News tagged with progressive lenses

Two pairs of specs in one: Touch of finger changes prescription

If you're over 45 and wear glasses, you've probably got more than one pair. Or you're using bifocals or progressive lenses. As most people get older, their eyes have more trouble focusing on objects that are close, which ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Oct 10, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Electronic spectacles coming to market soon

(PhysOrg.com) -- US company PixelOptics has invented electronic spectacles that can automatically change focus as you lower your head to read a book, and could spell the end of the bifocal.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jun 23, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (19) | comments 5 | with audio podcast report




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Biochip-based device for cell analysis

(Phys.org) -- Inexpensive, portable devices that can rapidly screen cells for leukemia or HIV may soon be possible thanks to a chip that can produce three-dimensional focusing of a stream of cells, according ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created May 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Australia's Barrier Reef to get Google treatment

Australian scientists mapping the Great Barrier Reef will broadcast their findings in partnership with Google, emulating its "Street View" to spotlight the impact of climate change.

Technology / Other

created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Hubble zooms in on a magnified galaxy

(PhysOrg.com) -- Thanks to the presence of a natural "zoom lens" in space, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope got a uniquely close-up look at the brightest "magnified" galaxy yet discovered.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (13) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Repulsive gravity as an alternative to dark energy (Part 1: In voids)

(PhysOrg.com) -- When scientists discovered in 1998 that the Universe is expanding at an accelerating rate, the possibility that dark energy could explain the observation was intriguing. But because there ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (49) | comments 125 | with audio podcast report

Science magazine honors web site that makes physics come alive

Physics professor Wolfgang Christian learned about the wonder of science when he was very young. Among the toys Christian's engineer father introduced to his son were electric trains, magnets, and lenses.

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Ultrafine processing technology continues its evolution

The performance of optical and electronic components such as lenses and semiconductors is strongly influenced by the precision of surface grinding, which involves shaping the surface, and polishing, and provides ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A second look at supernovae light: Universe's expansion may be understood without dark energy

(PhysOrg.com) -- The 2011 Nobel Prize in physics, awarded just a few weeks ago, went to research on the light from Type 1a supernovae, which shows that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. The ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 24, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (52) | comments 185 | with audio podcast feature

Tools of the trade: Diamonds are forever ... for focusing intense X-rays

(PhysOrg.com) -- Diamonds can add more than sparkle and style to X-ray experiments at the Linac Coherent Light Source.

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Reducing stress in multilayer laue lenses

Multilayer Laue lenses (MLLs) developed at the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science’s Advanced Photon Source (APS) focus high-energy x-rays so tightly they can detect objects as small as 16 nanometers ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Sep 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Chilled atoms are going to heat up scientific opportunities

A collection of atoms in the basement of Small Hall is a million times colder than outer space. It’s one of the coldest spots in the universe, but it’s not cold enough. Yet.

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 20, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 6


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