News tagged with stray light

New device exposes explosive vapors

Decades after the bullets have stopped flying, wars can leave behind a lingering danger: landmines that maim civilians and render land unusable for agriculture. Minefields are a humanitarian disaster throughout the world, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Developing fuel cell-powered mobile lighting application

Sandia National Laboratories, with help from The Boeing Company, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), and others, is leading an effort to develop a commercially viable, fuel cell-powered ...

Technology / Engineering

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Sensing the infrared: Researchers improve infrared detectors using single-walled carbon nanotubes

(Phys.org) -- Whether used in telescopes or optoelectronic communications, infrared detectors must be continuously cooled to avoid being overwhelmed by stray thermal radiation. Now, a team of researchers from ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Hubble sees the eye of the storm in galaxy cluster

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope could seem like a quiet patch of sky at first glance. But zooming into the central part of a galaxy cluster — one of the largest structures of the Universe ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 05, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Tiny hitchhikers attack cancer cells: Gold nanostars first to deliver drug directly to cancer cell nucleus

Nanotechnology offers powerful new possibilities for targeted cancer therapies, but the design challenges are many. Northwestern University scientists now are the first to develop a simple but specialized nanoparticle that ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

How black holes grow: New study indicates they eat binary star partners

A study led by a University of Utah astrophysicist found a new explanation for the growth of supermassive black holes in the center of most galaxies: they repeatedly capture and swallow single stars from pairs ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

The amazing technology that crafted the Webb Telescope technology

The creation of the next generation James Webb Space Telescope was only possible as a result of imagining and developing the industrial machines that would make it a reality. In the near future, some of that ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

'Dark plasmons' transmit energy

Microscopic channels of gold nanoparticles have the ability to transmit electromagnetic energy that starts as light and propagates via "dark plasmons," according to researchers at Rice University.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Review: Everybody's streaming Netflix, but what?

Netflix's streaming-video audience of more than 20 million subscribers has led many to label it a kind of digital TV network, and one that may grow into an HBO rival - if it's not already.

Technology / Business

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 7

Computing with light: Research produces long-sought component to allow complete optical circuits on silicon chips

There has been enormous progress in recent years toward the development of photonic chips — devices that use light beams instead of electrons to carry out their computational tasks. Now, researchers at ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (18) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

New 'super-black' material absorbs light across multiple wavelength bands

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA engineers have produced a material that absorbs on average more than 99 percent of the ultraviolet, visible, infrared, and far-infrared light that hits it -- a development that promises ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 32 | with audio podcast

K-B mirrors harness X-rays for science

(PhysOrg.com) -- Up close, they look simple as can be: a pair of metal bars, each with one side polished to a brilliant shine. One bar faces up, the other to one side.

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 12, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast


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