absorbs four-tenths of the solar heat; besides, the quantity of heat intercepted by the earth is but a billionth part of the entire radiation." From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon With his eleven hundred million billionth sunset, or thereabouts, His Majesty held a man and a woman who had met on the roof of the world in thrall. Over the Pass |
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