News tagged with resolutions

SLAC X-ray laser used to probe biomolecules to individual atoms

An international team led by SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has proved how the world's most powerful X-ray laser can assist in cracking the structures of biomolecules, and in the processes helped to ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

LG Display will release HD panel for smartphones

(Phys.org) -- LG Display is getting ready to showcase a five-inch smartphone display that turns out to be a full HD LCD panel supporting up to 1080p video, something like having a high-quality TV in your hand. ...

Electronics / Hardware

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 12 | with audio podcast report

'Transformer' protein makes different sized transport pods

These spheres may look almost identical, but subtle differences between them revealed a molecular version of the robots from Transformers. Each sphere is a vesicle, a pod that cells use to transport materials ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Subaru telescope pioneers the use of adaptive optics for optical observations

A research team from the University of Tokyo/Kavli IPMU, Ehime University, and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) has succeeded in conducting the first, full-scale scientific observationswith ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

OmniVision tops up sensors for cameras, phones

(Phys.org) -- OmniVision has announced two high-resolution image sensors for the digital still and digital video camera market (DS/DVC) and higher end smartphones. In end-user language, it is a claim for superior ...

Electronics / Hardware

created May 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

NLT announces naked-eye display with better 3-D view

(Phys.org) -- NLT Technologies has announced its development of an autostereoscopic multiview display based on the success of its HxDP technology. HxDP stands for Horizontally x times Density Pixels. The company ...

Electronics / Hardware

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 4 | with audio podcast report

Study shows religion is a potent force for cooperation, conflict

Across history and cultures, religion increases trust within groups but also may increase conflict with other groups, according to an article in a special issue of Science.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 17, 2012 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (9) | comments 119 | with audio podcast

Samsung defends Android Galaxy S3 PenTile display

(Phys.org) -- So what's a hot new Galaxy S3 smartphone doing with a PenTile AMOLED display like this? That is a question that surprised developers and smartphone blog sites earlier this month when Samsung ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created May 14, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

New ultra-thin electronic films have greater capacity

(Phys.org) -- The development of a new combination of polymers associating sugars with oil-based macromolecules makes it possible to design ultra-thin films capable of self-organization with a 5-nanometer ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Global prices of pollination-dependent products such as coffee could rise in the long term: study

In recent years the economic value of pollination-dependent crops has substantially increased around the world. As a team of researchers from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), the Technical ...

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 27, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A TV 4 times sharper than HD

Now that you've got a high-definition TV, you may want to start saving up for a super-high-definition one.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 48

Researchers find new form of Mars lava flow

High-resolution photos of lava flows on Mars reveal coiling spiral patterns that resemble snail or nautilus shells. Such patterns have been found in a few locations on Earth, but never before on Mars. The ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Computing the best high-resolution 3-D tissue images

Real-time, 3-D microscopic tissue imaging could be a revolution for medical fields such as cancer diagnosis, minimally invasive surgery and ophthalmology. University of Illinois researchers have developed ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Compressed sensing allows super-resolution microscopy imaging of live cell structures

(Phys.org) -- Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and University of California San Francisco have advanced scientists’ ability to view a clear picture of a single cellular structure in ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

12-mile-high Martian dust devil caught in act

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Martian dust devil roughly 12 miles high (20 kilometers) was captured whirling its way along the Amazonis Planitia region of Northern Mars on March 14. It was imaged by the High Resolution ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 7 | with audio podcast