Fibre optic research can give us better medical equipment, improved environmental monitoring, more media channels—and maybe better solar panels.
Optics & Photonics
May 23, 2019
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Collagen fibrils are a major component of the connective tissues found throughout the animal kingdom. The cable-like assemblies of long biological molecules combine to form tissues as varied as skin, corneas, tendons or bones. ...
Materials Science
May 13, 2019
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Researchers have shown that existing optical fibre technology could be used to produce microscopic 3-D images of tissue inside the body, paving the way towards 3-D optical biopsies.
Optics & Photonics
Apr 26, 2019
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Biotechnologists, physicists, and medical researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have developed technology for microscopic imaging in living organisms. A miniaturised multi-photon microscope, ...
Optics & Photonics
Apr 17, 2019
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Beneath many cities are complex networks of optical fibres that carry data, encoded in pulses of light, to offices and homes. Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Singtel, Asia's leading communications ...
Optics & Photonics
Apr 5, 2019
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Researchers from the University of Nottingham have found a much higher percentage of 'natural' fibres than microplastic fibres in freshwater and atmospheric samples in the UK.
Environment
Mar 22, 2019
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While it's not a case of reinventing the wheel, researchers are looking at ways to improve standard braking equipment on trains and cars.
Materials Science
Mar 14, 2019
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In a small workshop just outside Tokyo, mechanics hammer, weld and measure as they craft "the Porsche of wheelchairs" for the world's top Paralympic athletes ahead of the 2020 Games.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Mar 12, 2019
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In information technology, multiplexing schemes are used to transmit more signals than the number of available transmission channels. Researchers at ETH in Zurich have invented a novel method whereby information is encoded ...
Telecom
Mar 1, 2019
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The quantum world is notoriously complex, its multiple layers and miniscule components eluding standard analytical approaches.
General Physics
Feb 26, 2019
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