News tagged with background lighting

NTT researchers develop breakthrough optical memory device

(PhysOrg.com) -- To improve transmission speeds, the Internet has transitioned over the years from one using copper to fiber optic cabling. Unfortunately, this has caused a bottleneck to occur where the light ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Save your day: Mid-ocean creatures control light to avoid becoming snacks

If you're a snack-sized squid or octopus living in the ocean zone where the last bit of daylight gives way, having some control over your reflection could be a matter of life and death.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Backgrounds

You’ve probably heard of the cosmic microwave background, but it doesn’t stop there. The as-yet-undetectable cosmic neutrino background is out there waiting to give us a view into the first seconds ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jun 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 3

World of lights in the microcosmos

(PhysOrg.com) -- Light-emitting diodes are gaining ground: They are now being used as background lighting for displays. But the manufacturing of complex LED optics is still complex and expensive. A new technology ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 01, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Do we need dark matter?

It's the biggest problem in physics: the matter we can see in the universe accounts for just five per cent of the observed gravity that holds galaxies together.

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (22) | comments 34

Physicist makes new high-res panorama of Milky Way

Cobbling together 3000 individual photographs, a physicist has made a new high-resolution panoramic image of the full night sky, with the Milky Way galaxy as its centerpiece. Axel Mellinger, a professor at ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 3

Twinkling nanostars cast new light into biomedical imaging

(PhysOrg.com) -- Purdue University researchers have created magnetically responsive gold nanostars that may offer a new approach to biomedical imaging.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Ghost remains after black hole eruption

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has found a cosmic "ghost" lurking around a distant supermassive black hole. This is the first detection of such a high-energy apparition, and scientists think it is evidence ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 28, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (17) | comments 15