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Scientists solve mystery of the eye

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have a good overall understanding of human vision: when light enters our eyes, it is focused by the lens and strikes the retina in the back of the eye. The light causes some of ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (64) | comments 14 | with audio podcast feature

Physicists Explain How Human Eyes Can Detect Quantum Effects

(PhysOrg.com) -- By greatly amplifying one photon from an entangled photon pair, physicists have theoretically shown that human eyes can be used as detectors to observe quantum effects. Usually, detecting ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (48) | comments 19 feature

Professor proposes challenge to prove whether people can see entangled images

(PhysOrg.com) -- Geraldo Barbosa, professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Northwestern University has posed an interesting challenge. He wonders if the human eye and brain together are ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (9) | comments 5 | with audio podcast report

High-quality white light produced by four-color laser source

(PhysOrg.com) -- The human eye is as comfortable with white light generated by diode lasers as with that produced by increasingly popular light-emitting diodes (LEDs), according to tests conceived at Sandia ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 19 | with audio podcast

New technique that scrambles light may lead to sharper images, wider views

When photographers zoom in on an object to see it better, they lose the wide-angle perspective -- they are forced to trade off "big picture" context for detail. But now an imaging method developed by Princeton ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (15) | comments 3

Researchers develop optimal algorithm for determining focus error in eyes and cameras

University of Texas at Austin researchers have discovered how to extract and use information in an individual image to determine how far objects are from the focus distance, a feat only accomplished by human and animal visual ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

LED lights point shoppers in the right direction

Looking for an item in a large department store or mall can be like searching for a needle in a haystack, but that could change thanks to a hybrid location-identification system that uses radio frequency transmitters and ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Terminator-style info-vision takes step towards reality

The streaming of real-time information across your field of vision is a step closer to reality with the development of a prototype contact lens that could potentially provide the wearer with hands-free information ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

New invisibility cloak hides objects from human view

For the first time, scientists have devised an invisibility cloak material that hides objects from detection using light that is visible to humans. The new device is a leap forward in cloaking materials, according to a report ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 27, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (15) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Baby's first dreams: Research reveals sleep cycles in early fetus

After about seven months growing in the womb, a human fetus spends most of its time asleep. Its brain cycles back and forth between the frenzied activity of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and the quiet resting ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 13, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 3

Study uncovers clues to what makes anesthetics work

Physicians use inhalation anesthetics in a way that is incredibly safe for patients, but very little is known about the intricacies of how these drugs actually work in children and adults. Now, researchers have uncovered ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Webb telescope technologies already helping human eyes

Even while construction of the James Webb Space Telescope is underway on the most advanced infrared vision of any space observatory, its technologies are already proving useful to human eye health here on ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Scientists offer new insights into early eye evolution

Scientists at the University of Hawaii at Manoa's Kewalo Marine Laboratory in Honolulu have discovered light-detecting cells in the embryo of a brachiopod, a marine invertebrate, whose organization may be similar to the primitive ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Iridescence invisible to human eye enables bees to view flowers in different colours

(PhysOrg.com) -- Bees see some flowers in multicolour because of previously unknown iridescence of the petals, usually invisible to the human eye, researchers from the University of Cambridge report this week ...

Biology /

created Jan 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Vigilant camera eye

An innovative camera system could in future enhance security in public areas and buildings. Smart Eyes works just like the human eye. The system analyzes the recorded data in real time and then immediately ...

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 20, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast