emit light

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Wide pixels, which emit light to the sides, are separated from narrow, front-pointing pixels.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

When those electrons snap back, they emit light that carries detailed information about how electrons and even atomic nuclei move.

From Science Daily • Jan. 5, 2026

In this design, however, the energy from the triplet state is transferred with more than 98% efficiency to the lanthanide ions inside the insulating nanoparticles, causing them to emit light with remarkable brightness.

From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 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 sexes of certain luminous species of Elater emit light.

From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I by Darwin, Charles