Sentences with phrase «powerful beam in»

Bulbs diffuse their light in every direction, like audio, but a flashlight directs a more powerful beam in a more focused channel.

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In late December, he said, he had been struck by a strange, disturbing phenomenon — a powerful beam of high - pitched sound that seemed to be pointed right at him.

LIGO detects gravitational waves by splitting a powerful infrared laser beam in two, then sending the beams at right angles through tunnels to mirrors 2.5 miles away.

Three T6 LEDs provide a powerful beam of light that can reach up to 300 feet in total darkness.

Devices like this superconducting radio frequency cavity accelerate electron beams in the world's most powerful particle colliders and X-ray sources to nearly the speed of light.

Fermilab's Main Injector accelerator, one of the most powerful particle accelerators in the world, has just achieved a world record for high - energy beams for neutrino experiments.

This «exciting new collaboration,» says Ratan K. Sinha, nuclear engineer and director of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) in Mumbai, «will help bridge the gap» between less powerful Indian facilities and the goals of Indian scientists who are eager to carry out experiments with higher intensity beams.

The next goal for the laboratory's two - mile - around Main Injector accelerator — the final and most powerful in Fermilab's accelerator chain — is to deliver 700 - kilowatt beams to the laboratory's various experiments.

LIGO's detectors in Hanford, Wash., and Livingston, La., newly reactivated after five years of upgrades, each consist of a powerful laser that splits into two perpendicular, 4 - kilometer - long beams.

But the beams are so powerful «they break up molecules» in gases, says Yang Xueming, a physical chemist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences's (CAS's) Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, which hosts the new machine.

Wogelius and colleagues scanned the «Thermopolis specimen» using a powerful X-ray beam from a synchrotron at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource in California.

These days, medical X-rays come in multiple formats: plain film used in dental exams and doctors» offices; fluoroscopy, which bounces a continuous X-ray beam off contrast agents you've either injected or ingested, providing a moving real - time image of arteries and intestines; and the computed tomography (CT) scan, which couples a powerful computer with a circular array of extremely sensitive detectors to turn X-rays into detailed cross sections of the body.

The Polygone Scientifique de Grenoble is already host to three prestigious European institutes: the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), which is one of the three most powerful sources of x-ray beams in the world; the Institut Laue - Langevin, the world's most intense source of neutron beams; and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Outstation in Grenoble, which studies protein structure.

Then they aim powerful beams of X-rays at the sample, which hit and scatter in all directions.

When the accelerator switches on again in 2015, its proton beams will be almost twice as powerful.

To generate an accurate picture of the temperature profile within the Earth's centre, scientists can look at the melting point of iron at different pressures in the laboratory, using a diamond anvil cell to compress speck - sized samples to pressures of several million atmospheres, and powerful laser beams to heat them to 4000 or even 5000 degrees Celsius.

On November 16, 1974, it beamed the most powerful intentional message ever sent in the hope of contacting extraterrestrial life.

In addition, two Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) systems use powerful laser beams to observe the distance to satellites that reflect the laser light.

The surprisingly simple device is operated from a shed in a field near Chicago, and consists of two powerful laser beams that are directed through tubes 40 metres long.

The discovery involved ORNL's Spallation Neutron Source, which provides the most intense pulsed neutron beams in the world for scientific research and industrial development, and ORNL's Titan supercomputer, the nation's most powerful for open science — a one - two punch for illuminating the physical properties of potential drugs that inform new design principles for safer, improved delivery platforms.

Hirose squeezed perovskite between two gem - quality diamonds, called anvils, and heated it with a powerful laser beam to duplicate the high temperatures and pressures thought to exist in the 125 - to 185 - mile - thick D» layer.

«With its unique combination of powerful positron beams and high - power lasers, FACET is the only place in the world where we can do this type of research,» Hogan says.

When I was a student at the Bronx High School of Science in New York City, our principal, Dr. Morris Meister, had an image for scientific endeavor and the enlightenment it brings: «Think of science as a powerful searchlight continuously widening its beam and bringing more of the universe into the light,» he said.

The University of Portsmouth and NREL collaborated with scientists at the Diamond Light Source in the United Kingdom, a synchrotron that uses intense beams of X-rays 10 billion times brighter than the sun to act as a microscope powerful enough to see individual atoms.

