NPL makes light work of home grooming
The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and the University of Dundee recently assessed the light emitted by a home-use intense-pulsed light (IPL) hair reduction system and confirmed that it is safe. This confirmation is important, ...
Mar 01, 2010 |
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Micro-ear lets scientists eavesdrop on the micro-world
(PhysOrg.com) -- Acting as a microscope for sound, a new device called a micro-ear could make objects on the micro-scale audible. The device could enable scientists to listen to the sounds that cells and bacteria ...
Feb 26, 2010 |
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CU physicists use ultra-fast lasers to open doors to new technologies unheard of just years ago
(PhysOrg.com) -- For nearly half a century, scientists have been trying to figure out how to build a cost-effective and reasonably sized X-ray laser that could, among other things, provide super high-resolution ...
Feb 22, 2010 |
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Using Gold Nanoparticles to Hit Cancer Where It Hurts
(PhysOrg.com) -- Taking gold nanoparticles to the cancer cell and hitting them with a laser has been shown to be a promising tool in fighting cancer, but what about cancers that occur in places where a laser light can’t reach? ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 15, 2010 |
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Researchers Find New Way To Study How Enzymes Repair DNA Damage
Researchers at Ohio State University have found a new way to study how enzymes move as they repair DNA sun damage -- and that discovery could one day lead to new therapies for healing sunburned skin.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 28, 2010 |
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Wireless optical transmission key to secure, safe and rapid indoor communications
Light is better than radio waves when it comes to some wireless communications, according to Penn State engineers. Optical communications systems could provide faster, more secure communications with wider bandwidth and would ...
Jan 27, 2010 |
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Going For Exawatts: Building the most powerful laser in the world
Producing a laser with a power of a terawatt -- equal to one trillion watts -- used to be impressive, but now the forefront of optical research power is measured in 1 quadrillion-watt units known as petawatts. ...
Jan 25, 2010 |
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How 'random' lasers work
When University of Utah scientists discovered a new kind of laser that was generated by an electrically conducting plastic or polymer, no one could explain how it worked and some doubted it was real. Now, ...
Jan 24, 2010 |
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Optical Refrigeration: Researchers Achieve Milestone in Laser Cooling
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of New Mexico have established a new low in temperature cooling through laser cooling of solids to cryogenic temperatures. Under an AFOSR, MURI grant, a team ...
Jan 19, 2010 |
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Tying light in knots
(PhysOrg.com) -- The remarkable feat of tying light in knots has been achieved by a team of physicists working at the universities of Bristol, Glasgow and Southampton, UK, reports a paper in Nature Physics this w ...
Jan 17, 2010 |
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Introducing the Light Touch interactive projector (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- UK-based company Light Blue Optics has introduced an extremely compact projector that converts any flat surface into an interactive touch video screen.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jan 11, 2010 |
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Tiny whispering gallery: Sensor can detect a single nanoparticle and take its measurement
(PhysOrg.com) -- Nanotechnology has already made it to the shelves of your local pharmacy and grocery: nanoparticles are found in anti-odor socks, makeup, makeup remover, sunscreen, anti-graffiti paint, home ...
Dec 18, 2009 |
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Caltech scientists film photons with electrons
(PhysOrg.com) -- Techniques recently invented by researchers at the California Institute of Technology -- which allow the real-time, real-space visualization of fleeting changes in the structure of nanoscale ...
Dec 16, 2009 |
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First Pump-Probe Experiment at Linac Coherent Light Source Completed
(PhysOrg.com) -- The first experiment using the Linac Coherent Light Source to illuminate molecules via a "pump-probe" technique has been completed by an international team of more than 30 scientists from ...
Nov 30, 2009 |
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Scientists demonstrate multibeam, multi-functional lasers
An international team of applied scientists from Harvard, Hamamatsu Photonics, and ETH Zürich have demonstrated compact, multibeam, and multi-wavelength lasers emitting in the invisible part of the light spectrum ...
Nov 30, 2009 |
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