Posts Tagged ‘infrared’
Sensor for asteroid camera passes critical test
U. ROCHESTER (US) — Scientists are testing a new sensor designed to be the eyes of a future asteroid-tracking mission. Continue…
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 11:59 - 3 Comments
Science & Technology - Apr 2, 2013 14:12 - 0 Comments
Moon minerals survive rock-melting blasts
BROWN (US) — Despite the unimaginable energy of large impacts on the Moon, they may not wipe the mineralogical slate clean, according to new research. (more…)
Science & Technology - Feb 18, 2011 11:51 - 0 Comments
Anti-lasers: Latest zap! technology
YALE (US) — Scientists have invented the world’s first anti-laser, in which incoming beams of light interfere with one another in such a way as to perfectly cancel each other out. (more…)
Science & Technology - Nov 5, 2010 11:23 - 1 Comment
Astronomers hit galactic pay dirt
U. NOTTINGHAM (UK) — The first images from the sky survey project Herschel-ATLAS have revealed a new way to locate cosmic zoom lens—a phenomenon that lets astronomers peer at far-away galaxies. (more…)
Science & Technology - Aug 4, 2010 10:23 - 0 Comments
NASA telescope spots buckyballs in space
CORNELL (US)—Researchers using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope’s Infrared Spectrograph have detected fullerenes, or buckyballs—carbon structures long thought to be likely features of the interstellar medium, but never before observed. (more…)
Science & Technology - May 7, 2010 14:49 - 0 Comments
Is night vision the next mobile must-have?
U. FLORIDA (US)—Engineers have developed a night vision imaging device that’s paper-thin, lightweight, and inexpensive to produce, making it a possible add-on to cell phone cameras—and even eyeglasses—once it is enlarged. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Mar 1, 2010 19:09 - 2 Comments
Harmless mole or deadly melanoma?
JOHNS HOPKINS (US)—A new scanning system could take most of the guesswork out of screening a suspect skin growth. (more…)
Science & Technology - Nov 24, 2009 17:29 - 4 Comments
Massive cocoons cradled earliest black holes
COLORADO (US)—The first large black holes in the universe likely formed and grew deep inside gigantic, starlike cocoons that smothered their powerful x-ray radiation and prevented surrounding gases from being blown away. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Nov 20, 2009 12:34 - 1 Comment
Infrared scanners scope out early cancer
U. FLORIDA (US)—Traditional endoscopes provide a peek inside patients’ bodies. Now, an engineering researcher is designing ones capable of “seeing” beneath the surface of tissues. (more…)
Science & Technology - Oct 21, 2009 17:05 - 3 Comments
Playing hide and seek with exoplanets
U. COLORADO (US)—A precise “laser ruler” is being developed to look for Earth-like planets around other stars. The device will measure tiny changes in infrared light caused by the gravitational wobble of small, cool stars as they are tugged back and forth by their rocky planets. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Sep 17, 2009 19:58 - 5 Comments
Photo reveals Africa’s cryptic cat
YALE (US)—An anthropologist has captured photographic images of a rare, cougar-like cat ranging at night in an endangered Ugandan forest. (more…)
Science & Technology - May 6, 2009 10:32 - 0 Comments
Searching space for clues to life on Earth
U. MICHIGAN (US)—In a mission to learn more about how life formed on Earth—and how organic molecules form in space—astronomers will use the Herschel Space Observatory, scheduled to launch May 6, to study the chemistry of warm gas and dust clouds around young stars. (more…)
Science & Technology - Mar 5, 2009 12:45 - 0 Comments
Energy-efficient way to build a better laser
PRINCETON (US)—Scientists have discovered a more efficient way to produce a high-performing laser. The finding could lead to lasers that operate at higher temperatures than existing devices, making them ideally suited for applications in air quality monitoring, medical diagnostics, and even homeland security.
