News tagged with light energy
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Nanoparticles Provide a Targeted Version of Photothermal Therapy for Cancer
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using easily prepared gold nanocages that are able to escape from the blood stream and accumulate in tumors, a team of investigators from the Washington University in St. Louis has shown that they can use ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Apr 23, 2010 |
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Novel negative-index metamaterial that responds to visible light designed
A group of scientists led by researchers from the California Institute of Technology has engineered a type of artificial optical material—a metamaterial—with a particular three-dimensional structure such that ...
Apr 22, 2010 |
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Stanford researchers find electrical current stemming from plants
In an electrifying first, Stanford scientists have plugged in to algae cells and harnessed a tiny electric current. They found it at the very source of energy production - photosynthesis, a plant's method of converting sunlight ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Apr 13, 2010 |
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Sony Develops Highly Efficient RGB Laser Light Source Module for Large Screen Projectors
Sony Corp. today announced the development of a RGB laser light source module suitable for large screen projectors such as digital cinema projectors. The module incorporates high power lasers of the three ...
Mar 09, 2010 |
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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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Solid-state lighting's contributions to national energy efficiency discussed at AAAS meeting
Solid-state lighting and its potential as a near-term generator of energy efficiencies will be the topic of a presentation by Julia Phillips, director of the Physical, Chemical, and Nano Sciences Center at Sandia National ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Feb 21, 2010 |
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Green energy management: How plants cope with variable light conditions
Plants use energy derived from sunlight to form sugars from carbon dioxide and water by the process of photosynthesis. Recent discoveries made by a research group at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet in Munich, Germany, provide ...
Jan 27, 2010 |
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Smart Windows: Energy Efficiency with a View
(PhysOrg.com) -- Buildings consume 40 percent of our nation's energy. NREL is testing and researching electrochromic windows that could knock that back significantly.
Jan 25, 2010 |
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British engineers slam home wind turbines as 'eco-bling'
Installing wind turbines and solar panels in people's homes is "eco-bling" that will not help meet Britain's targets on cutting carbon emissions, engineers warned Wednesday.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jan 20, 2010 |
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What will the Large Hadron Collider reveal?
With its successful test run at the end of 2009, the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland, seized the world record for the highest-energy particle collisions created by mankind. We can now reflect ...
Jan 07, 2010 |
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UMass Amherst Researchers Develop New Microscope So Powerful It Sees Individual Molecules
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are finding that the ability to see very small things -- objects 20,000 times thinner than a human hair -- can help answer big biological questions. That’s why Jennifer Ross, a ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 06, 2010 |
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Tiny nano-electromagnets turn a cloak of invisibility into a possibility
A team of researchers at the FOM institute AMOLF (The Netherlands) has succeeded for the first time in powering an energy transfer between nano-electromagnets with the magnetic field of light.
Dec 22, 2009 |
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Many take dim view of new-fangled Christmas lights
(AP) -- To Steven Walls, it's beginning to look nothing like Christmas, anywhere he goes.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Dec 21, 2009 |
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NASA NuSTAR Telescope Being Built at Nevis
(PhysOrg.com) -- It's an unlikely place to build a NASA telescope: a leafy estate in Irvington, N.Y., that once belonged to the son of Alexander Hamilton. Inside a hangar-like building on the site, which is ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 17, 2009 |
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A light touch: Iron complexes as efficient catalysts for the light-driven extraction of hydrogen from water
(PhysOrg.com) -- Hydrogen is a promising alternative energy carrier that can be efficiently converted into electrical energy in fuel cells. One hurdle to the introduction of sustainable hydrogen technology is the fact that ...
Dec 02, 2009 |
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