You're the captain of a massive tub of a ship, a real clunker, but through the standard video game space activities of mining, trading, and bounty hunting — or the outlaw versions, in which you kill miners and traders for their goods and battle government forces — your earned or ill - gotten spacebucks pave the way to better cannons,
more powerful lasers, and improved engines, boosters, and shields.
Berkeley Lab researchers have won two grants from the DOE and NCI that focus on particle beam - based therapies for treating cancer as well as on building faster,
more powerful lasers for accelerators.
Over the next few years it was upgraded in order to boost its sensitivity - its noise being reduced, in part, thanks to
more powerful lasers, better isolation of the mirrors, as well as mirrors that are both bigger and more highly reflective.
Now, researchers are broadening the potential applications of even smaller and
more powerful lasers.
To move on to other atoms and molecules will require
more powerful lasers with shorter pulses, of the type used in coherent control chemistry, so the future of this method is very promising.»
Now, Alexander Fedotov of the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute in Russia and his colleagues have calculated that
more powerful lasers set to be built in the next decade could create millions of pairs in a chain reaction.
So far, this drastic increase in speed takes about 5 to 10 minutes to trigger with the 150 - watt mercury lamp the researchers used, but Leigh says
more powerful laser pulses could set off turbo boosts in a microsecond or less.
«One important possible application of this work is in creating
a more powerful laser system than existing technologies allow,» Soljači?
Not exact matches
Meanwhile in February the U.S. - government funded National Ignition Facility (NIF) in California, known for housing the world's most
powerful laser, reported experiments indicating they were close to achieving «net gain,» where
more total energy comes out than was put in — a goal that has eluded scientists for six decades.
Besides making
lasers more powerful, researchers also want to make them shoot faster.
As they fall deeper into the dark between the stars, the light sails would attempt to transmit their precious findings back to Earth using
laser beams no
more powerful than the signal from a typical cell phone.
It's the stuff of science fiction: robots that can hunt down and kill humans,
powerful lasers that can destroy targets without leaving a trace, and a weapon that can supposedly knock you down without even touching you — all of these, and
more, came one step closer to reality in 2008.
With an output of 50 watts — 1000 times
more powerful than a typical handheld unit — the
laser is tuned to sodium atoms» strong yellow emission at 589 nanometres.
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lasers can also be made to emit beams with specially engineered shapes (spiral, donut or bell curve)-- called vector beams — which could enable increasingly
powerful computers and optical communication systems that can carry up to 10 times
more information than existing ones.
Known as the National Ignition Facility, the proposed
laser is a giant, much
more powerful than any
laser that has ever been built before.
DARPA is looking at
more efficient technologies, like fiber
lasers and liquid
lasers, which could lead to smaller,
more compact devices, while the Navy is researching a Free Electron
Laser, an experimental technology that uses high - speed electrons to generate an extremely
powerful focused beam of radiation.
This could potentially create a sound wave 50 times longer and allow the
lasers used to be 100 times less
powerful — and less energy intensive — thereby delivering
more data
more quickly at a lower cost.
The result brings the tiny flakes, called nanocrystals, a crucial step closer to fulfilling their promise of tailoring a
laser's color just by changing the size of the crystal, which could lead to
more powerful tools for detecting chemicals or sending information via flickers of light.
Along with the change of
laser size, the researchers also adjusted the magnetic material through which the light travels and amplifies to a
more powerful pulse.
Goto and his team used Q switching, along with a
laser a tenth of the size of an American penny, to produce a
laser beam ten times
more powerful than previously reported with a larger
laser.
The effort could lead to a next generation of
more powerful, versatile, compact, and durable X-ray
lasers.
The world's most
powerful X-ray
laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), is about to get far
more powerful.
They open a way to
more complete astrophysical experimentations in the laboratory using the most
powerful Megajoule
lasers as the National Ignition Facility (NIF) or
Laser MegaJoule (LMJ).
Researchers have combined these structures to create nanophotonic counterparts of integrated circuits, as well as
more efficient solar cells, ultra-small
lasers and sensors, and
more powerful optical microscopes.
Allowing light output
more than two times as
powerful as LED alone, Audi says the
laser technology be used for the first time on this year's R18 Le Mans car.
But after years of resisting, I have now come around to the fact that Facebook is the most
powerful advertising platform around because of its
laser - targeting abilities and the fact that most readers are
more likely to be on Facebook than Twitter.
The sheer number of weapons in this game, such shotguns,
laser rifles and hand - cannons, is amazing and every new area I went into offered up a new weapon to try out keeping me pushing forward to find that next even
more powerful killing tool.
Players start off with a generic vessel, low - powered vessel, but as you blast your way through wave after wave of insectoids you will garner cash that can be exchanged for upgrades (faster fire rate, longer lasting
lasers, and
more durable shields) and even new, progressively
more powerful ships.
Instead of explosions, zombies and the need for a
powerful PC, ARVI has created simple puzzle experience called
Laser Puzzle in VR, which doesn't have the frills of Zombie Grenades Practice for a far
more focused and enjoyable puzzler.
Others, like the continuously firing
Laser and the long reaching and
powerful Meteor are
more expensive, with different firing ranges and uses, but are usually slower than the rest and must be complemented by smaller towers.
You unlock
more as you progress through the game, with each one feeling
more powerful or unique than the last — you might start off with basic weapons, but eventually you'll have
powerful shotguns, machine guns, grenade launchers, sniper rifles, flame throwers, and even
lasers.
Use materials crafted and salvaged on the surface to outfit and upgrade space fighters with a selection of
powerful lasers, plasma cannons, shields and
more to become the terror of the nebula!
You can also use blueprints to unlock various weapons including
more powerful cannons,
lasers, and missiles for your fleet of fighters, scouts, and gunships.
Players must manage a tank of guppies and other aquatic creatures, each stage begins with two guppies in the tank or one breeder which creates guppies.Guppies and other fish drop money, which can be collected by the player and used to purchase fish food and upgrades, such as
more aquatic creatures,
more filling food, and
powerful lasers to repel attackers.Each creature must be kept alive by feeding, whether through fish food bought by the player or other species of fish in the tank.