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And, how come you can't detect colors when it's dark?
Even though our eyes can't detect light outside of the visible range, we can build special detectors that are stimulated by these other wavelengths of light, kind of like digital eyes.
In fact, the only way we can detect this dark matter is through this gravitational interaction, how things orbit around it and how it bends light as it curves the space around it.
All of these different combinations let you detect a staggeringly broad array of smells.
Without the ability to smell, you lose the ability to taste anything more complicated than the five tastes your taste buds can detect: sweet, salty, bitter, sour, and savory.
If you toss a baseball up in the air, its wavelength is a billionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a meter, far too tiny to ever detect.
That's far too small to detect, so we'll never see wave behavior from a cat.
We hear anywhere from 10 to 200 lies a day, and we spent much of our history coming up with ways to detect them, from medieval torture devices to polygraphs, blood-pressure and breathing monitors, voice-stress analyzers, eye trackers, infrared brain scanners, and even the 400-pound electroencephalogram.
The human eye is an amazing mechanism, able to detect anywhere from a few photons to direct sunlight, or switch focus from the screen in front of you to the distant horizon in a third of a second.
Cats, classically nighttime hunters, have evolved with a reflective layer maximizing the amount of light the eye can detect, granting them excellent night vision, as well as their signature glow.
All of this allows dogs to distinguish and remember a staggering variety of specific scents at concentrations up to 100 million times less than what our noses can detect.
From that specimen that we take from a patient's blood to detect Ebola, we can discard it, obviously.
Or a 16-year-old girl who built an algorithm to help detect whether a cancer is benign or malignant in the off chance that she can save her daddy's life because he has cancer.
As soon as the leukocytes detect them, it takes only minutes for the body’s protective immune response to kick in.
And he was saying that with Kepler's extreme precision, it could actually detect alien megastructures around stars, but it didn't.
What if we had better technologies to detect some of these more deadly cancers sooner, when they could be removed, when they were just getting started?
OK, so if I make a 100-nanometer cancer detector, I inject it in the bloodstream, it can leak into the tumor where it's activated by tumor enzymes to release a small signal that is small enough to be filtered out of the kidney and put into the urine, I have a signal in the outside world that I can detect.
This is a tiny little signal, so how do I detect it?
And I hope that what this means is that one day we can detect tumors in patients sooner than 10 years after they've started growing, in all walks of life, all around the globe, and that this would lead to earlier treatments, and that we could save more lives than we can today, with early detection.
We adults can easily detect their lies.
Do you think you can easily detect their lies?
No, they cannot detect children's lies.
Can they detect children's lies?
Can parents detect other children's lies?
What about, can parents detect their own children's lies?
So now you may ask why children's lies are so difficult to detect.
Unfortunately, such emotion-related facial blood flow changes are too subtle to detect by our naked eye.
And using this technology, we can now reveal the hidden emotions associated with lying, and therefore detect people's lies.
Using TV footage, we could detect the politicians' heart rate, mood and stress, and perhaps in the future, whether or not they are lying to us.
And in the same way many of us are now wearing sensors that detect our heart rate, our respiration, our genes, on the hopes that this may help us prevent diseases, we can ask whether monitoring and analyzing the words we speak, we tweet, we email, we write, can tell us ahead of time whether something may go wrong with our minds.
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