In the heart of the National Ignition Facility (NIF), a technician inspects the optics assembly where 192 powerful laser beams will zap a pellet filled with deuterium and tritium, two heavy forms of hydrogen.

Each has four powerful magnets that keep the beam in line as it travels down the path.

Discovered in 1963, quasars are the most powerful objects beyond our Milky Way galaxy, beaming vast amounts of energy across space as the supermassive black hole in their center sucks in matter from its surroundings.

He adds that the microscope's electron beam is more powerful than natural settings, but the gelling effect could affect the lifetime of electrospray thrusters in low - Earth and geosynchronous orbit.

Pulsars emit powerful beams of radio waves that sweep across space like a lighthouse, but radio telescopes only notice these if Earth is in their path.

It resides in membrane spaces that evade ready experimental detection, but in a new study, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have illuminated presenilin using a neutron beam produced by the world's most powerful research nuclear reactor.

The jets in another nebula, K3 - 35, are so powerful, reports Luis Miranda of Spain's Astrophysical Institute of Andalucia, that they are squashing clouds of water vapor at their tips, 450 billion miles from the star, and causing the water to mase - emit laserlike beams of microwaves.

Others call for constructing gossamer - thin thousand - kilometer - wide «sails» in space, which would ride on powerful laser or particle beams out of solar system.

JPL scientists used NASA's 70 - meter (230 - foot) antenna at NASA's Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex in California to send out a powerful beam of microwaves directed toward the moon.

Scientists at NIF are seeking to produce fusion by imploding hydrogen fuel capsules with the world's most powerful laser beams in a process called inertial confinement.

In this method, a very powerful laser beam strikes dye molecules at half the energy (twice the wavelength) needed to excite them.

The function performed by the imagined structures is to move alien vehicles using light sails, in which powerful light beams propel a reflective surface in the vacuum of space.

Astronomers now believe, however, that GRBs seems so powerful because most of their energy is being beamed out of bi-polar jets in a brief burst, unlike the later stage of a supernova when neutrinos are emitted from all around the exploding star.

NASA's newest moon orbiter is beaming data to Earth via a powerful laser beam to test an innovative interplanetary communications systems that doesn't rely on radio waves, and a new photo reveals just what a moon laser signal looks like in infrared.

Engineers are installing a powerful neutral beam injector in the laboratory's Lithium Tokamak Experiment (LTX), an innovative device used to test the liquid metal as a first wall that enhances plasma performance.

Although they were discovered more than a century ago, the origin of the ultra-high energy ones (with an energy above 1018 eV, or 100,000 times more energetic than the particles in the LHC beam, the most powerful particle accelerator on Earth) is still a puzzle.

With 16 LED bulbs providing powerful, natural light for enhanced luminosity, the beams, which adjust to follow the bends in the road, shimmer beneath crystal clear lenses that pull back deeply into the front fenders.

The faux skid plates are finished in bright silver to accentuate the SUV character with the sleek twin beam headlights on extreme ends adding modern flair to the powerful stance.

Besides his unmatched physical strength, Darkseid's Omega Beams is easily the most powerful attack in the entirety of the DC Universe, instantly evaporating anyone it touches.

Now, the most talented developers, most prolific publishers, and most powerful hardware manufacturers in the world are given the opportunity to connect with their audience on a first - hand basis, beaming their heaviest of hitters directly into the living rooms of the people buying their products.

By the way, life forms in this world have the ability to shoot powerful laser beams that can destroy pretty much anything.

Defeat him in a similar tactic as before, but do not rely on the light beam as much because this cause the King to use a powerful attack.

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In one room, it consists of a black super-directional parabolic loudspeaker that projects a pure wave of sound into the white space; in the other room, a powerful searchlight projects a beam of white light into the black spacIn one room, it consists of a black super-directional parabolic loudspeaker that projects a pure wave of sound into the white space; in the other room, a powerful searchlight projects a beam of white light into the black spacin the other room, a powerful searchlight projects a beam of white light into the black space.

Ivanpah's image as a model of clean energy production has also been singed by a growing tally of dead birds, which ignite as they fly through the powerful solar beams; mid-day temperature in the Mojave Desert can reach 120 degrees Fahrenheit.

The former equips light poles and other «street furniture» with powerful antennas designed to cloak an entire city in WiFi, while the latter is designed to beam this signal for increased coverage.