Skoltech researchers have refined a technique used in bilirubin blood tests for diagnosing newborn jaundice and fine-tuning phototherapy prescribed for it. Jaundice affects up to 80% of preterm infants, who are treated with ...
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 13, 2023
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Polarimetric images can provide information such as shading and surface morphologies by using polarizers that selectively reflect the transverse electric (TE) field and transmit the transverse magnetic (TM) field of unpolarized ...
Polymers
Dec 27, 2022
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Metalenses, compact lenses made with metasurfaces, have the potential to enable thinner, lighter, cheaper, and better imaging systems for a wide range of applications where miniaturization is critical (e.g., for mobile devices, ...
Optics & Photonics
Dec 2, 2022
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Despite all the bad news the COVID-19 pandemic brought upon the world, it has helped us gain a better perspective of our readiness to fend off highly contagious diseases. Rapid diagnostic test kits and PCR testing quickly ...
Optics & Photonics
Apr 21, 2022
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Making a dark human hair transparent, or even an opaque bar of silicon: this optical "sorcery" is possible by manipulating the incident light. This new phenomenon is called "mutual extinction and transparency." Until now ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 18, 2021
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"All the roads of learning begin in the darkness and go out into the light." This quote is often attributed to Hippocrates and exhibits a double level of relevance in photosynthesis research. The use of light by plant leaves ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 16, 2020
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The first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the USA was on January 20, 2020 in Washington State. Since then, there have been over two million confirmed cases and 113,000 deaths in the country. A shortage of tests has beleaguered ...
Social Sciences
Jun 17, 2020
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Recently, researchers at Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have proposed a new kind of telescope structure, a Theon-Kepler bifocal telescope, to realize radial-shearing interferometry ...
Optics & Photonics
Jun 10, 2020
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Hokkaido University scientists have fabricated a crystal that autonomously flips back and forth while changing its flipping patterns in response to lighting conditions. Their findings, published in a Chemistry Europe's journal, ...
Materials Science
May 13, 2020
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In the present context of concerning CO2 levels and sustainability issues, the search for efficient and clean alternatives for producing energy continues. Among the most attractive ecofriendly fuels known, hydrogen stands ...
Materials Science
Apr 30, 2020
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