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Though most people don't complain overmuch, having to do away with everything from water bottles to toothpaste while going on a plane can be frustrating.Fortunately, Cobalt Light Systems has the solution: INSIGHT100.This scanner, looking like an oversized microwave, uses Spatially Offset Raman Spectroscopy (SORS... |
14 February 2012
10:28 GMT |
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A team of experts at the DOE Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) have announced the development of a prototype bullet that can guide itself towards a target located up to a mile (1.6 kilometers) away. The entire design is based on an innovative use of light-emitting diodes (LED) and associated electronics, SNL investi... |
30 January 2012
11:59 GMT |
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The most powerful X-ray laser in the world recently managed to set a new record, when it heated a piece of target material to 2 million degrees. The achievement is reported in the January 25 issue of the top scientific journal Nature.
U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory phys... |
26 January 2012
07:14 GMT |
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Given that Parkinson's disease is largely triggered by the release of a particular protein in the human brain, discovering the condition when it sets on implies being able to prevent this molecule from building up in the brain. This is precisely what a team of researchers recently managed to accomplish.
But, wh... |
17 January 2012
04:00 GMT |
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At this point, the main drawback of cancer treatments is that they cause a wide array of negative side-effects, which are often just as worse as the disease. But now, a biotechnology company from Norway announces that its experts are getting closer to developing a side-effect-free cancer therapy.
Achieving this go... |
7 January 2012
06:56 GMT |
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The internal states of atoms can apparently be manipulated using special types of laser light, experts at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announce in a new study. This ability has never been demonstrated before. The most interesting aspect of this study is that atomic interactions can b... |
9 December 2011
02:47 GMT |
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The European Space Agency (ESA) recently studied the performances of a new type of laser technology in the Spanish Canary Islands. The study involved firing pulses of green light between two of the islands in the archipelago, and was ultimately determined to be a huge success.
The laser technology is being develope... |
30 November 2011
02:52 GMT |
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Experts managing the LISA Pathfinder mission - which is being developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) – announce that the Optical Metrology Subsystem (OMS) instrument successfully completed its cryogenic tests recently.
What this means is that the scientific tool behaved within expected parameters when ... |
15 November 2011
04:31 GMT |
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This YouTube video shows just how easy it is to build a laser microscope in your own home, with which to conduct at least rudimentary scientific observations. The best part is that the instrument can be built for only a few dollars.
Its main component is a standard, presentation laser, of the type used in conferenc... |
10 November 2011
05:45 GMT |
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Spacecraft and astronauts in science-fiction movies have had access to tractor beam technology for decades, but it's only now that a team of researchers at NASA is beginning to actually research the concept in real-life. The group was recently awarded funds to conduct this investigation.
Simply put, a tractor b... |
1 November 2011
04:09 GMT |
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In a study that proved diode lasers can replace their LED-based counterparts in a wide variety of applications, researchers at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) were able to produce a high-quality type of white light using nothing but a four-color laser source.
SNL investig... |
26 October 2011
08:53 GMT |
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A collaboration of researchers at the Yale University announces the development of a new mechanical switch. The device consists of a very small silicon bridge, which can be flipped from one stable configuration through another by light generated from a small laser device. The research group, led by experts Mahmood Ba... |
24 October 2011
04:57 GMT |
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An official press release on the Stanford University website announces that renowned scientist and laser technology pioneer Anthony Siegman died on October 7, 2011, at the age of 79. His work became critically important to this field of research even in the 1960s, when not that much was known about lasers. Some of hi... |
17 October 2011
03:31 GMT |
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In a new groundbreaking investigation, an international team of scientists was able to use special laser light to cool down a mechanical object to its lowest possible energy state. This is the first time such a feat is achieved using lasers.
Experts from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), in Pasade... |
6 October 2011
05:04 GMT |
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A collaboration of experts from the University of Sheffield and the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, in the United Kingdom, proposes the use of lasers for treating forms of dementia such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.
The team believes that a new generation of lasers may be used to... |
27 September 2011
17:01 GMT |
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A group of physicists at the Stanford University announces the development of a new type of light source, which makes use of the power of plasmonics. The ultra-compact, nanoscale device may soon be used to underly the next generation of communications equipment.
Similarly, such advanced light sources could also be... |
24 September 2011
04:34 GMT |
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The American space agency is working hard towards creating an advanced optical communications system, which it plans to use on future deep-space missions. Such a technology will enable the transmission of HD videos and images from anywhere in the solar system.
