From these minuscule shifts, the team estimated that the planet is about three times the mass of Jupiter, and orbits its star at a distance slightly greater than that between Mars and the sun.The researchers reckon that the planet was once at a distance roughly equal to that of the Earth from the sun, and that when it expanded, the red giant star would have encompassed some 70% of that distance.
In theory it might sound simple, but in practice it's pretty mind-bending, especially in Reich's Piano Phase, where the second player must gradually make the minuscule rhythmic shift from one semiquaver to the next, before locking into the next note in the pattern.
Corals are highly sensitive to even minuscule temperature shifts, and a prolonged increase of just 1 degree Celsius above normal for a few weeks can cause bleaching.
The cellular industry's long pursuit of ever-more minuscule phones has shifted into reverse, giving rise to bulkier wireless handsets with larger color screens and small versions of standard qwerty-style computer keyboards to send e-mail and instant messages.
Now, the attention has shifted to minuscule grains of the iron mineral magnetite, the same sorts of particles that some earthly bacteria form in long chains to act as a magnetic compass.
People like me, who care most about democratic institutions, become less concerned by major policy shifts because they seem minuscule and irrelevant by comparison to threats to democracy itself.
While electric cars are still a minuscule slice of the auto market, the market continues to shift in larger ways, according to a new report.
Break the task into small minuscule tasks.
Eska, with cinematographer Yasu Tanida, makes the most of a minuscule budget — letting the camera linger on the land, letting the tone shift as the characters move into frame.
