(Phys.org) —A research team using tunable luminescent nanocrystals as tags to advance medical and security imaging have successfully applied them to high-speed scanning technology and detected multiple viruses within minutes.
Bio & Medicine
May 7, 2014
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A powerful camera is being developed that will enable scientists to examine living cells in unprecedented detail.
Engineering
Apr 14, 2014
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The complexity of biology can befuddle even the most sophisticated light microscopes. Biological samples bend light in unpredictable ways, returning difficult-to-interpret information to the microscope and distorting the ...
General Physics
Apr 13, 2014
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For most people, infrared technology calls to mind soldiers with night-vision goggles or energy audits that identify where heat escapes from homes during the winter season.
Engineering
Mar 21, 2014
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Mark Simons, professor of geophysics at Caltech, along with graduate student Brent Minchew, recently logged over 40 hours of flight time mapping the surface of Iceland's glaciers. Flying over two comparatively small ice caps, ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 14, 2014
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A crowdsourcing effort to locate the missing Malaysia Airlines plane using satellite imagery overloaded the computer network with an "unprecedented" amount of traffic, the technology company said Tuesday.
Other
Mar 11, 2014
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Scientists have demonstrated how new satellite technology can be used to count whales, and ultimately estimate their population size. Using Very High Resolution (VHR) satellite imagery, alongside image processing software, ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 12, 2014
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Andre Bezanson is still working on his PhD, but he's already making waves in the field of ultrasound imaging.
General Physics
Feb 4, 2014
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An international team of researchers has greatly expanded the potential for NMR analysis apparatus. They have made it possible to measure all the signals of a substance with a single, newly developed miniature antenna, while ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jan 14, 2014
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Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have received a $540,000 federal grant to devise methods for building minute structures tailored to precisely deliver medicines to tumors or carry dyes that help imaging technologies ...
Nanomaterials
Jan 13, 2014
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