At this time, conventional communications methods take... |
23 September 2011
04:43 GMT |
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At this point, American soldiers fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq are under constant threat from improvised explosive devices (IED) that rebels plant on commonly-traveled roads. A new detection method produced in the United States proposes the use of lasers to identify the locations of buried IED.
Michigan State U... |
17 September 2011
06:44 GMT |
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An international collaboration of researchers is working on a new method of understanding what happens during chemical reactions. The approach is extremely complex, as it involves tracking the behavior of individual electrons as this happens. Doing so is a monumentally difficult task, considering that the elementary ... |
16 August 2011
05:26 GMT |
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Russian cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) will carry out an extravehicular activity (EVA) today. The goal of the maneuver is to install a series of new instruments on the outer hull of the flying laboratory. The spacewalk will be carried out by cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Alexander Samokutyaev,... |
3 August 2011
05:15 GMT |
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A group of investigators from the Princeton University in the United States says that it recently managed to gather more insights into the nature of electrons. They way that scientists did this was by analyzing how single electrons interact with their environment.Using a complex, laser-based study technique, the expe... |
19 July 2011
07:37 GMT |
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A team of scientists at the Purdue University is currently developing new technologies for use in microfluidic devices, and other similar instruments. The methods they are developing can be used to handle fluids and other tiny particles very efficiently.Researchers are focusing their work on handling DNA, viruses and... |
6 July 2011
03:18 GMT |
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Harvard University scientists announce the creation of a new type of laser, which is made out of living cells injected with a special protein. The cells can remain alive even as they produce the amplified light, the team reports. Generally, laser light is produced when a light source is bounced back and forth between... |
13 June 2011
05:15 GMT |
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A team of experts at the Purdue University announces the development of a new medical imaging technology, that could be used to diagnose cardiovascular conditions, as well as other diseases. The method works rather simply, by exposing molecules of interest to very fast-pulsing laser light, and then measuring the ultr... |
10 June 2011
03:32 GMT |
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A group of engineers from the Stanford University announces the development of an extremely energy-efficient laser, which could potentially be used to revolutionize optical communications systems.This accomplishment could lead to the development of smaller and faster data transmission technologies, which could b... |
17 May 2011
08:05 GMT |
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Under a new agreement signed with representatives of the US federal government, the Boeing Company now needs to start designing and developing an advanced laser that utilizes a rather new light amplification technology.
The contract, estimated to worth about $4.2 million at this point, spans some 16 months. Durin... |
13 May 2011
02:03 GMT |
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US physicists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently demonstrated that it's possible to operate super-stable laser configurations inside cramped and vibrating environments, such as for example a minivan.This achievement is only the first step towards taking atomic clocks – ... |
12 May 2011
08:29 GMT |
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A team of experts with the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), in Greenbelt, Maryland, carried out a new series of investigations and flight tests. During the experiments, experts assessed the performances of a new type of LIDAR technology.LIDAR, short for Light Detection And Ranging, is an optical ranging techn... |
12 May 2011
05:31 GMT |
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Researchers have recently developed a new type of laser, one that can produce high-intensity laser light of almost any color by mimicking the nanoscale structure of colorful feathers found on some birds.This advancement was made possible by the fact that researchers managed to master and replicate the way birds'... |
9 May 2011
05:40 GMT |
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Modern technology is finally catching up with firearms, thanks to an innovative, laser-assisted sensor for gun sights. The new device helps marksmen and snipers achieve tremendously higher precision levels when executing difficult shots. The role of the new sensor is to correct even the smallest barrel disruptions au... |
30 April 2011
06:36 GMT |
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Experts in Japan recently unveiled the first X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL) in the country, and only the second such facility in the entire world. Called SACLA, the laser is the result of a cooperative effort between two major Japanese research centers. Scientists with the natural sciences research institute R... |
11 April 2011
07:34 GMT |
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Scientists with the American space agency are proposing the use of ground-based laser system for cleaning up debris in low-Earth orbit (LEO). The system could be constructed inexpensively, but it will provide satellite operators with more room for their spacecraft. At this point, Earth is surrounded by tens of thousa... |
14 March 2011
06:57 GMT |
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The upcoming LISA mission that will be launched this decade finally got one of its most important components, the laser control system that will connect the three satellites in the program over millions of kilometers of space. The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a project that will see the launch of thre... |
7 March 2011
07:45 GMT |
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A German company is currently using the same type of material that is flying through space aboard a robotic probe to improve the accuracy of laser cutter devices used in the manufacturing of various tools and components. The Braunschweig-based company, called Schütze, is using a type of ultra-light carbon fiber ... |
7 March 2011
07:18 GMT |
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A team of physicists at the University of California in Berkeley (UCB) announces the development of a new method of mapping the planet's magnetic field. Their approach does not rely on the use of expensive satellites or other orbit-based surveillance systems. Analyzing Earth's magnetic field is tremendously... |
15 February 2011
03:56 GMT |
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Technologies originally developed for space have been used for a host of civilian applications for a long time, and it would appear that now it's time for adaptive optics to get a new twist. The study method has recently been fine-tuned for looking inside cells, rather than at the most distant stars.Whenever ast... |
11 February 2011
10:54 GMT |
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Over the past few years, the number of monitoring, imaging and detection technologies based on lasers have increased considerably. Princeton University experts are now proposing a new one, that could help bomb squads detect explosive devices, or climate scientists measure pollutant levels in the air. Engineers at the... |
30 January 2011
07:36 GMT |
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Astronomers operating a large telescope in the Southern Hemisphere are delighted to announce that their instrument is about to become even more efficient at observing the night sky. This will happen when it receives a new constellation of sodium laser beams to help point its “eyes.”
