Sentences with phrase «eyes absorb light»

Vitamin A also helps your eyes absorb light, and it improves night vision.

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First, UV light is absorbed by the lens of your eye, which can cause cumulative damage over time like cataracts.

An awareness so acute and, because the eyes were supremely vulnerable, so absorbing that he had nothing to spare for the inner light or the horrors and vulgarities revealed by it.

Golden Rice is a strain that is genetically modified by molecular techniques (and therefore labeled a genetically modified organism or GMO) to produce β - carotene, a precursor of vitamin A. Vitamin A is an essential component of the light - absorbing molecule rhodopsin in the eye.

This important nutrient helps the eye retina absorb and process light.

They are high in antioxidants, specifically the carotenoids (like beta - carotene) and zeaxanthin (compound that absorbs blue light and helps protect the eyes).

And no matter how active and sweaty he gets, it has a light - weight, quick absorbing formula that won't run into his eyes.

Retinal cells contain three yellow pigments — lutein, zeaxanthin and meso - zeaxanthin — which absorb near - ultraviolet light, protecting the eye from its damaging effects and reducing glare.

In bird eyes, suitable radicals are believed to be generated within cryptochrome, a light - absorbing protein that produces an as - yet - unidentified signaling molecule in a quantity determined by the field direction, resulting in an avian magnetic compass.

Benzene, toluene, and other components of coal tar were colorless because they absorbed ultraviolet light undetectable by the human eye.

Unlike pigments, which create color by absorbing some wavelengths of light and reflecting the rest, the nanostructures are shaped so that they physically bend and scatter light in different directions, sending particular colors back to our eyes.

NASA's Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), slated for launch no earlier than 6:09 A.M. Pacific Standard Time on December 11, is charged with mapping the sky in the mid-infrared to create an atlas of objects whose emitted light is invisible to human eyes and largely absorbed by Earth's atmosphere.

Moth eyes absorb almost all incident light, thus reducing reflection that predators would notice.

The other, bigger problem is that to see, the eyes must absorb light — which, of course, makes them visible.

The structure of a protein normally found in the human eye has been altered so that it absorbs a type of red light that we can not normally see.

Since the ozone layer absorbs ultraviolet light from the sun, ozone layer depletion can lead to increased rates skin cancer, eye damage and other adverse consequences.

Then they calculated how much of that light the photoreceptors in the eyes of birds and insects would be able to absorb.

Nathans is a neuroscientist who studies how cells in the retina — the light - absorbing structure at the back of the eye, which is considered part of the brain — assume their correct identities, and how those cells respond to injury and disease.

Plants and algae use chlorophyll to absorb energy from the Sun to power photosynthesis at wavelengths up to 720 nm — which is in the red part of the light spectrum, at the limit of visibility to the human eye.

The green fluorescent pigment in the lenses of its eyes acts like a filter, absorbing the sea's ambient deep blue light.

Earth plants also absorb green light, but not as strongly, so leaves look green to the eye, having adapted to the conditions most commonly found around our Sun and on Earth's planetary surface.

Our eyes play a major role, because light carries a great deal of information about its source and about the objects that either reflect or absorb it.

(The pigment absorbs stray light in the eye, acting as a kind of glare shield.)

The light is absorbed in the process and its complementary color is observed by the human eye.

«A recent discovery is that light is absorbed through the melanopsin ganglion cells in the eye, which goes through the retina hypothalamic tract (RHT) and into the brain, stimulating the pineal gland,» Collings says.

Studies show that these compounds deposit in the retina, the light - sensitive portion of your eye, and absorb ultraviolet light that could damage your vision.

Astaxanthin deposits in the eyes to absorb blue light, which protects your eye cells from oxidative stress.

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«Under the eyes is ideal to use a very light translucent powder, such as L'Oréal Paris Infallible Pro-Sweep & Lock Translucent Powder because it has a silky texture that doesn't absorb into the skin's moisture as other powders do,» she says.

They work by absorbing and reflecting the blue light that causes eye strain.

It is a very light serum, once applied and massaged lightly into the skin, avoiding the eye area, it gets absorbed very quickly.

Instead of dabbing it gently until most of it has been absorbed, leave a light layer on the eye area and let it rest until the next morning.

Matte makeup absorbs light and allows the eye to see «into» the skin.

The light goes through this layer and is reflected towards the screen being absorbed by the dark elements of the image and then this reflected light enters the eyes.

The retina is a layer of cells in the back of the eye which absorbs light, and sends the appropriate electrical signals to the brain.

This structure — the tapetum lucidum — reflects light not absorbed by the retina during its first passage through the eye, thus giving the light a second chance to be absorbed and transmitted to the brain.

«This is a reflective layer so light that is not absorbed by photoreceptors gets bounced back and forth in the back of the eye to give it another chance at being recognized,» Ryder says.

With the sort of light that deserves to have a few moments taken to stop, breathe it in, and absorb the possibility it brings; to make a memory of the way the sun dances across the sea, sprinkling it with gold; to relish the cool that blurs the horizon; to squint your eyes into the gentle mist which offers the promise of the hot day ahead.

Minutes after rolling my eyes at the Good Prepper, Dutch, I was absorbed in trying to find one of the game's new hidden caches, light environmental puzzles that did more for me than I expected.

It may finally be absorbed in the eye of alien a thousand light year away.

Technically, black is the absence of color since it absorbs all the light shining on it and does not reflect any back to the eye; therefore the eye does not see any color when viewing black objects.