News tagged with photos
Solar-powered process could decrease carbon dioxide to pre-industrial levels in 10 years
(PhysOrg.com) -- By using the sun's visible light and heat to power an electrolysis cell that captures and converts carbon dioxide from the air, a new technique could impressively clean the atmosphere and ...
Jul 22, 2010 |
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Android mug shots have no lock and key
(PhysOrg.com) -- If Google loyalists will persist that this Internet Goliath can do no evil, they at least need to admit, based on new evidence this week, that Google can do a lot of mindless harm. A security ...
Mar 04, 2012 |
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OrcaM is new kid on block for 3-D data capture
(PhysOrg.com) -- Call it automated photograph station, seven-camera system, 3-D model showcase, or digital reconstruction tool. OrcaM is being described as all these things. Whatever the tag, the "OrcaM" name ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Jan 21, 2012 |
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UIUC team will show can't-tell photo inserts at Siggraph (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Visitors to this month's Siggraph Asia conference on computer graphics from December 12 to 15 will witness a presentation from a team at the University of Illinois in Urbana Champaign on how ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 08, 2011 |
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Adobe shows off new 'undo photo blur' feature
(PhysOrg.com) -- Despite all the advances in digital photography, most people are still plagued by the problem of blurry photos, a problem compounded by the use of cameras embedded in cell phones due to their small size. ...
Oct 13, 2011 |
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What makes an image memorable? We tend to remember pictures of people much better than wide open spaces
Next time you go on vacation, you may want to think twice before shooting hundreds of photos of that scenic mountain or lake.
Technology / Computer Sciences
May 24, 2011 |
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CERN's new Einstein Observatory to explore black holes, Big Bang
A new era in astronomy will come a step closer when scientists from across Europe present their design study today for an advanced observatory capable of making precision measurements of gravitational waves ...
May 19, 2011 |
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See your photos in 3D on new website
(PhysOrg.com) -- You could turn your holiday snaps or favourite figurines into three-dimensional images with new free software developed by a researcher from Queensland University of Technology and the Australasian ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jul 09, 2009 |
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Apple iPhone to Receive Some Upgrades
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Apple iPhone is one of the most versatile smart phones around today and it's about to get better. The news of what the next generation iPhone will be like is traveling fast.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
May 26, 2009 |
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Analysis of Flickr photos could lead to online travel books
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell scientists have downloaded and analyzed nearly 35 million Flickr photos taken by more than 300,000 photographers from around the globe, using a supercomputer at the Cornell Center ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 28, 2009 |
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New method could lead to narrower chip patterns
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at MIT have found a novel method for etching extremely narrow lines on a microchip, using a material that can be switched from transparent to opaque, and vice versa, just by exposing it to certain ...
Apr 10, 2009 |
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A human failure, seen at face value
(PhysOrg.com) -- Humans excel at recognizing faces, but how we do this has been an abiding mystery in neuroscience and psychology. In an effort to explain our success in this area, researchers are taking a ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 13, 2009 |
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Researchers develop camera for the blind
(PhysOrg.com) -- Elizabeth Goldring smiles as she shows a visitor photos she's taken — and can see — with her blind eye.
Jan 12, 2009 |
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Discovery of historical photos sheds light on Greenland ice loss
A chance discovery of 80-year-old photo plates in a Danish basement is providing new insight into how Greenland glaciers are melting today.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 29, 2012 |
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Facebook buys Instagram photo app for $1 bn
Facebook on Monday announced a billion-dollar-deal to buy the startup behind wildly popular smartphone photo sharing application Instagram.
Apr 09, 2012 |
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Photograph
A photograph (often shortened to photo) is an image created by light falling on a light-sensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic imager such as a CCD or a CMOS chip. Most photographs are created using a camera, which uses a lens to focus the scene's visible wavelengths of light into a reproduction of what the human eye would see. The process and practice of creating photographs is called photography. The word "photograph" coined 1839 by Sir John Herschel and is based on the Greek φώς (phos), "light" + γραφίς (graphis), "stylus", "paintbrush" or γραφή (graphê), "representation by means of lines" or "drawing", together meaning "drawing with light".
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