detector
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The experiment searches for dark matter by watching for characteristic flashes of light created when particles deposit energy inside the detector.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
Using a sensitive detector in an an underground laboratory in the US, the researchers saw an atom and mystery particle colliding.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Where rapper MGK, best known as Machine Gun Kelly, set off a hand-held metal detector with his chain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
I am sure of it not because I remember writing this thing in fits and starts throughout Saturday, but because an A.I. detector called Pangram blessed these paragraphs with a “100% Human Written” score.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
Curtis goes through the metal detector with no problems.
From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas
A surrounding water tank and additional outer detectors help shield the central detector from background neutrons.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
The instrument is a 300 megapixel infrared camera equipped with 18 4K detectors, each roughly the size of a saltine cracker.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
Soldiers screened people entering the presidency with metal detectors.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
"We would ask the government to help us with things like metal detectors, which could help us find out whether there are other minerals here, so that our community can develop," he says.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
“A school official, who spoke with us under guarantee of their anonymity, said that the metal detectors were installed after a fight broke out on the second day of school.”
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
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