New MacBook owners are reporting that Leopard's System Preferences pane includes a small change. While many would have been ignorant to this almost-invisible tweak, some users have discovered that the Energy Saver icon has changed from the old incandescent bulb to an energy-efficient fluorescent bulb.The move wa... |
21 October 2008
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Soon, we could make barbecue during nighttime, as the pigs of the future seem to be fluorescent. The protein named aequorin, from the luminescent jellyfish Aequorea victoria and many other marine organisms, produces a blue glow in the presence of Ca2+ ions, due to a chemical reaction, that's why it has been used... |
11 January 2008
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In nature, only fireflies and marine creatures (like jellyfish, abyssal squids and fish, and others) are fluorescent, but now, after researchers managed to obtain fluorescent pigs, rabbits, butterflies and tank fish, based on genes from these creatures, now we have fluorescent cats, too. This was achieved by a South ... |
13 December 2007
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By creating a brain like a rainbow, scientists were able to study the brain's functions like never before. The "Brainbow", developed at Harvard University, is a genetic engineering that has inserted fluorescence genes from coral, jellyfish and bacteria, making mice brains shine in a curious array of colors betra... |
1 November 2007
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Jellyfish and their relatives, the corals, have been the only animals known to produce fluorescence on their own, by synthesizing fluorescent proteins. Other light-emitting animals, like abyssal fish and squids, rely on fluorescent bacteria. Fluorescent proteins have found a wide array of applications, from scientifi... |
31 October 2007
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After fluorescent pigs, now fluorescent fish have been created. This happened at the National University of Singapore by injecting red, green and orange fluorescence genes coming from a jellyfish into the fish female sex cells. The researchers did it with the aim of using the fish for detecting environmental pollutan... |
27 September 2007
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The fluorescent light bulbs, also called energy saving light bulbs, give out the same amount of light as the ordinary, incandescent applications, but with many advantages in terms of energy consumption and greenhouse gas reductions.However, there is one major problem with these lamps, the fact that they contain merc... |
9 July 2007
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An UCLA team has imagined and mass-produced billions of fluorescent microscale polymeric particles in the shapes of all 26 letters of the alphabet in a liquid solution displaying "exquisite fidelity of the shapes". The "LithoParticles" could have important technological and scientific uses. "We can even choose the fo... |
22 March 2007
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