Sentences with phrase «small amount of light»

Cats, by the way, can concentrate small amounts of light in their eyes, which allows them to see at night when the rest of us have difficulty.

Meanwhile, they are constructed to allow small amounts of light to enter a room.

(Even small amounts of light from alarm clocks can blunt melatonin production and affect your sleep.)

The oscillation is like a miniature antenna that radiates a very small amount of light into the cavity.

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

But most far northern soils are permanently frozen just below the surface, and warming climate is not altering the fearfully small amount of light reaching plants much of the year.

Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology discovered that the glasswing's wings reflect very small amounts of light (due to pillar - like nanostructures, the details of which are far beyond what my non-biology-skilled brain can understand).

Like cats, sharks have a kind of «night vision» that allows their eyes to get the most use out of the small amounts of light available.

Use a small amount of the light olive oil to oil the roasting pan, or line the roasting pan with baking parchment for easy cleanup.

Implantation bleeding — typically defined as a small amount of light spotting or bleeding that occurs about 10 to 14 days after conception — is normal.

As early as eighteen weeks pregnant, despite your baby's eyes remaining tightly closed, they may be able to see a small amount of light shining through.

A small amount of that light, however, stayed in the supernova's immediate vicinity, bouncing off clumps of dust, or filaments.

A small amount of the light scatters back towards the LIDAR instrument, where it is collected by a telescope.

The feedback fiber takes a small amount of light produced in the fiber containing the acetylene gas and uses that light to seed another cycle of light amplification, thus reducing the pump power required to produce a laser beam.

These properties are referred to as «non-linear,» meaning that if a small amount of light can make the optical cavity resonate, a higher light intensity can cause it to actually switch between two different states.

A small amount of light also seeps into the darker middle part of the beam, heating the air on one side of the particle and pushing it along the length of the laser beam.

We use a technology called adaptive optics that corrects the imperfections present in all eyes to achievehigh - resolutionn images, and couple this with advanced methods for detecting the small amount of light that emerges from the eye to see these cells.

Second, the planet blocks a small amount of light as it passes in front of the star (from our point of view).

But computerized searches can be greatly compromised by false detections caused by a small amount of light scattering in the telescope's camera — particularly when there are bright stars or densely packed stars in the image.

Even a small amount of light can disrupt melatonin production.

Technology can affect your sleep by keeping you cognitively stimulated — and even the small amount of light from the screen delays production of the sleep hormone melatonin.

Any light exposure such as a small amount of light that filters in through the curtains and hits your skin can interrupt the hormone production, causing a decrease in melatonin levels.

Many people are not aware that exposure to the smallest amount of light at night will cause your body to shut down further

Like many people with light blue irises, my eyes are super sensitive so even the smallest amount of light keeps me up / wakes me up.

The small amount of light, more «realistic» bloodletting that is glimpsed in the «Videodrome» footage was not contributed, as some might think, by Rick Baker but rather by the film's cosmetic makeup artist, Shonagh Jabour.

Cells in the tapetum act like a mirror, reflecting light that passes between the rods and the cones back to the photoreceptors and giving them another chance to pick up the small amount of light available at night.

The game is set in a dark atmosphere, and you must guide the candle through a ship, the woods, a lighthouse, and beyond utilizing the small amount of light.