It turns out that humans can, in fact, detect as few as 2 photons entering the retina.
As users, then, we can only detect viruses as we can, update our virus detection files religiously, armor systems as much as possible, be extremely cautious of email attachments, and always be on the alert.
The observatories will monitor regions of the galaxy continuously, in order to detect exoplanets as they pass between their host star and the Earth.
This will enable it to detect planets as tiny as four earth masses up to 33 light-years away, and earth-sized planets (if they exist) around the sun's closest neighbours.
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And I always tell my students that it is just as important to be able to detect the presence of discrimination as it is to detect when discrimination is NOT present.
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The group hopes to implant electrodes that can detect electrical activity as well as stimulate it.
You now can deploy laser scanners and microcontrollers to detect quality gradations as minute as five nines, six nines--seven nines!
When sound waves enter the tube, the vibration of the droplets will cause the sensor to detect changes optically as the beam is disturbed, supposedly resulting in near-perfect vocal reproduction.
Once LED lighting systems are networked, you can do a lot of things with them such as detect motion, predict maintenance or figure out how many people are in a room.
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Because they have access to information unavailable to ordinary investors, the staffing to review such information and detect abuses, as well as the financial wherewithal to pursue wrongdoing, pension funds frequently enter into confidential settlements with managers.
It is for this reason that you need a device, such as Dr Shields's, which can detect and count individual photons as they come out of different parts of the beam-splitter.
They are not as sensitive as sharks and rays, but can detect signals of the same size as those produced in water when fish move their muscles.
The device, which resembles the sawed-off head of a driver golf club, uses its Plant Care Engine (or PCE as its literature so abbreviates) to detect such important plant growth criteria as water, fertilizer, humidity, temperature and light.
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At airport check-ins, breakthrough "sniffing" technology will detect explosives in traces as tiny as billionths of a gram.
Noble efforts to detect asteroid threats such as those of the B612 Foundation have received much deserved attention.
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For example, it uses cameras to detect normal light, as well as spectrometers.
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Beneath the carpet is a mesh of optical fibres that detect and plot movement as pressure bends them, changing the light detected at the carpet's edges.
We mentioned already that there are sensors that detect its position, as you might have guess, this means you can place the soundbar in a variety of orientations to suit your home's particular set up.
They can also be used to detect pathogens in food such as E. coli.
This idea, as you may detect, is cheerfully ripped off from "Die Fledermaus" by Johannn Strauss II.
It might be able to detect covert circuitry, such as bugging devices hidden in walls, stones or foliage.
As soon as the apps detect the connection to the car the screen is disabled, ensuring that this one vector for distracted driving is eliminated.
Glasgow City Council hopes to buy cameras which could automatically detect unusual activity, such as unattended bags or people on bridge parapets, before alerting the emergency services.
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While tools such as Doppler Radar detect winds within severe storms that could indicate a tornado may be imminent, many of these rotating storms do not go on to produce tornadoes.
Regular players could, indeed, detect a second target almost twice as often as non-players.
This, as its name suggests, is fitted with instruments such as radars that can detect rainfall directly.
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