Sentences with phrase «jolt of electricity»

The pebbles are able to self - assemble using «electropermanent magnets,» whose magnetism can be switched on and off with jolts of electricity, allowing them to come together, communicate and share energy and then also fall apart quickly.

He leaps back and forth between Jamal in the game - show hot seat and Jamal in a different kind of hot seat, getting jolts of electricity from a fat interrogator: «Final answer?»

All it took was a few jolts of electricity to turn ordinary rats into roborats and for pundits to leap to the conclusion that ordinary humans would soon be transformed into robohumans.

This is why ultracapacitors, with their ability to release quick jolts of electricity and to absorb this energy just as fast, are ideal today as a complement to batteries or fuel cells in electric - drive vehicles.

However, the original focus of their work has shifted a little; they've recently discovered that their serum, combined with a neurological jump - start brought on by jolts of electricity, can bring the deceased back to life (paging Dr. Frankenstein... Dr. Frankenstein to the lab, please).

The real jolt of electricity came with our first Big Baseball Brawl of the season.

A groundbreaking study by Suthana and colleagues, published in 2012 the New England Journal of Medicine, found that people performed better on a memory task if their entorhinal cortex — a brain hub for memory and navigation — was given a low jolt of electricity during the task.

APPLYING jolts of electricity to the brain can prompt both the desire to move a limb and the sensation that you have just done so.

When activated, a wheelchair - mounted computer causes jolts of electricity to be sent to those electrodes in the hand, causing the muscles to contract.

«Imagine being able to watch as Edison turned on the first light bulb, or as Franklin received his first jolt of electricity.»

18 Cyborgs beware: Tadayoshi Kohno at the University of Washington recently hacked into a wireless defibrillator, causing it to deliver fatal - strength jolts of electricity.

Together, these findings suggested that controlling the brain might be a simple matter of delivering the right jolt of electricity to the right clusters of brain cells.

When the device senses these changes, it triggers a mild jolt of electricity that travels through a wire going up his neck.

Trundling their creation over to the local medical school, the pair applies a few generous jolts of electricity and voilà!

Synopsis: Chelios faces a Chinese mobster who has stolen his nearly indestructible heart and replaced it with a battery - powered ticker that requires regular jolts of electricity to keep working.

Researchers successfully broke into a pacemaker and were able to read confidential patient information and could have delivered jolts of electricity to the patient's heart.

But the shock collar operates with two contact points at the dog's neck that send a painful jolt of electricity through the animal's body.

Back in college, I also had those moments, like soft jolts of electricity that opened up future thinking for me.

They strapped electrodes to my wrist, cranked up a black dial on a frightening electronic device encrusted with switches and knobs, and shocked me repeatedly with jolts of electricity.

It was about the excitement, the power, the quick jolt of electricity he felt when the pretty tellers wilted at the sight of his gun.

All it took was a few jolts of electricity to turn ordinary rats into roborats and for pundits to leap to the conclusion that ordinary humans will soon be transformed into robohumans.

Reid's study leaves unanswered the question of how a jolt of electricity gets rid of hyperconnections.

While Gersbach has had success in cultured patient cells by using a jolt of electricity to punch holes in their membranes to deliver the CRISPR system, this strategy was not practical in a patient's muscle tissues.

Rather than transferring just the nucleus, the ABS workers fuse a whole donor cell with an enucleated (nucleus removed) egg cell, a process that is helped along with a jolt of electricity.

Even before a jolt of electricity was applied to animate its body, the cyborg twitched with signs of life.

They removed tumor cells from patients with metastatic kidney cancer and zapped them with a jolt of electricity to fuse them with dendritic cells.

Electroporation, which involves giving cells a jolt of electricity that opens up the cell membrane, is a more general approach but can be damaging to both cells and the material being delivered.

A single neuron fires off a jolt of electricity in response to a very specific trigger.

Like a jolt of electricity I yanked the bar up, it started to move but stalled on my shins, Craig yelled «UUPPP!!!»

Penny Dreadful, Season 3, Episode 5: Frankenstein adds a jolt of electricity to Dr. Jekyll's serum, and tests it on a patient.

Now add in a jolt of electricity.

The commercial sector could be getting a jolt of electricity from Nissan in late 2013.

When he began to discuss Anne Dodge's case, he sat up in his chair as if a jolt of electricity had passed through him.

You might be able to fix a dog guarding his food with a jolt of electricity, but you run the risk of his becoming even more agitated or worse: If he happens to be looking at your child when he receives a shock, he could become fearful of and aggressive towards children.

New Peggle Master / power - up: «Marina,» the electric squid, brings the number of Peggle Masters / power - ups to 11; her «Shockwave» effect arcs between the first peg hit and the bucket at the bottom, clearing all intervening pegs with a jolt of electricity

Photographer Barbara Kasten's work is like a jolt of electricity to the eye.

«It goes right to your heart and it's a jolt of electricity.