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Optics & Photonics Nov 29, 2021

Researchers shrink camera to the size of a salt grain

Micro-sized cameras have great potential to spot problems in the human body and enable sensing for super-small robots, but past approaches captured fuzzy, distorted images with limited fields of view.

Astronomy Nov 17, 2021

Study sheds more light on the nature of galaxy cluster ACT-CL J0019.6+0336

An international team of astronomers has performed a multiwavelength study of a galaxy cluster known as ACT-CL J0019.6+0336 (J0019 for short). Results of the research, published November 8 on the arXiv pre-print repository, ...

Planetary Sciences Nov 17, 2021

In-orbit test conducted on polarization crossfire sensor suite aboard China's hyperspectral Earth Observation satellite

An in-orbit test of the polarization crossfire (PCF) sensor suite onboard GaoFen-5 (02), a hyperspectral Earth Observation satellite launched on September 7, 2021, was carried out by a joint research team led by Prof. Li ...

Materials Science Nov 9, 2021

Long-term carbon dioxide emissions from cement production can be drastically reduced

Global warming and affordable housing are two dominant topics of public debate. Climate protection is achieved by reducing emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2). Housing is generated through more housing being ...

Environment Nov 8, 2021

Climate words and climate deeds

With the U.N. Council of Parties (COP26) starting in full swing last week, the world was filled with news from the Climate Industry's biggest trade show. These meetings have the value of focusing attention on this critical ...

Plants & Animals Oct 14, 2021

Adapting crops for future climate conditions

With crops, farmers will adapt—they always have and always will. To help this adaptation, however, a Texas A&M AgriLife research project has used artificial intelligence modeling to determine what traits cultivars will ...

General Physics Oct 11, 2021

Working to understand the changing flavors of quarks

Visible matter, or the stuff that composes the things we see, is made of particles that can be thought of much like building blocks made of more building blocks, ever decreasing in size, down to the sub-atomic level. Atoms ...

Space Exploration Oct 7, 2021

Study demonstrates lunar composition mapping capabilities of spectrograph instrument

A new study by a recent graduate of Southwest Research Institute's joint graduate program in physics with The University of Texas at San Antonio demonstrates the ability of the Lyman-Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) to determine ...

Materials Science Sep 28, 2021

Tweaking alloy microchemistry for flawless metal 3D printing

In the last few decades, metal 3D printing has spearheaded the efforts in creating custom parts of intricate shapes and high functionality. But as additive manufacturers have included more alloys for their 3D printing needs, ...

Materials Science Sep 27, 2021

New world record in materials research: X-ray microscopy at a speed of 1000 tomograms per second

Most people are familiar with computed tomography from medicine: A part of the body is X-rayed from all sides and a three-dimensional image is then calculated, from which any sectional images can be created for diagnosis.

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