Sentences with phrase «much smaller light»

What's needed now is a new national commitment to the development, testing, demonstration, and early stage commercialization of a broad range of new nuclear technologies — from much smaller light - water reactors to next generation ones — in search of a few designs that can be mass produced and deployed at a significantly lower cost than current designs.

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Using special equipment, they will embed electromagnets under the road, which will wirelessly charge a much smaller, lighter, and cheaper battery under the vehicle (see the video above).

Thanks to its light weight, it won't add much burden to your luggage, and it can also be folded up tight and packed down small, fitting into just about any bag you bring along, even including a briefcase or backpack.

They are much smaller, dimmer and cooler than stars like our Sun, and for a long time scientists searching for life on other worlds paid little attention to them; the general feeling was that they gave out so little heat and light, compared with the Sun, that they were unlikely to host habitable planets.

It may look Instagram - perfect, but we promise it's a cinch to make, and a very small amount of olive oil (versus larger quantities of vegetable oil in typical fried rice recipes) makes this much lighter than takeout fare.

This cream carries the tangy margarita flavor much better, and with a fairly small amount of cream and sugar per serving, it can still be considered light.

I slid a small spoonful of the light custard on my plate and before I knew it, I pretty much ate half of the bowl.

In addition to being much smaller, desi - type beans are darker (light tan to black in color) and more irregular in shape.

Myths like the idea that lifting even small, light weights will make you bulk up too much (it won't), or that crunches are the ultimate key to washboard abs (there are much more effective exercises out there).

Funny, I just made a small batch in my Ninja too (I needed date paste and only had about a cup of dates left) and found that it came out much lighter in color than it usually does.

Whilst centre - backs and defensive midfielders are probably the first players that spring to mind when you think of strength and endurance, there are a number of smaller — much lighter — attacking players who aren't afraid of a tussle.

The small size and light weight of a bassinet makes it much easier to place in your bedroom as opposed to a crib.

For totally wild but nondestructive pillow fights, make a set of 12 small lightly stuffed pillows about 9 inches square — they'll be easier for your toddler to heft and too light to break much of anything.

This rear facing seat is light weight, comfortable, approved to 25 kg (55 lbs), has passed the Plus Test to 25 kg, has good sleep position and will fit well in pretty much any car small to large.

This rear facing seat is light weight, comfortable, approved to 25 kg (40 lb), has passed the ultra strict Swedish Plus Test to 25 kg, has good sleep position and will fit well in pretty much any car small to large.

This rear facing seat is light weight, comfortable, approved to 25 kg (55 lbs), has passed the ultra strict Swedish Plus Test to 25 kg, has good sleep position and will fit well in pretty much any car small to large.

Gibraltar and the Isles of Scilly are due in soon, but their small voter numbers won't shed much light on the national picture.

And the relatively small - scale fixes they entail would be a much lighter lift politically than a full - time Legislature or public financing of political campaigns (the other go - to solution of goo - goos).

Planets revealed to be small and heavy must be made mostly of rock or metal whereas worlds seen to be large and light must possess much more gas.

They found that only morning glory seeds germinated after being exposed to light roughly 6 million times the dose typically used to sterilize drinking water, conditions that killed the much smaller tobacco and A. thaliana seeds.

They were able to show that when growing the corresponding mutant from arabidopsis under conditions of light for a few hours, the leaves became much smaller.

If even a small amount of energy from phonons (the sound units that carry the energy through the germanium or silicon, much as photons are the units of light) hit the detector, it can be enough to make the device lose superconductivity and register a potential dark matter event through a device called a superconducting quantum interference device, or SQUID.

And waterways such as the Mississippi and the Missouri have smaller, lighter sediments which can be moved around much more easily.

An optical lens can deflect a light beam into a much smaller area of space; a time lens deflects a section of a light beam into a smaller chunk of time.

Optic phonons, or crystal vibrations that can be excited with infrared light, can also be used to confine light to dimensions much smaller than the wavelength of light, while maintaining record - high efficiencies.

«If we are able to convert light, which is electromagnetic energy, into motion, or convert motion into electrical energy, then we have the potential to make molecular devices much smaller,» he said.

By adjusting the width of the honeycomb cells to make them much smaller in diameter than the wavelength of visible light, the researchers kept the coating from reflecting light.

This quasar is only slightly smaller than the previous distance record - holder, which weighs as much as 2 billion suns and whose light is 12.9 billion years old, emitted when the universe was just 770 million years old (SN: 7/30/11, p. 12).

We train our telescopes on small patches of sky for long spells, trying to drink in as much faint light from distant objects as possible.

To help do that, the U engineers created a much smaller form of a polarization beamsplitter (which looks somewhat like a barcode) on top of a silicon chip that can split guided incoming light into its two components.

Making metamaterials for shorter wavelengths such as visible light is more difficult because it entails making elements much smaller than a micron, approaching the sizes of components on modern computing chips.

To reach the smallest space conceivable, they decided to reduce the gap between the metal and graphene as much as possible to see if the confinement of light remained efficient, i.e. without additional energy losses.

Recently, investigators have discovered a similar effect with much smaller vibrating objects excited by light waves.

This effect, however, is small because the wavelength of light is much longer than the size of a molecule: the light's corkscrew is too big to sense the molecule's chiral structure efficiently.

It will look in infrared wavelengths, so small asteroids that don't reflect much visible light can be seen via their heat.

About 4,500 light - years away in the direction of the constellation Monoceros, the nebula is large enough to be visible through small telescopes; if it were bright enough in the visible spectrum it could be seen by the naked eye, occupying several times as much of the sky as the full moon.

On average, material blasted across Mercury's surface by relatively recent impacts of comets, asteroids, and other small bodies reflects only two - thirds as much light as freshly excavated material on the moon, previous studies have shown.

Microlensing works on a much smaller scale: Individual stars or planets focus the light of more distant stars, making the background star appear to grow brighter and then dim again.

They developed the dongle to be small and light enough to fit into one hand, and to run assays on disposable plastic cassettes with pre-loaded reagents, where disease - specific zones provided an objective read - out, much like an ELISA assay.

What could blast out so much light and radiation from such a small space?

At present, lenses and mirrors can not focus light into a beam much smaller than the light's wavelength — 500 nanometres for blue - green lasers.

An atom that interacts with light waves is always much smaller than the wavelength.

After evolving for 10 billion more years, this protocluster would today be a mature galaxy cluster perhaps only one million light years across, having collapsed down to a much smaller area, Prochaska said.

«It replaces a technology much like vacuum tubes that has been used for decades to precisely detect small amounts of light.

These metamaterials incorporate components much smaller than the wavelength of light, which allows them to control the light waves and gives them optical properties beyond those...

By identifying length differences much smaller than the size of a proton, the experiment could in theory have spotted gravitational waves from merging black holes up to a few billion light - years away.

«Particles of any kind, even much smaller than the wavelength of visible light, will, as a rule, make the sky brighter but at the expense of its purity of color,» Bohren says, noting that the effect is more pronounced when there is a high concentration of large aerosols.

He says, however, expecting home furnishing to withstand a smaller cigarette lighter flame for 12 seconds is arbitrary and demands too much of a chemical that may have adverse health effects.

The nursery is 6200 light years from the galaxy's centre and spans 4400 light years, far larger than any in the Milky Way, even though the galaxy itself is much smaller than ours.

With much shorter wavelengths than photons of visible light, electron beams can be used to observe objects hundreds of times smaller than those that can be resolved with an optical microscope.