The first room-temperature light detector that can sense the full infrared spectrum has the potential to put heat vision technology into a contact lens.
Nanophysics
Mar 16, 2014
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A $500 "nano-camera" that can operate at the speed of light has been developed by researchers in the MIT Media Lab.
Engineering
Nov 26, 2013
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Sisoft Company in Mexico has developed a technology that can illuminate a large work space, an auditorium or an office, while providing full mobile internet to every device that comes into the range of the light spectrum.
Telecom
Jul 16, 2014
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Adding noise to enhance a weak signal is a sensing phenomenon common in the animal world but unusual in manmade sensors. Now Penn State researchers have added a small amount of background noise to enhance very weak signals ...
General Physics
Sep 3, 2020
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Space, the final frontier. The starship Enterprise pursues its mission to explore the galaxy, when all communication channels are suddenly cut off by an impenetrable nebula. In many episodes of the iconic TV series, the valiant ...
Optics & Photonics
May 31, 2022
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Scientists from The University of Manchester have found a way to trick the eye into thinking the world is brighter than it actually is.
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 28, 2019
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Researchers at the University of Copenhagen's Niels Bohr Institute have developed a new way to create quantum memory: A small drum can store data sent with light in its sonic vibrations, and then forward the data with new ...
Optics & Photonics
Apr 15, 2024
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Intel today announced an important advance in the quest to use light beams to replace the use of electrons to carry data in and around computers.
Electronics & Semiconductors
Jul 27, 2010
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It may seem like technology advances year after year, as if by magic. But behind every incremental improvement and breakthrough revolution is a team of scientists and engineers hard at work.
General Physics
Jul 1, 2022
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Tiny and industrious, ants are models of teamwork and efficiency. The picnic-wrecking insects could also teach city planners a thing or two about how to optimize the timing of traffic signals, according to students at the ...
Mathematics
Jun 13, 2016
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