Sentences with phrase «rapid burst»

Further analysis allowed the scientists to determine which of the objects are galaxies containing massive central black holes that are actively consuming surrounding material and which are galaxies undergoing rapid bursts of star formation.

The event will force theorists to explain how flares can unleash energy in such rapid bursts.

Research shows that the warming occurred in two much more rapid bursts.

Solar flares are brief, rapid bursts of high - energy radiation emitted by the sun.

Comparing himself to a machine gun, Moriyama fires off his camera in rapid bursts of instinctive shooting.

When Lewis did put pen to paper, the seven stories of the Chronicles were produced — even for as fluent as Lewis — in an astonishingly rapid burst of creativity (with the publication of the first in 1950 and the seventh in 1956).

Compared with the slow, top - down melting of permafrost, thermokarst failures unleash rapid bursts of carbon - rich organic material, as rivulets of water from the melting ice cut deep channels into the soil and transport the carbon into rivers or the ocean.

Stage 2 lasts slightly longer, around 20 minutes, and is marked by rapid bursts of rhythmic brain activity known as sleep spindles.

Atmospheric methane levels have shown a similar rapid burst.

Keun Su Kim, an amiable professor stationed at POSTECH speaks in rapid bursts when detailing the experiment, «We transferred electrons from the dopant — potassium — to the surface of the black phosphorus, which confined the electrons and allowed us to manipulate this state.

These occasions call for quick and concise bits of knowledge that employees access during their «moment of need», such as microlearning online training tutorials that deliver rapid bursts of information.

In my week with the Focus Electric in the San Francisco Bay Area — the first multiday test of the car by a journalist — the powertrain felt as if it had been tailored for highway driving, offering rapid bursts of acceleration from 30 to 50 m.p.h., and from 55 to 75, with oomph left in reserve.

It then completely disappeared by 6,800 years ago in two geologically rapid bursts, shedding enough ice to raise sea levels by as much as four feet (1.3 meters) per century, according to research published this week in Nature Geoscience.

Similarly, in the fast - paced Galaxian - style arcade shooter 1982, the quick tracking helped me move my ship from side to side and fire off rapid bursts of missiles.

His free kick from just beyond the box flew beyond Petr Cech and changed the complexion of the tie; it could have altered further just seconds after the restart but Ahmed Musa shot into the side netting after a rapid burst sent him free down the left.

Theories abound, but one popular idea — favoured by the authors of this study — is that it reflects the action of attention which appears to sample neural activity in rapid bursts.

The specimens in the study come from the Cambrian Period, a time when Earth saw a rapid burst of evolution that led to the first appearance of most major groups of marine animals.

If the molecular clock is right, then unicellular forms of animals, plants and fungi all diverged from a common ancestor in a rapid burst around a billion years ago.

One group theorizes that eukaryotes emerged in a rapid burst, driven by the acquisition of the cellular energy factories known as mitochondria.

A rapid burst of cortisol secretion kickstarts the day by synchronising widespread biological systems.

The living descendants of dinosaurs were thought to have undergone a rapid burst of evolution after most dinosaur species were wiped out.

The specimens in the study come from the Cambrian Period, a time when the Earth saw a rapid burst of evolution that led to the first appearance of most major groups of marine animals.

They'll target the debris and hit it with a rapid burst of energy.

Their gas and dust may been blown away by the galaxy moving quickly through the low - density intergalactic medium (hot, very thin gas between the galaxies) or used up in a rapid burst of star formation.

During the day, GH secretion occurs in rapid bursts that respond to high - intensity exercise.

Femme accroupie (Jacqueline), painted on 8 October 1954, is one of three large - easel - format canvases that Picasso executed in a rapid burst of activity on that day.

With Google's HDR +, your smartphone camera takes a rapid burst of pictures.

The otherwise excellent Nokia Blink app also shoots a rapid burst of several exposures.

Lastly, the new HDR + mode automatically snaps a rapid burst of photos and combines them to give you the best possible single shot.

Simply press - and - hold the screen to whirr off a rapid burst of capture, which is saved as an image stack.