A nit to pick: The front seat heat / ventilation knobs offer no indication they're on save
for a tiny light you can barely see during the day.
A team of researchers has fabricated a micron - scale device that deforms significantly under the force of light, a technology that could form the basis
for tiny light - actuated switches or filters in future optical devices.
As you may have guessed, the iPad mini jettisons its larger brother's 30 - pin connector
for a tiny Lighting port.
Not exact matches
We're talking high - power twin motors with differential thrust
for optimal steering, a hot - swappable, USB - rechargeable 3.7 - volt lithium polymer battery (to juice three - minute flights max, meh, not so awesome), bright LED night
lights for nocturnal excursions, a
tiny onboard camera
for capturing high - res aerial video, and, well, you get the the picture.
Tiny deodorant «My wife jokes that if awards were given
for light packing, I would be a world champ.
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.
All an evolutionary storyteller has to do is to start with the apparently simplest version, ignore the neural equipment that has to be present
for an organism to make any use of a «photon receptor,» and spin a charming tale about how a
tiny primitive
light - sensing cell might grow up to be a full - fledged eye.
There were no windows except
for a few chapels in which
tiny holes in the ceiling that had been bored to let in the
light of certain stars at particular times of the year.
Like so many of us, I've learned to
light my candles
for the days when life is a little unsatisfying, like I learned to sing old childhood songs while I bath all the
tinies.
Except, instead of
lighting a bonfire (I don't think my neighbors would've appreciated it), I
lit a
tiny celebratory candle and gave thanks to the God of sugar
for such a wonderfully sweet year.
For broths and
light soups, select from a large assortment of
tiny shapes.
I can't hardly get any decent
lighting for my photography and the kitchen is super
tiny to accommodate my cooking and baking... Oh well, I guess it could be worse so let me stop complaining!
I put them in
tiny cupcake papers
for presentation with a
light sprinkle of powdered sugar.
And maybe add a
tiny splash (I'm talking 1/4 teaspoon or less) of lemon juice
for that
light (but welcome) sour kick.
They are fed organic food and live in a similar environment to their ancestors, whereas conventionally grown animals can be raised in
tiny indoor cages, like battery hens,
for example, or pigs in sow stalls or gestation crates, with little or no room to move and no exposure to natural
light.
Yet in spite of all our wishing and wanting and hoping
for time to freeze them in that perfectly small shape, they grow into these
tiny little humans — ones who sometimes — blissfully — still gift us fleeting reminders of the babies they once were: Like when their eyes catch the
light a certain way, and we remember the first time they opened them.
For the time being at least, the days of traveling
light are long gone... Just as I wondered how such a
tiny person would have so many things to quickly fill and clutter - up our
tiny city house, I also wondered how all of a sudden we have the same amount of luggage as J. Lo (except ours is not Louis Vuitton and we have to schlep it ourselves).
Being outside all day, then bringing a
tiny bit of it inside in time
for the evening
light, full of gratitude to the gardeners here before us who planted so many lovely things.
* Its natural, extra
light citrus flavor is perfect
for even the
tiniest taste buds & tummies.
Choose a sippy cup that is
light weight and easy
for tiny hands to handle.
Those occasional night feeds I now treasure,
for in the dimmed
light I hold this not - so -
tiny bundle like it's
for the last time.
Chris Keates: «In an otherwise bleak Autumn Statement a
tiny glimmer of
light emerged
for the thousands of agency workers, including supply teachers, who are an important and essential resource
for schools».
The surviving ideas range from a local company which makes stronger and
lighter steel to an Israeli company with a new method of testing
for cancer from a
tiny blood sample.
The innovative thing about OLEDs (
for organic
light - emitting diodes) is that lots of
tiny OLEDs can be «printed» onto a single big sheet, allowing engineers to make a digital display that uses less power than a plasma screen and offers higher contrast, a wider range of viewing angles, and richer colors than an LCD screen.
To look
for effects that can be due to things that on earth would mean nothing — the rebound due to the
light,
tiny little gas leaks potentially, gravity of other planets — it's very, very small.
Because of its amplification, the resonator can improve the performance of cameras looking
for tiny wisps of
light, such as those used in microscopes.
«Lens - free fluorescent microscope: FlatScope may be the world's
tiniest,
lightest microscope
for biological applications and beyond.»
In addition to being
light and flexible, it can extract electrical energy from human blood and sweat, making the device potentially usable as a power source
for tiny medical devices inside the human body.
