Predicting Landslides With Light
Optical sensors are used all around the world to monitor the condition of difficult-to-access places like the underbellies of bridges, the exterior walls of tunnels, the feet of dams, long pipelines...
View ArticleOptogenetics: Manipulating Memories With Light
Look into the light - unless you want to keep your memories. UC Davis psychologists have used light to erase specific memories in mice and proved a basic hypothesis fpr how different parts of the brain...
View ArticleMagic Magnetic Mirrors Reflect Light In Uncanny Ways
In Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, the 1871 sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the title character finds a mirror that behaves in a surprising and...
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New Tractor Beam Can Repel And Attract
A long-distance optical tractor beam can move tiny particles - one fifth of a millimeter in diameter - a distance of up to 20 centimeters, which is almost 100 times further than previous experiments....
View ArticleResearchers Created A Laser Bullet To See What It Would Look Like - And Here...
Laser-powered weapons have been a staple of science-fiction movies for so long we think we know what they would look like, but we really don't. Researchers at the Laser Centre of the Institute of...
View ArticleMicrowave Electron Guns: A Field-Emission Plug-And-Play Solution
On a quest to design an alternative to the complex approaches currently used to produce electrons within microwave electron guns, a team of researchers have demonstrated a plug-and-play solution...
View ArticleThe Walls Can Talk: New Technique Extracts Audio From Video
A new optical technique by which audio information can be extracted from high-speed video recordings, by using an image-matching process based on vibration from sound waves.The technique is based on...
View ArticleWeighing Trees - Now With Lasers
A terrestrial laser scanning technique that allows the structure of vegetation to be 3D-mapped to the millimeter is more accurate in determining the biomass of trees and carbon stocks in forests than...
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"Air Laser" Created In The Lab
By Charles Q. Choi, Inside Science - A laser could be created with air in a practical way, a new advance that could one day be used to help spot explosives or pollutants from afar, researchers...
View ArticleGiant Billboards In 3-D, No Glasses Needed
Engineers in Austria have given us a blessing and a curse - they have created a giant laser system that sends beams in different directions, which makes them visible from many different angles. The...
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Optically Getting To The Same Side: How To Generating Möbius Strips Of Light
A collaboration of researchers have experimentally produced Möbius strips from the polarization of light, confirming a theoretical prediction that it is possible for light's electromagnetic field to...
View ArticleSkyglow: Big Variations In The Radiance Of The Night
A team has undertaken what they call the most comprehensive examination of skyglow - variations in the radiance of the night sky - ever done and found remarkably large variations in artificial night...
View ArticleGauguin As Experimental Printmaker Analyzed
French artist Paul Gauguin has had quite the resurgence - having a painting sell for nearly $300 million will do that - but the artist noted for his colorful paintings of Tahitian life was also a...
View ArticleEnergy-Space Photography Captures Light Behaving As A Wave And A Particle
Quantum mechanics tells us that light can behave simultaneously as a particle or a wave, but researchers haven't been able to capture both natures of light at the same time; the closest we have come is...
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Wellcome Images Awards 2015 - Science Becomes Art
Since they were pioneered by Robert Hooke 350 years ago, microscopes have been extending our vision. In the 21st century, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and confocal microscopy, which uses a...
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Old Tech May Lead To New AI Computing
Though every month we read about some new advance in artificial intelligence, how much progress is really being made? Neuromorphic computing has created software and electronic hardware that mimic...
View ArticleArtificial Light At Night May Be Making Us Sick
Modern life and inadequate exposure to natural light during the day combined with overexposure to artificial light at night is believed by some to be harmful to the body's natural sleep/wake cycle.One...
View ArticleThere's Nothing Wrong With Your Fundamental Mode, Do Not Adjust Your Picture
Most people don't realize that light can take different shapes. In the fundamental mode, light energy is most intense at the center and gradually fades towards the edge of the beam. Light also has...
View ArticleBy Coupling Photons To Atoms In Glass Fiber, Time Is Stopped
Light is a useful tool for quantum communication, but it has one major disadvantage - it travels at the speed of light and sometimes things need to be kept in place, or at least slowed down.Like with...
View ArticleNew Technique Reduces Halo Effect Caused By Camera Lenses
In a recent study, scientists have presented a new technique that significantly reduces the halo effect that is generated when using multi-focal. contact and intra-ocular, lenses and looking at bright...
View ArticleLiquid Tunable Nanolaser Developed
Scientists have developed the first liquid nanoscale laser and it's tunable in real time, meaning you can quickly and simply produce different colors, a unique and useful feature. The laser technology...
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Lights Changes Sleep Patterns
By Rebecca Boyle, Inside Science -- When light bulbs colonize our homes, humans get much less sleep. It's an intuitive idea, but a new study measures this effect in a real-life situation for the first...
View ArticleWorld-largest Petawatt Laser Completed, Delivering 2,000 Trillion Watts Output
The Institute of Laser Engineering (ILE), Osaka University, has succeeded to reinforce the Petawatt [3] laser "LFEX" to deliver up to 2,000 trillion watts in the duration of one trillionth of one...
View Article'Magic' Sphere For Computing Using Photons
In several years - in perhaps decades, or maybe never - our computers, nanoantennas and other kinds of equipment could operate on the base of photons, rather than electrons. Even now we are practically...
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Laser Razors - What Technology Can And Can't Do
Since their first use in the 1960s, there has been a tremendous expansion of laser technology into an impressively wide range of uses, from fundamental science, health care and security to...
View ArticleLight: Plucking A Particle Out Of A Pulse
Researchers have managed to 'pluck' a single photon, one particle of light, out of a pulse of light. read more
View ArticleThe Secret Life In Soil Revealed
Most of us think nothing of rainfall or where it goes, unless it leads to flooding or landslides. But soil scientists have been studying how water moves across or through soil for decades. Daniel...
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1,000 Times Faster Than Ever Before
Photosynthesis, vision, and many other biological processes depend on light, but it’s hard to capture responses of biomolecules to light because they happen almost instantaneously.read more
View ArticleEvidence Of Link Between Childhood Cancer And Phototherapy For Jaundice Examined
Two new studies can't prove a link between childhood cancer and light therapy for newborn jaundice but the authors say it still raises enough questions that clinicians should exercise caution in...
View ArticleQED: First Direct Evidence Of High Energy Light-by-light Scattering, Where...
Physicists from the ATLAS experiment at CERN have confirmed one of the oldest predictions of quantum electrodynamics (QED), finding the first direct evidence of high energy light-by-light scattering, a...
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