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In a study that may have considerable implications for creating new generations of displays for electronic devices, researchers at the Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) managed to develop a technique for controlling the color of nanoparticles. What the team basically did was create ... |
24 February 2012
06:03 GMT |
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Our perception of colors – while pretty good on some occasions – is entirely lacking on others. Researchers highlight two so-called “forbidden colors” that our eyes cannot see due to the very nature of how we perceive colors.
The colors are reddish green and yellowish blue. Just to make matt... |
17 January 2012
11:12 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of the latest study on the issue, it would appear that our galaxy is indeed the color of fresh snow. Researchers were finally able to establish the color of the Milky Way by looking at nearby galaxies of similar properties.
Extrapolating from data they collected during this investigatio... |
16 January 2012
08:12 GMT |
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Astronomers believe they may have just discovered a new way of identifying Earth-like planets around distant stars, by looking for the type of light these celestial bodies reflect. The new technique is based on recent data that the NASA EPOXI mission collected of the planets in our solar system as it was chasing down... |
5 November 2010
03:36 GMT |
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Restructuring the gratings in a new nanoscale filter can result in the production of white and colored light, researchers at the University of Michigan report in a new scientific study. The team here has developed an advanced type of color filter, which is made out of nanoscale sheets of metal, which are impossibly t... |
25 August 2010
04:16 GMT |
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For many years, biologists have been puzzled by the amazing colors that butterflies' wings have. They change depending on how light hits them, and a while ago it was discovered that the hues are not produced by pigments, like in any other living species. It was found that specialized formations of cells, arrange... |
15 June 2010
05:21 GMT |
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One of the things everybody loves about butterflies is the beautiful color their wings have. But these hues are not just aesthetically-pleasing, they also serve additional purposes. The pigments themselves are not plain colors, but reflect light at specific wavelengths and patterns, which makes them all the more inte... |
31 May 2010
05:02 GMT |
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Many people use colors to describe their emotions either unintentionally, or because this is how they learned to do it from their peers and family. Some say that they are green with jealousy, whereas others see red when they are angry. At the same time, depressed people are in a gray mood, but these colors that we at... |
9 February 2010
04:29 GMT |
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It is common knowledge that people wearing white clothes tend to feel more cool in the desert than wearing black clothes. This is because black is a non-color that attracts more photons, and lets fewer get reflected back from whence they came. The same line of reasoning holds true for global warming and incoming sunl... |
29 January 2010
04:00 GMT |
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In a scientific paper published in the latest issue of the esteemed scientific publication Nature, researchers in China detail the appearance of a small dinosaur that lived more than 125 million years ago. Known as Sinosauropteryx, the tiny animal, which wasn't even tall enough to reach your knee, appears to hav... |
28 January 2010
05:05 GMT |
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In a new scientific study conducted on people's perceptions on politicians, it was revealed that people tended to alter the image they had of their candidate (or their opponent) in their mind, depending on preferences. The feelings that the politician incites in a person are a factor that directly influences the... |
24 November 2009
18:01 GMT |
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A group of researchers has determined that, among Caucasians, the color of a person's face is a major factor in determining their attractiveness level for individuals of the opposite gender. A yellowish, light complexion has been determined to be the healthiest, and therefore the most appealing, by a set of expe... |
17 November 2009
13:41 GMT |
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Scientists from the Lund University Vision Group recently discovered that birds require between 5 and 20 times as much light as the human eye does in order to perceive colors. As a direct result, their color vision decays much earlier in the day than our own, for example. More precisely, the experts determined that, ... |
4 November 2009
08:50 GMT |
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A new scientific study seems to indicate that, in their quest for protection from the harmful effects of UV radiation, people may not have to pay the premium prices regularly associated with sun-protective clothing. Experts have recently determined that opting for clothes dyed in blue or red may be just as effective,... |
15 October 2009
08:52 GMT |
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CMOS image sensors are commonly used in special cameras, which provide visual assistance for the visually impaired. But their main disadvantage is that they have relatively poor performances, that they provide only monochrome images, and also that they have a very limited sensitivity to light. A team of experts recen... |
