News tagged with wave spectroscopy
Exploring the last white spot on Earth: ESRF inaugurates unique new X-ray facility
Scientists will soon be exploring matter at temperatures and pressures so extreme it can only be produced for microseconds using powerful pulsed lasers. Matter in such states is present in the Earth's liquid ...
Nov 10, 2011 |
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Using 'dark channel' fluorescence, scientists explain how biochemical substances carry out their function
Spectroscopic techniques are among the most important methods by which scientists can look inside materials. They exploit the interaction of light waves with a given sample.
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Aug 08, 2010 |
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Researchers create 3-D invisibility cloak: study
European researchers have taken the world a step closer to fictional wizard Harry Potter's invisibility cape after they made an object disappear using a three-dimensional "cloak", a study published Thursday in the US-based ...
Mar 18, 2010 |
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Look at Mie! Team tests century-old calculations
Calculations are fine, but seeing is believing. That's the thought behind a new paper by Rice University students who decided to put to the test calculations made more than a century ago.
Mar 13, 2010 |
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'Normal' cells far from cancer give nanosignals of trouble
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new Northwestern University-led study of human colon, pancreatic and lung cells is the first to report that cancer cells and their non-cancerous cell neighbors, although quite different under the microscope, ...
Jul 07, 2009 |
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Nanoscopic changes to pancreatic cells reveal cancer
A team of researchers in Chicago has developed a way to examine cell biopsies and detect never-before-seen signs of early-stage pancreatic cancer, according to a new paper in the Optical Society (OSA) journal Optics Letters. Though ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 13, 2009 |
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