Dentists may soon have a new tool at their disposal, that could be used to make trips to their offices easier and less painful. The new device is based heavily on space-age technologies. The instrument is basically a tiny, high-resolution X-ray camera, which is capable of imaging what goes on inside teeth with a mini... |
12 October 2010
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Over the course of our evolution, the human brain has become very efficient at telling individuals apart from each other. We rely on facial proportions, hair styles, eyebrow length and other such factors for identifying each of the people we regularly come in contact with as individuals, but our advanced abilities ar... |
26 February 2010
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Scientists at the University of California in Riverside (UCR) are about to engage in a long-term, five-year effort, to begin in 2010, that will aim to drastically reshape the way in which we communicate and navigate in homes, offices, airports and especially in places where radio frequency communication is prohibited... |
13 August 2009
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The physics world is currently engaged in a large-scale debate, which seeks to establish whether the tiny lenses a research group from the Pohang University of Science and Technology, in South Korea, created are indeed able to break the diffraction limit. The theory holds that no type of lens can see details that are... |
24 July 2009
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Night vision devices primarily work either on image enhancement or thermal imaging techniques. Image enhancement night vision goggles rely on gathering small amounts of light given off by the surrounding medium, such as infrared light for example, which is invisible to the human eyes, then amplifying it in the visibl... |
21 May 2008
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On April 25, a red dwarf star in the EV Lacertae constellation, known as Lacerta, ejected a massive solar flare equivalent to about a thousand solar flares emitted by the Sun. It was the brightest burst of light created by a normal star ever seen in the universe. The emission was first detected by NASA's Wind sa... |
20 May 2008
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Black lights may occasionally be disguised into traditional lighting sources such as incandescent light bulbs or fluorescent tubes, but they function and have different roles than those of ordinary lighting sources. Black lights are mostly used in order to make certain substances or objects 'glow in the dark... |
16 April 2008
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