Sentences with phrase «brief flashes of light»
Xenon's attractive property is that it gives off a brief flash of light if a WIMP bumps into the nucleus of one of its atoms.
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The animals were trained to focus their visual attention on a wall in the testing chamber with five ports and to respond to a brief flash of light within one port by poking their nose into that port.
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«A prerequisite for capturing such a brief event is a light flash which can pull electrons — or to use the scientific term, polarize them — extremely quickly, and thus probe their response,» said Dr. Mohammed Hassan, a researcher in the group of Dr. Goulielmakis.
But solar flares — the brief, intense flashes of light caused by the sun's magnetic fields changing shape suddenly — couldn't be causing the heating because none were observed.
But illumination of the network with a brief flash (10 milliseconds) of blue light causes each of these bacterial photoreceptors to jolt their host cell a bit.
They claim their newly patented device can render an assailant helpless with a brief flash of high - intensity light.
In the journal Optical Materials Express, from The Optical Society (OSA), the researchers reported that graphene oxide sheets treated with brief exposure to bright light in the form of a camera flash exhibited reversible bending at angles from zero to 85 degrees in response to switching the relative humidity between 33 and 86 percent.
«The game to see the light from these catastrophic mergers is on,» says Mansi Kasliwal, assistant professor of astronomy and the leader of the Caltech effort to search for electromagnetic emission from gravitational waves using the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory, a robotic survey for astrophysical transients (brief, intense flashes of light), and a network of other telescopes.
Intelligent assistants do a pretty good job of owning the morning already by serving up flash news briefings and control of Internet of Things devices to turn on the lights, lift the blinds, and start the coffee maker.