Sentence examples for seconds to detect from inspiring English sources

While brain cells work in thousandths of a second, functional imaging needs a couple of seconds to detect blood flow.

The main program moves the pointer to each animal in turn and waits for a few seconds to detect the button press, if any.

New research from the University of California, Berkeley, suggests it can take just 20 seconds to detect whether a stranger is genetically inclined to being trustworthy, kind or compassionate.

NQR detectors have already been tested in airports, where they have managed, within six seconds, to detect the military explosive RDX in quantities comparable to those in a mine.

The hippies also don't want us to run a tube full of toxic garbage across America's largest underground water supply, and they aren't convinced that it's safe – despite supporters who note that the pipeline has "16,000 data points updated every five seconds" to detect leaks, and, come on, would the fossil fuels industry grossly overstate their own efficacy in environmental protection?

This device is being used in battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the U.S. Transportation Security Administration recently started using it at airports, but most airports still rely on microwave oven-sized instruments that take minutes, rather than seconds, to detect explosives in swabs taken from luggage or passengers' skin.

The survey is not the first to detect this range of substances in water.

In some cases, the drones are the first to detect moving targets.

A novel sensor array is the first to detect single molecules produced by living cells.

She didn't engineer the shift, and she is by no means the first to detect it.

Dozens of research groups around the world are racing to be the first to detect dark matter.