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Scientists solve mystery of the eye

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have a good overall understanding of human vision: when light enters our eyes, it is focused by the lens and strikes the retina in the back of the eye. The light causes some of ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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Scientists invent long-lasting, near infrared-emitting material

Materials that emit visible light after being exposed to sunlight are commonplace and can be found in everything from emergency signage to glow-in-the-dark stickers. But until now, scientists have had little ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

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Periodic table of shapes to give a new dimension to maths (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mathematicians are creating their own version of the periodic table that will provide a vast directory of all the possible shapes in the universe across three, four and five dimensions, linking ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

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As cool as the human body: Wise mission discovers coolest class of stars

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists using data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have discovered the coldest class of star-like bodies, with temperatures as cool as the human body.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

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Better than the human eye

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are the first to develop a curvilinear camera, much like the human eye, with the significant feature ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 17, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (21) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Boston Dynamics unwraps military robot AlphaDog (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Boston Dynamics has taken the wraps off its newest prototype combat escort, AlphaDog, which was developed with funding from DARPA and the US Marine Corps. Waltham, Massachusetts-based Boston ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (19) | comments 38 | with audio podcast weblog

Engineers turn noise into vision

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new technique for revealing images of hidden objects may one day allow pilots to peer through fog and doctors to see more precisely into the human body without surgery.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

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The brain of the fly - a high-speed computer

(PhysOrg.com) -- Neurobiologists use state-of-the-art methods to decode the basics of motion detection.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jul 12, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 30 | with audio podcast

Genius of Einstein, Fourier key to new humanlike computer vision

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two new techniques for computer-vision technology mimic how humans perceive three-dimensional shapes by instantly recognizing objects no matter how they are twisted or bent, an advance that ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jun 20, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

10.69 seconds: Robot Ruby breaks Rubik's record (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- The world's fastest Rubik's Cube-solving robot has been developed by students at Swinburne University of Technology.

Electronics / Robotics

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New camouflage technology from BAE hides war machines

(PhysOrg.com) -- BAE Systems says it has a camouflage system that can render battle machines like tanks invisible or even seen as other objects in the immediate environment to protect against attack. The 'cloak' ...

Technology / Engineering

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Australia reveals prototype 'bionic' eye

Bionic Vision Australia (BVA) today unveils their wide-view neurostimulator concept - a bionic eye that will be implanted into Australia's first recipient of the technology.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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Perceptual changes - a key to our consciousness

(PhysOrg.com) -- With his coat billowing behind him and his right eye tightly closed, Captain Blackbeard watches the endless sea with his telescope. Suddenly the sea disappears as the pirate opens his right ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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Researcher: Cell phones could double as night vision devices

(PhysOrg.com) -- Call it Nitelite: The newest app for cell phones might be night vision.

Technology / Engineering

created May 04, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

How the brain recognizes objects

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research have developed a new mathematical model to describe how the human brain visually identifies objects. The model accurately predicts ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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