Sentences with phrase «emitting light into»

But Michael McAlpine at Princeton University and his colleagues have developed a 3D printer that can make a five - layered contact lens, one which emits light into the wearer's eyes.

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«The light that's emitted [from the screens] slips your neurotransmitters into an awake position,» she says.

Blue light emitted by your iOS, Android or Windows 10 device can trick your brain into thinking it's daytime even when it's not.

It seems smartphones offer a sleep - busting double whammy: both keeping the brain psychologically engaged and emitting «blue light» that inhibits our bodies» ability to relax into sleep.

When ATP comes into contact with the liquid - stable luciferase / luciferin reagent in the SystemSure's testing swap, light is emitted in direct proportion to the amount of ATP present.

According to Mercola.com, the blue light emitted from your device, computer, or television tricks your brain into thinking it's still daylight, so it doesn't begin melatonin production until it's dark.

Toys designed to emit light rays against the wall can help turn your baby's room into a fun and exciting scene that will keep him dazzled for hours.

It is super similar to those professional treatments as it emits light energy that penetrates deep into the skin to reach the hair root.

It was not until the detection of quasars, which allow astronomers to see the light emitted by matter falling into black holes, that we had evidence that they were real objects and not just mathematical curiosities predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativity.

Magnetic fields make the higher energy levels split into two new levels, so electrons dive from two different platforms and emit different particles of light.

In addition to emitting visible light, the stars also gave off ultraviolet (UV) radiation, which split the neutral hydrogen it encountered into electrons and protons — ionizing it once again, and thereby launching what researchers call the «epoch of reionization.»

These fluctuations correspond neatly to the 11 - year solar cycle, in which the Sun's rotation gradually winds up its magnetic field into contorted coils, giving rise to flares and sunspots that emit ultraviolet and X-ray light.

The hydrogen atoms fuse together into heavier and heavier elements and in the fusion process the star emits radiation in the form of light, that is, energy.

Inside the greenhouse the visible light is absorbed by the plants and soil and is converted into heat, which is then emitted by the plants and soil in form of infrared radiation.

From his voracious reading, he knew that a blue - light - emitting semiconductor device was the holy grail of optoelectronics, and he resolved to get into the fray.

Polymer optical fibers emit the shortwave light optimally if they are integrated into a satin fab - ric.

After catching the jellyfish with pool - skimming nets, he and a group of other scientists would pin them down with a fork and spin them across a razor's edge to slice off the light - emitting photo - organs, which would fall into a bucket in a translucent linguini heap.

From the development of the blue laser to high - efficiency, high - brightness, light - emitting devices and new age tailor - made polymers capable of a host of applications in biomedical, chemical, electronics, and opto - electronics, IMRE's research into next - generation materials is likely to catalyze new industries in Singapore

Instead of relying on light waves emitted by electrons, it would use radiation emitted when the nucleus is excited to a high energy state, and then drops into a lower energy state.

To turn this set - up into a nuclear clock, the team now needs to hit upon the precise frequency of light needed to excite the thorium - 229 nuclei — and observe the light emitted when it drops back in energy.

The eruption had also emitted ultraviolet light that reflected off interplanetary hydrogen gas and back into SOHO's cameras.

LiDAR is a method of mapping from the sky: An airplane - mounted device sends a constant pulse of laser light across a swath of terrain; precise measurements of how long it takes the emitted breams to bounce off surfaces are taken and translated into topographic data.

A fiber - optic probe emitting blue light was inserted into that area of the brain.

A plastic optical fiber collects the emitted light, which is converted into an electric signal that appears as an image on a computer screen, allowing scientists to track cells without limiting the rats» mobility.

In a proof - of - concept demonstration, eight pieces of the cut yarn battery were woven into a long piece that could power a belt containing 100 light emitting diodes (known as LEDs) and an electroluminescent panel.

For example, more light is emitted by affluent regions in Albania than by similar regions in Liberia, which means that differences between countries have to be taken into account.

Light - emitting diode (LED) streetlights often draw moths and other insects into small areas at night, setting a buffet for nocturnal predators, but certain aspects of the lights themselves might be rendering insects vulnerable in even more sinister ways, new research suggests.

Background Visible objects fall into two general categories: luminous objects (such as your computer monitor) that emit their own light and illuminated objects (your keyboard, for instance) that reflect light emitted by other sources.

«I'm into building devices,» says Sam Kendig, fiddling with an LED (Light Emitting Diode) strobe, while Stephanie Dalquist does calculus and Amrita Masurkar plays Boggle.

The researchers will extend a light - emitting probe into the soldiers» lungs that will record images of the fluorescence in the surrounding tissues.

When the electrons fall back into their initial state, they emit their excess energy as light.

This is useful for finding galaxies because while large clouds of dust will scatter or absorb visible light, they transform light emitted from the galaxies into infrared light.

The first stars emitted mainly optical and ultraviolet light, which today is stretched into the infrared by the expansion of space, so they should not contribute significantly to the CXB.

In fact, it's a kilometre - long string of shiny, bulbous detectors designed to look for flashes of light emitted by neutrinos smashing into the ice.

In a thermo - photovoltaic device, external heat causes the material to glow, emitting light that is converted into an electric current by an absorbing photovoltaic element.

In a thermo - photovoltaic device, heat from an external source (chemical, solar, etc.) makes a material glow, causing it to emit light that is converted into electricity by a photovoltaic absorber.

The expanding universe is taking these extremely distant galaxies away from us so fast that the light waves they emit are being stretched out — or Doppler - shifted — into the infrared part of the spectrum.

So thirsty are theorists for new insights into black holes and relativistic processes that, with each LIGO detection, observational astronomers have leapt into action to target those enormous patches of sky, hoping to see some afterglow or other emission of electromagnetic radiation — even though by definition the resulting larger black hole should emit no light.

Polymer LEDs (PLEDs)-- a form of the organic light - emitting - diode displays now going into extravagantly expensive, vanishingly thin televisions — are mere microns thick and pliable.

A lens focused light emitted from the atom into a moving image (black arrow).

This is a period when the early Universe emerged from its dark ages the Universe emitted no light before gravity condensed matter into the first stars and galaxies.

Every time you stroll outside you emit energy into the universe: Heat from the top of your head radiates into space as infrared light.

So for their current study, Bao's team decided to send the electronic pulses coming from the touch sensors to a light emitting diode, which converted them into a stream of pulses of blue light.

The PMTs look for light emitted when a neutrino smashes into water.

Light Work Light - emitting diodes are making their way into everyday life [see «In Pursuit of the Ultimate Lamp»; SciAm, February 2001].

Vertical strings of detectors frozen into the ice watch for flashes of blue light emitted when neutrinos strike.

HERMES is designed to analyse the light emitted by a distant star, breaking it down into a rainbow - like spectrum of colors.

The name arises from the fact that it can not emit light and thus appears black, and it traps all that falls into it, like a hole in space.

Two key properties of fluorophores that determine brightness are the extent to which the excitation light is absorbed and the efficiency by which absorbed photons are converted into emitted photons.

Recently, Vardeny and his colleagues coaxed a single semiconductor layer into emitting two different colors of light — at the same time.