The detector records these streams of light , enabling physicists to identify the original neutrino and measure the amount of energy it had.

ENGADGET: NOvA neutrino detector captures cosmic rays in 3D, aims to unlock the mysteries of the universe

Sending large amounts of information down an optical fibre is done by encoding many separate streams of data as pulses of light of different colours, so that they can travel along the fibre without interfering with each other.

ECONOMIST: Optical fibres could carry more information in the future

In a report in the journal Nature, US researchers say they have worked out how black holes emit jet streams of particles at close to light speed.

BBC: Black holes reveal more secrets

The traffic running through downtown Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, jogs to the right as it passes the five-tiered Memorial Fountain, while the fountain's streams of water glisten like ropes of diamonds in the new light.

CNN: Wall Street runs through small-town square

But when the sun came out, a golden light would transform the scene, revealing the details of cliffs, streams, clumps of woodland and - most significantly - herds of reindeer.

BBC: Threat to life on Arctic frontline

These streams remind me of how I recall things in my mind, as rushes of images, flashes of light, rhythms of repetitive patterns and disjunctions.

FORBES: Lightt App Compresses Time, Collapses Space and Creates A New Kind Of Social Stream