5 October 2009
18:51 GMT |
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Scientists have recently discovered a previously unknown type of structure in birds' wings that is apparently responsible for creating a silver sheen in some species' wings. The weird thing is that, otherwise, these feathers would be completely black, the investigators say. They add that the new phenomenon ... |
21 September 2009
06:52 GMT |
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An American team of researchers from the University of Illinois (UI), led by the Schmidt Professor of Chemistry, Kenneth Suslick, announce the creation of an electronic nose that is able to sniff out toxic industrial chemicals (TIC), in a fast, effective and cheap manner. In a paper published in the September 13th is... |
14 September 2009
03:30 GMT |
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Humans come in a variety of colors, from the darkest brown and black to the most translucent white, but evolutionary biologists don't know yet why these hues appeared, between 100,000 and 50,000 years ago. Their evolution is relatively short-lived, in that, for the largest part of human history, people were of o... |
2 September 2009
03:50 GMT |
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While European poets and writers have for centuries written about the beauty of the yellow canopies in autumn, their American and Asian counterparts have mostly described the foliages as having a reddish hint to them. The difference is still visible today, and botanists set out to investigate precisely why that is so... |
16 August 2009
09:16 GMT |
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Scientists in the United States looking into ways of stopping progressive spinal cord injuries following accidents may have stumbled upon a method of doing this that actually works. In their experiments, they used the dye known as Brilliant Blue G (BBG), which is similar to those used to color foods. The University o... |
28 July 2009
05:55 GMT |
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Japanese-Swedish joint venture Sony Ericsson seems determined to come to the market with a series of rather unusual handsets. One of these devices has just been spotted, in the form of the Sony Ericsson Kiki, which comes with a futuristic design, namely a few buttons and a transparent display, and now another such ph... |
6 July 2009
06:20 GMT |
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Researchers at the University of California in Riverside (UCR) have managed to successfully design a mechanism that can help induce rapid color modifications to materials being subjected to a magnetic field. The microscopic polymer beads have the ability to shift their orientation according to the direction of the ma... |
17 June 2009
16:31 GMT |
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Nintendo has experienced some huge sales ever since it released its Wii and DS consoles. Both of them have broken records and have been met with huge demand from fans of the Japanese hardware manufacturer. But now things aren't going as they used to, with the Wii losing ground to its arch rivals, the Xbox 360 a... |
5 June 2009
14:41 GMT |
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It's common knowledge that regular LCD and plasma displays can only reproduce about 40 percent of all the colors the human eye can see, and everyone except those actually selling them agree. But, for now, that's about as far as technology goes, in terms of faithful image reproduction. The next step in displ... |
12 March 2009
09:22 GMT |
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The discussions about whether blind people dream in colors when they are asleep, if they dream in black and white, or if they experience color at all has been mainly philosophical at first. Now, the issue has moved into the realm of science, as researchers attempt to find out exactly what mechanisms are at work in th... |
16 December 2008
17:01 GMT |
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Taiwanese manufacturer MSI has decided it was high time for a change on the scene, namely for the introduction of products that aren't part of the company's range of Wind netbooks, or Intel X58-based platforms. This is where the new VR220 YA Edition notebook systems come into place, delivering a bright-colo... |
10 November 2008
10:11 GMT |
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Hewlett-Packard is readying a new color display technology that is allegedly able to deliver 1 billion colors for a life-like viewing experience. The new technology, developed in collaboration with DreamWork Animations, will be deployed across all the company's product lines.The new display technology will play ... |
17 April 2008
03:35 GMT |
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How many of us have actually seen Mercury the way it really looks like? Most of the images available are black and white pictures. I don't really understand why this is, color photography wasn't invented yesterday, but I'm pretty sure there is a good reason for this. Last week, NASA's MESSENGER sp... |
23 January 2008
10:10 GMT |
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This time, it's not only about colors, as the latest version of HTC Touch will also come with some performance improvements. The enhanced smartphone has recently seen its official release in Hong Kong and should soon be available at a wider level.Finally, one handset producer goes to the trouble of bringing impr... |
10 November 2007
01:31 GMT |
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