Tabletop lasers focus
light with the power of 1,000 Hoover Dams onto a
tiny point
for applications from physics and fusion research to medicine
In their exploration of the submicroscopic world of atomic nuclei, physicists are like men groping in a dark cave with a flashlight that goes on
for only an instant and each time
lights only a
tiny corner of the cave.
It consists mostly of
light - sensing cells, but one tenth of a millimeter of its thickness is populated by image - processing circuitry that is capable of detecting edges (boundaries between
light and dark) and motion
for about a million
tiny image regions.
If certain areas of the brain that process visual information are activated — by a blow to the head,
for example —
tiny stars of
light appear.
Even
for electrons, the
lightest particles residing outside the atomic nucleus, quantum mechanics predicts that when exposed to
light, a
tiny but finite time interval to respond to the forces of
light is necessary.
Now, Arnold and his team at NYU Tandon's MicroParticle PhotoPhysics Laboratory
for BioPhotonics (MP3L) are the first to find a way to determine the density of charges on an area of a WGM micro-bead's surface, as well as the charge of an ensnared nanoparticle or virus, by measuring how
light frequency fluctuates as the
tiny particle follows its wobbly course around the sphere.
It offers new ways to miniaturize mechanical oscillators, improve communication systems that depend on the modulation of
light, dramatically amplify extremely weak mechanical and electrical signals and create exquisitely sensitive sensors
for the
tiny motions of nanoparticles.
Now, an optical whispering gallery mode resonator developed by Penn State electrical engineers can spin
light around the circumference of a
tiny sphere millions of times, creating an ultrasensitive microchip - based sensor
for multiple applications.
A
tiny silica bead next to the filament diverts a portion of the
light beam, which begins to resonate within the bead the way sound resonates under the dome of the church gallery
for which the phenomenon is named.
The best times to scan the skies
for these
tiny bursts of
light in North America will be on August 11 and August 12 during the late night and early morning hours.
IBM developed a technique
for making carbon nanotubes emit
light, paving the way
for new fiber optics; Harvard scientists figured out how to deposit
tiny wires on glass or plastic, opening the door
for the development of supercheap computers; and at the University of Central Florida, neuroscientist Beverly Rzigalinski discovered a nanomolecular fountain of youth effect: When Rzigalinski applied cerium oxide nanoparticles to rat neurons in a petri dish, the particles seemed to strip out the free radicals that make tissues age and kept the neurons alive and functioning up to six times their normal life span.
A team led by atomic physicist Lene Vestergaard Hau of the Rowland Institute
for Science and Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, found that
light moved 20 million times more sluggishly through the
tiny condensate than it does through a vacuum.
Tiny cages with nanowire bars could block
light from entering or exiting, but allow other materials through — which might be useful
for biomedicine
Under a powerful
light microscope, he looked
for tiny chips and abrasions on the edges of the arrowheads.
Based on the pioneering work of Dr. Claire Lugassy and Dr. Raymond Barnhill at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, a new study provides additional support
for a process by which melanoma cells, a deadly form of skin cancer, can spread throughout the body by creeping like
tiny spiders along the outside of blood vessels without ever entering the blood stream, and that this process is exacerbated by exposure to ultraviolet (UV)
light.
Quantum dots —
tiny lumps of a semiconductor — can emit
light of any colour and are used
for biological imaging, where they replace traditional, often toxic, dyes.
She understands,
for instance, that even a
tiny thing, like a harsh
lighting contrast, will startle cattle, stopping them in their tracks.
They all look very similar, but Eppinger is looking
for the
tiniest differences such as a dent, a scratch or a broken tail
light.
In five minutes, the scope collected a mere 11 photons of
light from the glow —
tiny but enough
for Swift's sensitive instruments to track the detonation with accuracy.
Christian Kuppe, the PhD student who conducted the experiments, said: «At the moment chiral sensing requires high molecular concentrations because you're looking
for tiny differences in how the
light interacts with the target molecule.
According to Fotini Koutroumpa, lead author of the study and researcher at the UvA's Institute
for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED), the results point to future research on the
tiny but complex moth brain, which will shed
light on how the diverse pheromone systems of the thousands of moth species has changed throughout evolution.
The Kinect senses 3 - D environments by spitting out thousands of
tiny infrared dots and then measuring the rebounding
light — exactly what they need
for this purpose, and at the price of $ 150.