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So this robot is now traveling at two to three meters per second, pitching and rolling aggressively as it changes direction.
On the floor, a stylized compass gave the direction to each immigration detention center, accompanied by the distance and the name of the immigration facility.
In the real world, customers come from more than one direction, and businesses are free to compete with marketing strategies, by differentiating their product line, and with price cuts, but at the heart of their strategy, companies like to keep their competition as close as possible.
Right as I leave the surface, nature gives me a push in the right direction, allowing me to descend with confidence.
The first troops moved in single-file along routes used by local ethnic groups, and broken tree branches at dusty crossroads were often all that indicated the direction.
So when you take a fixation, you end up with this weird optic blur stuff, and it tells you the direction you're moving.
So it makes sense that we've headed in this direction.
But how have we headed in this direction?
Some climbed the social ladder from the bottom all the way to the very top, and some made that journey in the opposite direction.
All this tells your body which direction you're moving in, how much you've accelerated, even at what angle.
But these were demonstrated through multiple, well-conducted epidemiological studies, all pointing in the same direction.
Shortly after a carbon dioxide molecule absorbs an infrared photon, it will fall back to its previous energy level, and spit a photon back out in a random direction.
Being cupped, rather than flat, enables it to better sense the direction of the incoming light.
The ability to smell separately with each nostril, smelling in stereo, helps to determine the direction of the smell's source so that within the first few moments of sniffing, the dog starts to become aware of not just what kind of things are out there but also where they're located.
And everything in the street, every passing person or car, any contents of the neighbor's trash, each type of tree, and all the birds and insects in it has a distinct odor profile telling your dog what it is, where it is, and which direction it's moving in.
And cooperative pressure pushes handedness distribution in the opposite direction.
The stone causes waves to travel in the water at the same speed in every direction.
As the source keeps moving in a certain direction, the successive waves in front of it will become bunched closer together.
According to Newton's first law of motion, an object will move in the same direction and velocity until a force is applied on it.
When Carlos kicked the ball, he gave it direction and velocity, but what force made the ball swerve and score one of the most magnificent goals in the history of the sport?
On one side, the air moved in the opposite direction to the ball's spin, causing increased pressure, while on the other side, the air moved in the same direction as the spin, creating an area of lower pressure.
The ball's spin creates a pressure differential in the surrounding air flow that curves it in the direction of the spin.
Things like the corporate social responsibility programs, albeit small in scale, are moving in that right direction.
Now is the time to create change in this industry and to push it into a sustainable direction.
This magnet generates a field strong enough to change the direction of the metal grain's magnetization.
Scientists resolved this limitation in a remarkably simple way: by changing the direction of recording from longitudinal to perpendicular, allowing areal density to approach one terabit per square inch.
Cephalopods, on the other hand, have no bones at all, allowing them to bend their limbs at any point and in any direction.
But it turns out that asymmetry is pretty important, too, and more common than you might think, from crabs with one giant pincer claw to snail species whose shells' always coil in the same direction.
The node is lined with tiny hairs called cilia, while tilt away from the head and whirl around rapidly, all in the same direction.
Bacterial colonies grow lacy branches that all curl in the same direction, and human cells cultured inside a ring-shaped boundary tend to line up like the ridges on a cruller.
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