News tagged with high resolution

Omni-focus video camera to revolutionize industry

University of Toronto announced a breakthrough development in video camera design. The Omni-focus Video Camera, based on an entirely new distance-mapping principle, delivers automatic real-time focus of both ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 04, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (34) | comments 19 | with audio podcast

3D-printer with nano-precision

Printing three dimensional objects with incredibly fine details is now possible using "two-photon lithography". With this technology, tiny structures on a nanometer scale can be fabricated. Researchers at ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (29) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

A breakthrough in superlens development: Cheap, simple lens to let us see a single virus

A superlens would let you see a virus in a drop of blood and open the door to better and cheaper electronics. It might, says Durdu Guney, make ultra-high-resolution microscopes as commonplace as cameras in ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (29) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Physicists develop 3D metamaterial nanolens that achieves super-resolution imaging

(PhysOrg.com) -- A research team from Northeastern University has developed a new nanolens that can beat the diffraction limit to achieve so-called super-resolution imaging, better than can be achieved by current technology. ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 18, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (24) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

General Electric Develops a 500GB Optical Disc

(PhysOrg.com) -- G.E. has unveiled a 500 GB micro-holographic disc that is the same size as existing DVD's. The storage capacity is equivalent to 100 DVD's and is aimed at the archive industry but eventually ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (22) | comments 12 weblog

Renowned physicist invents microscope that can peer at living brain cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ever since scientists began studying the brain, they’ve wanted to get a better look at what was going on. Researchers have poked and prodded and looked at dead cells under electron microscopes, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (20) | comments 7 | with audio podcast report

Brown dwarf pair mystifies astronomers

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two brown dwarf-sized objects orbiting a giant old star show that planets may assemble around stars more quickly and efficiently than anyone thought possible, according to an international ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (18) | comments 1

Pioneering images of both martian moons (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the very first time, the martian moons Phobos and Deimos have been caught on camera together. ESA's Mars Express orbiter took these pioneering images last month. Apart from their ‘wow’ ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 0

Scientists see water ice in fresh meteorite craters on Mars

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists are seeing sub-surface water ice that may be 99 percent pure halfway between the north pole and the equator on Mars, thanks to quick-turnaround observations from orbit of fresh ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 3

Scanner scans a 200 page book in one minute (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Japanese researchers are developing a super-fast scanner that will be able to scan a book of about 200 pages in a minute without any need to break up or flatten the book.

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 18, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (16) | comments 8 | with audio podcast report

Scientists find metallic magnet with largest yet atomic displacement during thermal expansion

(PhysOrg.com) -- Although most materials change shape in the presence of a magnetic field, the change is usually very small. In a new study, scientists have found that a certain magnet containing manganese experiences a change ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jul 30, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (16) | comments 5 | with audio podcast feature

Novel Superlens Offers a Simplified Subwavelength Imaging Technique

(PhysOrg.com) -- Since the first demonstrations of subwavelength imaging just a few years ago, scientists have been making great improvements, developing a variety of new methods for realizing high-resolution imaging. Recently, ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created May 11, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (16) | comments 1 weblog

Geological landforms indicate 'recent' warm weather on Mars

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research led by a UK scientist indicates that Mars had significantly warmer weather in its recent past than previously thought. The research, funded by the UK’s Science and Technology ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 7

World's first 'live' video feed of Earth from space

(PhysOrg.com) -- The world's first high definition streaming video camera to be installed on the International Space Station (ISS) has been announced by David Willetts, Minister for Universities and Science ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 05, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Winds of change strike Mars, too

Mysterious dark sand dunes around Mars' northern polar cap are shifting with the seasons, as carbon dioxide gas changes form and sparks landscape-altering avalanches, said a study published Thursday.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 03, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 7 | with audio podcast