By keeping
the light flash brief and the light extra dim, the scientists ensured that just some molecules activate.
Not exact matches
Xenon's attractive property is that it gives off a
brief flash of
light if a WIMP bumps into the nucleus of one of its atoms.
«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.
But solar flares — the
brief, intense
flashes of
light caused by the sun's magnetic fields changing shape suddenly — couldn't be causing the heating because none were observed.
But illumination of the network with a
brief flash (10 milliseconds) of blue
light causes each of these bacterial photoreceptors to jolt their host cell a bit.
Then, toward sundown, the aging Chevy Suburban in which she and four colleagues are riding erupts in a
brief, poltergeist - like spectacle — with door locks jumping up and down and multiple dashboard warning
lights flashing simultaneously.
They claim their newly patented device can render an assailant helpless with a
brief flash of high - intensity
light.
In the journal Optical Materials Express, from The Optical Society (OSA), the researchers reported that graphene oxide sheets treated with
brief exposure to bright
light in the form of a camera
flash exhibited reversible bending at angles from zero to 85 degrees in response to switching the relative humidity between 33 and 86 percent.
The animals were trained to focus their visual attention on a wall in the testing chamber with five ports and to respond to a
brief flash of
light within one port by poking their nose into that port.
«The game to see the
light from these catastrophic mergers is on,» says Mansi Kasliwal, assistant professor of astronomy and the leader of the Caltech effort to search for electromagnetic emission from gravitational waves using the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory, a robotic survey for astrophysical transients (
brief, intense
flashes of
light), and a network of other telescopes.
Each attack may be preceded by a
brief aura in which
flashing lights appear off to the side, or vertical zigzag striping is seen in the visual field.
It can act as a smart alarm clock that can also turn your
lights on and off, watch a video
flash briefing, show your commute time, get the weather, or show your calendar.
Intelligent assistants do a pretty good job of owning the morning already by serving up
flash news
briefings and control of Internet of Things devices to turn on the
lights, lift the blinds, and start the coffee maker.