emit light

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In privacy mode, the device dims those wide pixels, while the narrow pixels emit light only at your face.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

Because these ingredients do not emit light, researchers learn about them by tracking how they affect the visible universe.

From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2025

Direct detection has not been possible because dark matter particles do not interact with electromagnetic force -- meaning they do not absorb, reflect or emit light.

From Science Daily • Nov. 29, 2025

Those headlights, on the ends of two of its arms, are more properly called photophores - organs that react a mix of substances with oxygen to emit light.

From BBC • May 16, 2024

Both the male and female fireflies emit light, as well as their larvae and eggs, the egg being luminous even while still in the ovary.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various