Scientists have harnessed Internet-transmitting fiber-optic cables to overcome a long-standing geophysical challenge: identifying where seismic noise in the ocean originates. Tiny vibrations of Earth called microseisms are ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 3, 2022
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Gardens in Tokyo should work together to disperse visitors and avoid the negative effects of overtourism, suggests a new study at the University of Tokyo.
Social Sciences
Sep 29, 2022
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A team from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a high-sensitivity differential Helmholtz photoacoustic cell and successfully applied it to methane detection.
Optics & Photonics
Sep 28, 2022
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Miniaturized sensors mounted upon optical fibers are widely recognized as an important future solution to instant and point-of-care medical diagnosis and on-site agricultural produce inspection. Plasmonic devices on the flat ...
Optics & Photonics
Sep 21, 2022
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Microwave field sensors are important in practice for a variety of applications across astronomy and communication engineering. The nitrogen vacancy center in diamond allows magnetometric sensitivity, stability and compatibility ...
Texas A&M University researchers accomplished what was once considered impossible—they created a device capable of squeezing the quantum fluctuations of light down to a directed path and used it to enhance contrast imaging.
Optics & Photonics
Sep 19, 2022
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A bay-breasted warbler weighs about the same as four pennies, but twice a year makes an extraordinary journey. The tiny songbird flies nearly 4,000 miles (6,437 kilometers) between Canada's spruce forests and its wintering ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 15, 2022
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Two-photon microscopy (2PM) plays a reliably efficient role in noninvasive deep-tissue imaging in biomedical investigation. Since the invention of the two-photon microscope at the end of the 20th century, there has been a ...
Optics & Photonics
Sep 13, 2022
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Designing instruments for spacecraft missions is an exercise in managing trade-offs. With severe restrictions on power, mass, and volume, space-based instruments are often compromised in ways an equivalent laboratory instrument ...
Planetary Sciences
Aug 30, 2022
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As climate change increases the number of extreme weather events, such as megadroughts, groundwater management is key for sustaining water supply. But current groundwater monitoring tools are either costly or insufficient ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 23, 2022
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