Sentences with phrase «than light sensitive»

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This system makes sharks 10 times more sensitive to light than humans.

How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life itself originated; but I may remark that, as some of the lowest organisms in which nerves can not be detected, are capable of perceiving light, it does not seem impossible that certain sensitive elements in their sarcode should become aggregated and developed into nerves, endowed with this special sensibility.»

Rather than the huge wall of sound that often accompanies many modern, church - based albums, here there is light and shade, sensitive arrangements and — where appropriate — explosive power.

Let's be more clear - your baby's eyes are more sensitive than those of adults, and therefore shouldn't spend too long looking at things that give off blue light.

Once researchers have a handful of detections, then LIGO and other similar facilities become just another astronomical tool, but one that is sensitive to changes in gravity rather than light.

Coupled with software to reduce assorted stellar background noise, it could measure light changes down to 20 parts per million, making it more than sensitive enough to detect an Earth - size planet around a sunlike star in an orbit as large as Earth's.

The telescopes, with more sensitive detectors than previous x-ray telescopes, recorded high - energy light indicative of temperatures exceeding 10 million °C from one region of the sun.

So, the researchers suspected that another molecule might be involved — and that turns out to be Rh7, which is more light - sensitive than cryptochrome.

The brittlestar Ophiocoma wendtii, a relative of starfish, can scan the sea floor, thanks to light - sensitive cells scattered across its skin, rather than by using eye - like structures, a study suggests.

The fact that the NPY - deficient mice were no more sensitive than controls to more forceful forms of touch and painful stimuli, or even to chemicals that evoke itchiness, suggests light touch uses its own pathway in the nervous system to evoke scratching.

Because the plasmons are confined to the tiny gap, they are more sensitive than light is for sensing the motion of small objects like the gold nanoparticle.

Using a sensitive two - pan balance, I calculate that to be certain of finding the offending coin and whether it is heavier or lighter than the others, I shall need three weighings.

The Atacama Large Millimeter / Submillimeter Array (ALMA), high up in the deserts of northern Chile, is sensitive to light from cooler objects of the cosmos: clouds of gas and dust rather than burning stars.

To create these, they use the laser in a 3D printer to do more than just build the main structure: it also turns a type of translucent light - sensitive plastic — called a photopolymer — into a bunch of optical fibres.

In contrast, perovskite solar cells depend on a layer of tiny crystals — each about 1,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair — made of low - cost, light - sensitive materials.

Red - green color blindness is caused by an unusual form of a light receptor in the eye, which is sensitive to a different range of colors than normal.

Artificial retinas, light - sensitive chips that mimic the eye's signal - processing ability and stimulate the optical nerve or visual cortex, have been tested in a handful of blind subjects who usually «see» nothing more than phosphenes, or flashes of light.

The Mecp2 mutant mice were more sensitive to light touch; a small puff of air on their backs startled the rodents more than normal mice.

HESS is a system of four 13 - metre diameter and one 28m diameter telescopes sensitive to gamma rays that have 100 billion times more energy than optical light.

Not only can this new, light - weight, magnetoencephalography (MEG) system be worn, but it is also more sensitive than currently available systems.

Neutrons are more sensitive to light atoms like hydrogen and carbon than x-rays.

«Our circadian rhythms are more sensitive to blue light than any other kind,» says Mariana Figueiro, assistant professor at the Lighting Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y.

I have always been someone sensitive to light and aesthetics so I realized that a sign, especially a hand - draw one, perhaps colored with natural pigments, can touch the learner's eyes or let's poetically say, their heart, in a different, perhaps warmer way than its digital counterpart.

Combined with small tail lights, the DB11 is more colour sensitive than its more svelte predecessors.

At first, the steering seems too light — not enough road feel, not quite sensitive enough — but after a day or two, I actually liked it better than the old hydraulic steering.

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Coming back to that lighting problem, some experts have their own say, i.e., the problem isn't actually there, but it is just that some people have more sensitive eyes than others, which allow them to determine such small color variations.

TPCR loved the Type Cover 2 for its quiet typing and back - lit keys, and thought it the better choice than the Touch Cover 2, which has pressure sensitive squares instead of keys, but is a bit thinner.

Our retinas (light - sensitive layers of tissue) have more cones than that of cats, which gives us fantastic daytime vision, where we are able to see vibrant hues in excellent clarity.

Under normal light, dogs probably see green and blue as much brighter than red, because they have very few to no red - sensitive cones.

The lack of color sense is balanced by the dog having many more rods, light - sensitive cells on the retina, than people do.

The virus is sensitive to ultraviolet light, heat and drying, and tends to linger in cold environments more so than in warm climates.

Ponga Drops is more sensitive to stiff offshore winds than surrounding waves because it breaks pretty far offshore; but with lights winds or no wind at all you should expect a very playful right that breaks all the way through to the inside, as well as a mellow left ideal for multiple cutbacks.

More than a third of the objects in the exhibition are light sensitive and will change every six months so there will always be something new to experience.

In More Heat than Light and Less Light Warm Words (2015 - 16), installed in solo exhibitions at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco and Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland, and the Swiss Institute, New York, respectively, Lewitt engineered specially manufactured heating circuits used for the regulation of internal temperatures in environmentally sensitive media systems and redirected all available energy that flowed through the institutional lighting grids in the exhibition spaces.

One of the oldest techniques in photography, the cyanotype or blueprint process uses light - sensitive iron salts rather than traditional silver - based chemistry to achieve its rich, deep blue tones.

Moreover, it is found that polarized reflectances obtained at the shorter wavelengths (0.41 and 0.55 µm) are significantly less sensitive to the contribution of the ocean's upwelling light than total reflectance measurements, providing a natural tool for the separation between the estimation of oceanic and atmospheric scattering properties.

«A study by statisticians at Oregon State University concluded that in the United States, the carbon legacy and greenhouse gas impact of an extra child is almost 20 times more important than some of the other environmentally sensitive practices people might employ their entire lives — things like driving a high mileage car, recycling, or using energy - efficient appliances and light bulbs.»

Rather than physically change the amount of light that falls on the camera's sensor, ISO controls how sensitive it is to light.

Light - stained and light - coloured species of wood, however, are more sensitive to wear - and - tear than dark ones, and therefore require more frequent cleaning and maintenLight - stained and light - coloured species of wood, however, are more sensitive to wear - and - tear than dark ones, and therefore require more frequent cleaning and maintenlight - coloured species of wood, however, are more sensitive to wear - and - tear than dark ones, and therefore require more frequent cleaning and maintenance.