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Before it can navigate this onslaught of obstacles, the car has to detect them— gleaning enough information about their size, shape, and position, so that its control algorithms can plot the safest course.
Well, if the problem is that we can't see UV rays, maybe we can make a tattoo detect them for us.
Now, the problem is that humans can't detect our own body temperature without a thermometer.
These future labs-on-a-chip may easily, rapidly, and non-invasively detect a host of illnesses, by analyzing human saliva or sweat in a doctor’s office or the convenience of our homes.
Sensors in specialized nerve endings detect mechanical, thermal, and chemical threats.
And our goal was to prove that this sensor would work really well to detect that hydrogen gas.
What if we could detect the chemicals that are given off by our bodies when we're ill and use that to diagnose people?
They have to detect a number of chemicals in the right concentration, the right ratios, the right combinations of chemicals.
So we really are looking at deploying dogs in countries, and particularly at ports of entry, to detect people who have malaria.
Imagine a patch that you wear on the skin that would detect in your sweat when you're infected with malaria and change colour.
And we go back to the fossil record and we could try to detect how many of these have happened in the past.
When people think about making pan-viral detection reagents, usually it's the fast-evolving problem that's an issue, because how can we detect things if they're always changing?
Remember, our evolutionary-conserved sequences we're using on this array allow us to detect even novel or uncharacterized viruses, because we pick what is conserved throughout evolution.
If we accurately track blood loss during delivery, we can detect a hemorrhage sooner and save a woman's life.
And we want clean ships because fouling on these vessels actually makes them less efficient in the water and can be easier for enemies to detect.
It might be that some massive network of communications, or some shield against asteroidal impact, or some huge astro-engineering project that we can't even begin to conceive of, could generate signals at radio or optical frequencies that a determined program of searching might detect.
That means any signal we detect would have started its journey a long time ago.
And from the results of the same competition last year, a University of Texas team of students programmed bacteria so that they can detect light and switch on and off.
With a team of NYU students, we built a mathematical model, a neural network that can detect and track these plumes over the New York City skyline.
I am adapting the same models that detect plumes in city images to detect light echoes in images of the sky.
To detect a synapse, we’ll need to scan at a resolution of about a micron— a thousandth of a millimeter.
But as we gain more precision in our measurements of these constants, we might detect slight changes over time.
So they could exist even if we don’t detect them over centuries or millennia of measurements.
When I drink a cup of coffee, I detect this cup of coffee by receptors on my body, information which is then turned into activated neurons in my brain.
Or maybe we figure out that we can't, because we subconsciously detect calories via our receptors in our gastrointestinal tract.
What if we could detect the chemicals that are given off by our bodies when we're ill, and use that to diagnose people?
Imagine a patch that you wear on the skin that would detect in your sweat when you're infected with malaria and change color.
Additionally, nails improved the sensitivity of their digits by providing an extra surface to detect changes in pressure while climbing.
And this light that we're trying to detect is coming from millions or billions of light-years away, and so it's generally pretty faint.
Our eyes have evolved to just detect this tiny range of the full spectrum of light.
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