Sentences with phrase «flashes of light from»

The modeling showed that basketball - sized eyes could detect whales amid flashes of light from more than 120 meters away — giving the squid enough of an edge to make a quick exit.

Inaugurated in 1991 to search for flashes of light from gamma - ray bursts — enigmatic explosions mostly seen in very distant galaxies — it never found one and was eventually shut down.

One day that may be all it takes: Townes, a Nobel laureate at UC Berkeley, notes that flashes of light from planets around stars within 50 light - years could even grow bright enough for the naked eye to see.

Scientists at Northwestern University announced in April that they had recorded flashes of light from human eggs that may be an indicator of egg quality.

Then the presence of Christ, which has been silently accruing in all things, will suddenly be revealed like a flash of light from pole to pole.

It sounds like the stuff of a Harry Potter film, in which the wizard has his cracked spectacles fixed with a flash of light from a magic wand.

The flash of light from lightning within clouds is hard to detect and most monitoring stations are located on land.

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There were flashing lights, and «The Age of Aquarius,» the Fifth Dimension's hit song from the musical Hair, exploded just as the drapes fell to reveal a pair of boxy, upright RVs.

And that's where the next clever step comes in - to scan the retina without the use of a huge machine, the app uses a simple 3D - printed lens that concentrates light from the smartphone camera flash on the back of the eye.

The man underwent emergency surgery when he began suffering from sudden flashes of light and discovered that the retina in his left eye had become detached.

The red tail - lights from the car in front of you flashes on and off during your rush hour commute.

The spotlight technique which Manet borrowed from Spanish Baroque painters has the effect of the cold flash of a press photo or the glaring light of a morgue.

It is as though empirical theologians accepted Whitehead's claim that, apart from the consolations of religion, life seems to be «a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience» (SMW 192).

Apart from religion, Whitehead was to write, «human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience.»

The truth, which in the same writer's Gospel, shines as the dayspring from on high, becomes here a search - light, flashed into a background of darkness.»

Apart from the religious vision, he added, «human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience.»

The account in Acts 9 relates that as Paul was on his way to Damascus to continue his persecution of the early Christians, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him, he fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying, «Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?»

For as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of man be in his day.

As a fan of Ed's, she had been cutting lights (practicing starts) for years from the bleachers, punching down her thumb on the grandstand railing a split second before the green light flashed.

In the bottom of the eighth Frank Martinez, 40, was ejected from his seat behind home plate after Braves shortstop Edgar Renteria complained to umpires that Martinez was flashing a light in his eyes.

One pitcher he knew of introduced himself to new batters by turning his back, removing flash paper from his pocket, inserting it into his glove, lighting it, and throwing his pitch.

The British cameras carefully record the Blast's huge, simulated soccer ball, flashing and exploding as it descends from the roof of the Civic Center before each game, while rock music blares and laser lights speckle the full house of wideeyed Baltimoreans.

Everything about school bus transportation is geared towards optimal safety, from the bright yellow color, flashing lights and sturdy construction of the buses to the training and skill of school bus drivers.

A new observatory called ABISS that can transmit video and long - term chemical measurements at broadband speeds from the seafloor using a system of flashing lights instead of a traditional tether.

The full - featured remote control lets you select the color you want from a panel of buttons, as well as dim the lights or set them to strobe, fade, flash, or cycle through.

The Venus Express spacecraft, which orbited Venus from 2006 until earlier this year, detected flashes of infrared light coming from the planet's surface.

In De luce, Grosseteste proposed that the universe began with a flash of light, which pushed everything outwards from a tiny point into a big sphere.

They also flashed lights into their tiny participants» eyes, played them single tones from an mp3 player attached to a pair of speakers and touched their feet gently.

Strogatz explores dozens of strange synchronous phenomena, from hands clapping in unison to the rhythmic flashing of fireflies to laser beams produced by trillions of atoms emitting light waves in phase at the same frequency.

From her graduate study of dinoflagellates, Widder knew that an animal's first flash is the brightest and that to obtain clear readings, the creature must be stimulated and contained long enough to measure all the light given off.

He's done so by precisely focusing infrared laser light to selectively ionize, or steal the electrons from, air molecules at the beam's focal point, generating a flash of bluish - white plasma.

Glowing orbs that drift through the air; blue - white sheets of light; sparks and flashes and flames licking up from the ground... all may be signs of disaster to come.

These names come from the fact that some species as adults emit flashes of light to attract mates, using special light - emitting organs in the abdomen.

The producers are biologists, the stars are minute crystals of proteins, and the stage lighting will come not from floodlights but repeated flashes of X-rays.

Piecing together clues about the colour, speed, and the power of these flashes, we conclude that this light is being emitted from the base of the black hole jet.

Tiny flashes of light picked up from the oil appear to be telling physicists that neutrinos have a mass.

In De luce, Grosseteste proposed that the concentric universe began with a flash of light, which pushed everything outwards from a tiny point into a big sphere.

There, shielded from most sources of contaminating noise, researchers have spent more than a year's worth of time looking for flashes of light emanating from WIMPs striking xenon nuclei.

The xenon's job is to light up, with a jolt of electrical charge and a faint flash of light caught by surrounding sensors, when a dark - matter particle collides with one of its atoms — and the gallons of water and mile of rock's job is to stop anything else from getting in and disturbing it.

Kubodera's videos, which captured 14 attack behaviors, showed that as a squid approached, it sometimes emitted a short flash from photophores (light - producing organs) on the tips of its arms, perhaps in an effort to blind its prey or to illuminate it for easier capture.

What I should see, he said — apart from a good personal - injury lawyer — was a flash of light in my field of vision on the side opposite the spot where I pressed.

The clues coming from the supermassive quasar OJ287 were periodic flashes of light, which were occurring less than two years apart every 12 years or so.

Philipp Morgner and Zinaida Benenson's team managed to make connected lighting systems of different manufacturers flash for several hours with a single radio command sent from a distance of more than 100 metres away.

A new genetic therapy not only helped blind mice regain enough light sensitivity to distinguish flashing from non-flashing lights, but also restored light response to the retinas of dogs, setting the stage for future clinical trials of the therapy in humans.

«While the light output from a photographic flash is high, it lasts only one thousandth of a second,» says Saunders.

She could find no other instance of animals using silica nanospheres as flashing reflectors, though the white color of several insects apparently comes from a layer of silica that reflects white light.

After firing flashes at samples of paper painted with water colours, Saunders found that the light from flashguns is no more harmful than the soft, controlled light of most galleries.

He said under nighttime and low - light conditions, there is insufficient light for a conventional camera to capture facial imagery for recognition without active illumination such as a flash or spotlight, which would give away the position of such surveillance cameras; however, thermal cameras that capture the heat signature naturally emanating from living skin tissue are ideal for such conditions.

When a low - energy neutrino or antineutrino from a supernova collides with a water molecule in the tank, the resulting light signal is recorded by about 100 of 13,000 photomultipliers, ultrasensitive light - detecting devices that turn a tiny flash of light into a larger recordable burst of electricity.

Through the lens, you could view flashes of light resulting from the collision of alpha particles against the screen during ore decay.