Sentences with phrase «for flashes of light»

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

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Two ominous signs are flashing a red light for one very important area of the market, and that could mean trouble down the line for equities.
Now, of course you can make yourself memorable by perfectly executing a magic trick, blasting your walk - on song (mine is Kelly Clarkson's «Miss Independent») or flashing the lights for a strobe - like effect.
As for the lights that line the armband, with the press of a button you can choose to turn them off, have them on steadily, or have them on and flashing for increased visibility.
Ten minutes later the lights flash again and it's back to work for the 90 employees in the Boston office of Eze.
There's little sign of the technology visible to customers, except for black boxes, cameras and a few tiny flashing green lights in the darkened, open ceiling above.
Some of them are just now swelling and splitting underground; others are breaking through the surface with a garish flash of green; others are meandering toward the sun, desperate for light or rain or some sort of trellis; others are growing slow and steady into tall shade tress with limbs like arms wide open to the world, welcoming the birds of the air to nest in their branches.
I am not ashamed because there are all these little mustards seeds scattered across our broken, shameful world, some of them just now swelling and splitting underneath the dark soil; others breaking through the surface with a garish flash of green; others meandering toward the sun, desperate for light or rain or some sort of trellis; others growing slow and steady into tall shade tress with limbs like arms wide open to the world, welcoming the birds of the air to nest in their branches.
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.
Rather than using a temperature readout, which can be hard to read on top of being inaccurate, this device employs a color - coded flashing LED light sensor: green for medium rare, yellow for medium and red for medium well.
Look at the beautiful work of art you created and, if the lighting is right, take a picture for Instagram (remember not to use the flash!).
It includes plenty of lights flashing, which is race driver code for «Get the hell out of my way!»
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.
judging by the subtitles, the second gif is a gif of the music video for Kanye West's «Flashing Lights»
Wenger did not miss Ashley Williams, he bought Holding because he is cheaper and another «yes boss» type of player... We got Chambers for # 16millions, and he talks about knowing the market, he could not find his way in or out even if he had a gun to his head and a flash light stuck to his balls.
Late in the match, everyone in the stadium pulled out their phones and flashed their camera lights in the air to show unity for the team, with hopes of rallying them to victory.
Fans of the opposing team often travel to catch a game on the Strip, where the bright lights and signs for blackjack, keno, all - you - can - eat buffets, and girlsgirlsgirls flash all day and all night.
I think the crank flash lights have stronger beams of light and hold a charge a little longer between cranks and would be a safer for a child to use.
You can not sing to your baby, dangle toys and flash lights, and even if you can do all that, it can be very tiring at the end of it because you will have to do it for long periods.
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 placFor 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 placfor 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.
If you do have toys with flashing lights, use them in moderation and monitor baby closely for signs of fussiness and visual avoidance.
Complete with an array of colorful and attention getting toys, this unit also offers side trays for snacks, hanging characters, flashing lights, exciting sounds, and padded rails for the ultimate in baby entertainment.
Kids can beep the horn, flash the signal lights and steer the wheel for hours of role play fun.
The plan for policing J'Ouvert — a Caribbean festival meaning «day break» that is observed in the very early morning of Labor Day to celebrate the start of carnival — includes officially issuing a permit for the event for the first time ever, flooding the neighborhood with about 200 portable light towers and parking more patrol cars with lights flashing in the area to deter those who may want to do harm, said NYPD Chief of Department James O'Neill.
Amplifiers for the University of Rochester's OMEGA - EP, lit up by flash lamps, could drive a U.S. high - power laser.
Such pointing capability could prove crucial for finding flashes of light that accompany the pulses of gravitational waves.
Flashes of X-ray light near the center of the disk result in light echoes that allow astronomers to map the structure of the funnel - like flow, revealing for the first time strong gravity effects around a normally quiescent black hole.
It pumps 20 liters (about 5.3 gallons) of seawater and plankton per second through a «light tight» collection chamber large enough to capture even fast swimmers and keep them inside long enough for the device's fiber - optic instruments to record and measure, in photons per liter, the size, duration, and number of an organism's flashes.
«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.
Then they'd show a red or yellow light to signal which of two different grips to use for each, and then flash a green light to signal that the grip should begin.
With their long strings of light - detecting devices, lowered into deep water or ice to wait for the telltale flashes that signal a neutrino, none of them looks remotely like a conventional telescope.
For example, the flash of light lasts an incredibly short time, a few tens of trillionths of a second.
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.
Looking for a new way to approach the problem, Yue's team bound calcium ions in molecular «cages» that could be opened with a flash of light.
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.
The abrupt metal - insulator transition that we investigated could also be forced to take place under influence of, for example, a light flash, which could find applications for better isolating the computational units of quantum computers.»
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.
It didn't take long for her to confirm that the flashing was not, as most people assumed, a form of bioluminescence — a chemical reaction inside animals like plankton that produces light similar to that of a glow stick.
Art galleries around the world ban flash photography for fear that the intense light could wash the colour out of their old masters.
For instance, an hour of light 1000 lux has the same effect as ten hours at 100 lux or two flashes.
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.
Built in a zinc mine near Hida, Japan, the Super-Kamiokande (Super-K) experiment has been searching for telltale flashes of light in a 50,000 - ton tank of the purest water on Earth since 1996.
The temperature at that central point skyrockets above 10,000 degrees Celsius, the pressure zooms to 10,000 atmospheres and a flash of light emerges for just a few picoseconds.
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.
Hundreds of photomultiplier tubes watch for the flashes of Cherenkov light at the bottom of Lake Baikal.
Artificial eyes deep below the surface of the lake look for dim flashes of blue light caused by a rare collision between a neutrino and a molecule of water.
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