Discovery is unleashing the first videos for its virtual reality network, Discovery VR, a fledgling service that is testing the limits and capabilities of the immersive format.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Aug 27, 2015
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Researchers have designed a new compact camera that acquires wide-angle images of high-quality using an array of metalenses—flat nanopatterned surfaces used to manipulate light. By eliminating the bulky and heavy lenses ...
Optics & Photonics
Apr 14, 2022
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Colors are produced in a variety of ways. The best known colors are pigments. However, the very bright colors of the blue tarantula or peacock feathers do not result from pigments, but from nanostructures that cause the reflected ...
Nanomaterials
Nov 17, 2016
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New research shows that sunspots and other active regions can change the overall solar emissions. The sunspots cause some emissions to dim and others to brighten; the timing of the changes also varies between different types ...
Astronomy
Oct 12, 2020
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Conventional 3D displays, such as stereo displays with glasses and glass-free autostereoscopic displays, show two-dimensional images for each eye. Therefore, users experience incongruity and eyestrain owing to these pseudo-3D ...
Nanophysics
Apr 19, 2016
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Ninety years after Edwin Hubble discovered the systematic motions of galaxies and George Lemaitre explained them as cosmic expansion from a point using Einstein's equations of relativity, observational cosmology today is ...
Astronomy
Jan 4, 2021
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At the upcoming Integrate exhibition in Sydney this month, Panasonic will preview a unique ultra-wide angle camera system (UWCS) that stitches together the images of four High Definition Cameras in real time to create a dramatic ...
Hi Tech & Innovation
Aug 29, 2013
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For the first time, high-energy muon particles created in the atmosphere have allowed researchers to explore the structures of storms in a way that traditional visualization techniques, such as satellite imaging, cannot. ...
Environment
Oct 7, 2022
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Inspired by the varying colors that gleam off of beetle shells, scientists have developed color-shifting nanoparticles that can change hue even after being embedded into a material. A report on the new, inexpensive technique, ...
Materials Science
Jun 14, 2017
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