It looks like a wrought-iron finial for a curtain rod. It’s actually a demonstration of how electrons can be used as a lens – how an electron microscope make… Read the rest “Science Art: Text-fig. 5. – Model of electron paths, 1946”
I don’t normally go to Business Insider for science news, but they’ve actually got a pretty good rundown of recent research into the problems with taking smart phones to bed… Read the rest “Screen light too bright, can’t get to sleep at night (now, eyes won’t focus right).”
SONG: “Forget.”
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Manipulating memory with light: Scientists erase specific memories in mice“, Science Daily, 9 October 2014,… Read the rest “SONG: “Forget” by grant.”
Science Daily discusses UC Davis researchers who are using light to edit out specific memories:
… Read the rest “We can un-remember for you, wholesale. (With light.)”Optogenetics, pioneered by Karl Diesseroth at Stanford University, is a new technique
Laboratory Equipment wards off bad weather with a new finding… that lasers can be used to divert lightning strikes:
… Read the rest “Anti-lightning lasers zap storms.”Currently, high-intensity lasers, produced with modern technology
At least if we’re flies, it does. Nature has more on the laser beam that puts flies in the mood for love:
… Read the rest “This laser turns us *on*.”Optogenetics — triggering neurons with light — has been successful in mice but
We’re getting closer to having hologram projectors in our pockets, as befits people living in the future. PhysOrg reports on the latest step – a system that converts mobile-device… Read the rest “3D smartphone display, no glasses required.”
Extreme Tech has the details on the contacts that let you see like an eagle:
… Read the rest “Telescope contact lenses are a real thing.”The center of the lens allows light to pass straight through, providing normal vision. The outside edge, however,
PhysOrg knows, thanks to this math professor’s blind-spot-eliminating side-view mirror:
… Read the rest “What’s behind your car?”A side mirror that eliminates the dangerous “blind spot” for drivers has
New Scientist sees through me like glass. In fact, my skin could be better than glass:
… Read the rest “A window of skin”In 2007, Allard Mosk and colleagues at Twente University in Enschede, the Netherlands, demonstrated
BBC brings back our belief in Santa Claus with an update from the Arctic Circle… that reindeer can see ultraviolet light:
… Read the rest “Reindeer can see invisible things. Of course.”“If you’re a bumblebee, you wouldn’t
It shouldn’t be surprising that The Optical Society likes getting a little flashy… but their beetle test subjects take things a little too far:
… Read the rest “Precious beetles.”Costa Rica was once regarded
LiveScience takes a hard look at the stony gaze of the chiton:
… Read the rest “Eyes of stone.”While scientists had discovered the hundreds of eye-like structures on the surface of this armored mollusk, called a chiton,
From Chris Pirillo’s Lockergnome comes news of good cheer to those who can’t tear their gaze away from Left4Dead for more than a few seconds at a time. Researchers have concluded… Read the rest “First-person shooters in shades of gray.”
The great thing about laser weapons, New Scientist says, isn’t just that you can fry your enemy from miles away. You can also shrug your shoulders and say, “No, really, I didn’t… Read the rest “The plausibly deniable death ray.”
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