• We're not rushing to beat that light, we're not stressed out waiting in a queue that's caused purely and simply by that red light.

    BBC: Viewpoint: Is it time to get rid of traffic lights?

  • In fact, the star is so luminous that researchers will be able to make direct observations of the planet's atmosphere by examining light that shines through it when the star passes within KELT North's field of view again in November.

    MSN: Newly discovered alien planet 'resets the bar for weird'

  • At the end of a short hallway was another door, indicated to me now by the light that came on behind it.

    NEWYORKER: Wakefield

  • Family Favourites - a programme that had originally been broadcast by the BBC on Radio 2 and the The Light Programme before that, was resurrected by the new station and was well-received by the county's military folk who could get requests and messages played for their loved ones abroad, especially during the first Iraq War.

    BBC: Wiltshire - A history of the BBC in Wiltshire

  • Ms. DE BOURBON-RODRIGUEZ: He was electric on stage and the cues for the girls or the musicians coming in to the arrangement would be also enhanced by light cues that would come off of his fingertips in essence.

    NPR: Having a Ball with Juan Garcia Esquivel

  • They discovered that by shifting the "phase" of light so that the peaks of one wave line up with the valleys of an adjacent one, the two cancel each other, creating "shadows" between waves that are smaller than the waves themselves(see diagram, p. 141).

    FORBES: Trick Of The Light

  • They discovered that, by shifting the "phase" of light so that the peaks of one wave line up with the valleys of an adjacent wave, the two waves cancel each other out, creating "shadows" between waves that are smaller than the waves themselves(see chart).

    FORBES: Trick of the Light

  • Hamilton said he had been told by the team that the red light was on at the end of the pit lane, but that the warning came "a little bit late".

    BBC: Kubica wins after Hamilton error

  • At a microelectromechanical systems conference that is taking place at Interlaken, Switzerland, from January 21st-25th, the researchers will describe their latest creations, which include moving microparts that are driven by light.

    ECONOMIST: Microelectronics grows up

  • Melville reflected on his time here: 'It needs scarcely to be told, with what feelings I regarded those marble tablets, and by the murky light of that darkened, doleful day read the fate of the whalemen who had gone before me.

    BBC: The haunted land of New England

  • Mr. WAYNE CHARNESS (Spokesman, Hasbro Company): There are currently about 25 million other Easy-Bake Ovens that are side entry, using the light bulb that are unaffected by this recall.

    NPR: Burns Prompt Another Toy-Oven Recall

  • That said, the 2% by volume that goes by air accounts for around 35% of the value: light, expensive goods such as high-end electronic components tend to be flown.

    ECONOMIST: The effect on business and leisure

  • The chip contains 1500 pixels replacing the light-receiving cells that have died in retinitis pigmentosa patients by receiving external light and then transmitting those signals directly to the brain.

    FORBES: Second Test Of Retinal Implant Shows Restored Vision To The Blind

  • These can be made to emit white light by coating the device with a phosphor compound that absorbs part of the blue light and re-emits it as yellow.

    ECONOMIST: Lighting: A brilliant new approach | The

  • The techniques employed might also help to improve LEDs that produce white light by mixing red, green and blue emitters.

    ECONOMIST: Lighting: A brilliant new approach | The

  • This normally happens spontaneously, but it can also be forced to happen by light produced by electrons that have already made the drop.

    ECONOMIST: Optoelectronics

  • Consumers have complained that the light emitted by LEDs is too harsh, however, there are several techniques manufacturers and consumers can employ improve light quality.

    FORBES: How To Spur Mass Market Consumer Adoption Of LEDs

  • However, it seems that they are controlled by light.

    BBC: Body clock 'set before birth'

  • Until now, the existence of such a device -- which works by splitting light in a way that points to its source -- has only been hinted at in fleeting literary mentions.

    ENGADGET: Alt-week 3.9.13: Sunstones, knotted vortices and a zero-g robot

  • In other green tech and design news, Hitachi unveiled an impressive new wireless controlled robot to help with the Fukushima Daiichi cleanup and London-based designers Martin Riddiford and Jim Reeves developed the GravityLight, an amazing low-energy, battery-free light that works by harnessing the power of weight and gravity.

    ENGADGET: Inhabitat's Week in Green: madder root batteries, sun-powered plane and the world's first fiber-optic solar cell

  • As Roger Cohen and John Podhoretz have written, this allowed them to offer their writers a variety of perks that are hard to come by today, including a generous salary and a light schedule that allowed them to put a lot of time and effort into each story.

    FORBES: The Hamster Wheel

  • American said last week that by offering early boarding to passengers who are traveling light, with only a carry-on bag that fits under the seat in from of them, it can chop two minutes off the time it takes to board a narrowbody aircraft.

    FORBES: Spirit Airlines: We Board an A320 in 20 Minutes

  • This has generated legitimate concerns that UAVs could be used by the government in ways that infringe privacy rights, particularly in light of three 1980s-era Supreme Court decisions that found no Fourth Amendment violation in warrantless observations from manned government aircraft.

    FORBES: Will "Drones" Outflank the Fourth Amendment?

  • The infrared light that is reflected by a plant shows how efficiently photosynthesis occurs in that plant and can provide insight into its general health.

    WSJ: Farmers Experiment With Drones

  • The UCLA team describes a new kind of polymer solar cell (PSC) that produces energy by absorbing mainly infrared light, not visible light, making the cells nearly 70% transparent to the human eye.

    ENGADGET: UCLA creates transparent solar cell, dreams of current generating windows

  • Terahertz light - which lies between infrared light like that used by remote controls and the microwaves in the appliance of the same name - has become popular in scanning technology at airports and museums' back rooms because it can extract information without risk of damage.

    BBC: Terahertz scanner reveals hidden fresco at Louvre

  • The observatory, which is named after the physicist who discovered the showers caused by cosmic rays, has 1, 600 detectors on the ground to record the arrival of such cascades and 24 telescopes pointing at the sky to locate the flashes of light produced by the collisions that create them.

    ECONOMIST: Cosmic rays: They came from outer space | The

  • By that measure, after 13 months, the power created by the "Farmers' light" would effectively be free.

    CNN: Energizing India

  • Also, color photographs could be achieved by using several sheets that capture different hues of light.

    ENGADGET

  • OLEDs were also limited by the life span of organic materials that transferred light.

    FORBES: Samsung's Bendable Phone Could Break Apple's Innovation Hegemony

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