The addition of the... |
29 January 2011
02:26 GMT |
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For years, aeronautics experts have been trying to find alternatives to the standard space launch – a rocket that is powered by burning chemical fuel. An alternative proposition that scientists are seriously considering now calls for the use of lasers or microwaves beam to launch spacecraft.Under the new approa... |
22 January 2011
04:54 GMT |
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In a groundbreaking innovation, physicists at the University of California in Berkeley (UCB) managed to exceed a barrier standing in the way of practical applications for plasmon lasers, and namely temperatures. This class of advanced devices can now operate at room temperatures. These instruments have been proposed ... |
20 December 2010
10:53 GMT |
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Investigators in the United States just published a paper that puts a serious dent in a theory holding that laser operating in the terahertz portion of the electromagnetic spectrum cannot be generated from laser devices functioning at room temperatures. Lasers producing light in these wavelengths have a variety of pr... |
16 December 2010
06:46 GMT |
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American researchers at the University of Michigan announce that it is possible to create something out of nothing when the right conditions are met. In this case, what is needed is an ultra-high-intensity laser beam and a particle accelerator at least two miles in length.What the team argues is that setting in motio... |
9 December 2010
08:35 GMT |
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For three years now, laser liposuction has been practiced in the United States with the approval of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The reason why most people request the procedure is that it eliminates some of the major drawbacks of conventional liposuction.For starters, the established way of removing exces... |
8 December 2010
07:42 GMT |
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A new technology originally developed for the space industry has now made its way to the commercial sector. It allows for objects made of glass to be inscribed with tracking numbers without leaving any marks or cracks on their surface. Keeping an eye on how glass art objects and other items exchange owners and move a... |
24 November 2010
14:01 GMT |
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A new experiment carried out at a NASA lab demonstrated that it's possible to use lasers to listen in on the “music” made by gravitational waves as the pass through the Universe. These structures were predicted to exist in the early 20th century by famed physicist Albert Einstein, who predicted that ... |
24 November 2010
05:42 GMT |
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Physicists believe that they may have finally discovered the first signs of artificially-produced Hawking radiation, in a series of experiments that was carried out in Italy. Experts have in effect created an optical analog for the elusive form of radiation, that was hypothesized by famed physicist Stephen Hawking. F... |
10 November 2010
02:38 GMT |
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An international group of researchers announce the development of a new generation of high-energy, synchrotron X-ray sources, which are so small that they can be used on a scientific lab bench.Tightly-focused X-ray beams are of paramount importance in science today, as they are widely employed in a variety of practic... |
25 October 2010
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A recent test run of the world's most powerful laser proved that the instrument works, and raised hopes that scientists at the US National Ignition Facility (NIF) will achieve nuclear fusion within two years. The firing of the laser was the first-ever complete dry run of the machine, which saw the laser being ai... |
13 October 2010
04:17 GMT |
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Conducting science has become a lot easier since investigators learned to use instruments to aid their senses, and the microscope was undoubtedly one of the greatest inventions ever. Now, experts are seeking to innovate it.The work is being conducted by a team of researchers at the University of Freiburg Department o... |
12 October 2010
09:39 GMT |
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A group of physicists has recently carried out a series of experiments that may provide additional insight into the nature of quantum entanglement.Famed physicist Albert Einstein famously referred to this property of quantum physics as “spooky action at a distance,” due to the instant nature of the connec... |
9 October 2010
06:32 GMT |
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