Sentences with phrase «flashes of light when»

The narrow beams are seen as flashes of light when they sweep across our line of sight.

Each detector is a tank holding 12,000 liters of ultrapure water that produces a flash of light when struck by particles.

Rohr studies bioluminescent plankton that give off a flash of light when disturbed.

Eighteen years ago, a blind patient saw a similar flash of light when Mark Humayun, an ophthalmologist and biomedical engineer at the University of Southern California's Doheny Eye Institute, placed an electrode directly on the person's retina during surgery.

Not exact matches

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.

This one moment when you're driving down the road, the music is on loud, you tip your head back and the light is flashing between the trees, faster and faster, a blur of light and leaves.

In the midst of all that my mind did one of those random backflips — an out - of - the blue flash of intention then back to the present moment, which in this case was the view and the light — where I imagined making this salad when I got back home.

At 2 a.m., when a light flashed across one of his portholes, he suddenly realized he was not alone.

Rex Allen, the Singing Cowboy, was galloping into the Canadian Western Rodeo in Edmonton, Alberta, white hat held high and all that, when a flash of light blinded his horse.

To help mom solve some of the problems above like dry skin, gentler soap water temperature and more bonding time, they were each given a loot bag filled with a Garanimals Bath Thermometer (with Flashing red light and «hot «display alerts of unsafe water temperatures and illuminates when temperature is over 102 degrees F), plus Johnson & Johnson Baby Products like Head - to - Toe Baby Wash and Pink Baby Lotion.

For example, we make sure there is a stool for each child so that they can both use one when they need it, a flash light is beside the bed, cups of water are readily available, and favorite toys and books in accessible places.

When you turn on your Lamaze crib soother, a series of flashing lights and sounds immediately appear and the show begins!

Lots of baby monitors have a light display on the parent unit that flashes when sound is detected.

On his occasional use of flashing red lights, Freilich said: «I have the permission — only thing I go on calls is when I show up at MVAs (motor vehicle accidents) and deaths... kidnappings or negotiations.

When he saw flashing blue lights in his rearview mirror, he just drove faster, stopping only when another police car pulled in front of When he saw flashing blue lights in his rearview mirror, he just drove faster, stopping only when another police car pulled in front of when another police car pulled in front of him.

When they get a burst of electricity, «they think that this is an environmental stimulus, like a flash of light or a strong scent, and they use their reflexes to follow it or avoid it,» Bozkurt suspects.

An international team of physicists is preparing XENON100, a simple experiment with a huge ambition: to record the moment when a bit of dark matter — known as a weakly interacting massive particle, or WIMP — smacks into the nucleus of an atom of liquid xenon, triggering a flash of light and an electric charge.

While the effect is barely known to science, the researchers found that this «visually - evoked auditory response» (vEAR) is far more common than other types of synaesthesia — such when certain sounds elicit a specific colour — with flashing lights and motion evoking vivid sounds.

When this shower reaches HAWC's tanks, it produces coordinated flashes of blue light in the water, allowing researchers to reconstruct the energy and cosmic origin of the gamma ray that kicked off the cascade.

The beast apparently uses them to emit flashes of bright blue - green light when threatened.

When these gamma rays reach the Earth's atmosphere they are absorbed, producing a short - lived shower of secondary particles that emit weak flashes of bluish light known as Cherenkov radiation, lasting just a few billionths of a second.

They pass muon antineutrinos through the oil and look to see whether tiny flashes of light and gamma radiation are produced when electron antineutrinos interact with protons.

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.

The fabulous blue morpho uses its iridescence to its advantage: When a predator approaches, the butterfly can flutter its wings rapidly to create flashes of light that may startle the hunter.

Firing up the lasers When researchers attempt ignition, a bank of capacitors charges up and triggers a flash of light at the master oscillator that generates 192 laser beams.

Like existing ground - based gamma - ray observatories, the telescopes wouldn't detect gamma rays directly but would instead pick up the flashes of light given off when gamma radiation interacts with atoms in the upper atmosphere.

Researchers will use it to study the flashes of light given out when black holes, including the giant ones at the centers of galaxies, consume stars and other material.

Though the delicate touch I gave my eye yielded just one small flash, Wolfe said that when the eye is struck by something less forgiving — like a swinging door or Ira Blitz — many parts of the retina may be stimulated simultaneously, giving rise to a whole constellation of light.

When the tissue is rapidly rolled and unfurled by the clam, the reflecting light gives the appearance of flashing.

They're buried deep down in the ice, but they register the flashes of light that emitted when neutrinos interact with an atom and produces a new particle called a muon as the moon — muon travels through the ice, that's what lights it up.

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.

When a collision happens, a xenon atom will recoil and emit a tiny flash of light, which is detected by LUX's light sensors.

A handful of species behave more like strobe lights that can light up a forest when they flash in unison.

At about 4 A.M. local time, the main pumps feeding cooling water into Unit 2 failed and, due to confusion amidst the klaxon of alarms and flashing warning lights, the men operating the reactor made the situation worse when they mistakenly thought there was too much water in the core and shut off emergency pumps, thereby reducing further the amount of coolant reaching the reactor.

The South Pole detectors are looking for Cherenkov light emitted when muons hit the ice, and IceCube will be watching a cubic kilometer of ice for these ephemeral flashes.

In contrast, when the mice were made to pay attention to a sound and ignore the flash of light, researchers say TRN neurons that controlled vision were more active, suppressing the visual signals in order to pay more attention to the sound.

Lu's team settled on a biological program that rewrites a living cell's DNA when the cell senses a signal — from a flash of light to the presence of a chemical.

When neutrinos interact with electrons or nuclei of those water or oil molecules, they give off a flash of light that sensors can detect.

Karl Deisseroth, who pioneered optogenetics with Boyden, gave an early demonstration of its power when he flashed a blue light on a mouse's brain — the right motor cortex to be precise — and found that the animal ran in circles, anticlockwise.

In their research in mice, described in the journal Nature online Oct. 21, the investigators showed that TRN neurons, which have been previously implicated in the dampening of brain signals in people, were also less active when the mice were led to focus on — and respond to — a visual flash of light to get a milk reward.

To measure the number of electron - neutrinos reaching Earth, the SNO team monitored miniscule flashes of light produced when the particles interact with molecules of heavy waterin which deuterium atoms replace the hydrogen atoms.

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

But when the scientists took another took a look at the Galileo images, they saw something Sagan and his colleagues apparently missed — bright flashes of light over land as well.

They rarely interact with ordinary matter, but massive experiments have been set up to detect the flashes of light produced when they do.

When the shockwave reaches the surface of the star, a bright flash of light, called a «shock breakout,» is predicted.

Yet when a hungry predator or curious swimmer comes near, they display their secret weapon - a startling flash of light.

When the shock wave reaches the surface of the star, a bright flash of light, called a «shock breakout,» is predicted.

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When a dimly flickering checkerboard pattern flashed in front of a patient's recently treated eye, an area in the brain responsible for vision lit up during functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

When a star explodes into a supernova, it emits a flash of light that can appear brighter than a galaxy.