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Quantum gas microscope offers glimpse of quirky ultracold atoms

Quantum gas microscope offers glimpse of quirky ultracold atoms

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (19) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at Harvard University have created a quantum gas microscope that can be used to observe single atoms at temperatures so low the particles follow the rules of quantum mechanics, ...


Virtual display for cars could reduce accidents

Technology /

created Oct 04, 2004 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Many accidents, especially at night, are caused by motorists having to take their eye off the road as they look down to see the car instruments. Head-up displays would be a solution, were they not so expensive and bulky. OEDIBUS has ...


New research brings 'invisible' into view

New research brings 'invisible' into view (w/ Video)

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A group of researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology has developed a handheld camera that uses microwave signals to non-destructively peek inside materials and structures ...


A Coherant X-ray Speckle Pattern

X-ray holograms expose secret magnetism

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 02, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (39) | comments 0

Collaborative research between scientists in the UK and USA has led to a major breakthrough in the understanding of antiferromagnets, published in this week's Nature. Scientists at the London Centre for Na ...


Nokia Battles Counterfeit With Holograms on Batteries

Electronics /

created Dec 15, 2004 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Original Nokia Battery labeling program latest step in fight against unsafe, counterfeit batteries Nokia today unveiled its latest initiative in the battle against unsafe, low-quality counterfeit batteries. In order for ...


International Space Station (ISS)

Running Marathon in Space

Space & Earth /

created Jan 20, 2006 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur began his week Sunday by running a half-marathon on the station treadmill, supporting friends and colleagues running in the Houston Marathon. As he ran 220 miles above ...


3D display with a wide field of view

3D Scalable Integrated Displays

Electronics /

created Mar 07, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Until now 3D displays have been developed for only one viewer. Christian Moller a research student here at the Department is working on a 3D display where the viewing zone is equal to that of any television ...


Expedition 12 Prepare For Their Second Spacewalk

Space & Earth /

created Jan 27, 2006 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur began last week (Sunday) by running a half-marathon on the station treadmill, supporting friends and colleagues running in the Houston Marathon. As he ran 220 miles above the Earth on ...


Physicists find new nanotech process to create 3D quasicrystals

Physicists find way to create 3D quasicrystals

Nanotechnology /

created Jul 12, 2005 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New York University physicists have applied a ground-breaking nanotechnology method to create three-dimensional quasicrystals, highly ordered structures that, unlike conventional crystals, never repeat themselves.


Contact lenses with circuits, lights a possible platform for superhuman vision

Contact lenses with circuits, lights a possible platform for superhuman vision

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 17, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (104) | comments 15

Movie characters from the Terminator to the Bionic Woman use bionic eyes to zoom in on far-off scenes, have useful facts pop into their field of view, or create virtual crosshairs. Off the screen, virtual ...


The Future Is 3-D Liquid Crystals

The Future Is 3-D Liquid Crystals

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 15, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (15) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dr. Tim Wilkinson from the Department's Photonics Research Group, University of Cambridge, has made an exciting breakthrough, he has combined liquid crystals with vertically grown carbon nanotubes ...


Liquid crystal lasers promise cheaper, high colour resolution laser television

Liquid crystal lasers promise cheaper, high colour resolution laser television

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 20, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (21) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Centre of Molecular Materials for Photonics and Electronics (CMMPE) (part of the Department's Photonics Research Group at the University of Cambridge) are leading the way ...


New Technique Makes Tissues Transparent

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 29, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (40) | comments 0

If humans had see-through skin like a jellyfish, spotting disease like cancer would be a snap: Just look, and see a tumor form or grow.


RFID – where will it go next?

Technology /

created Jan 27, 2006 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (14) | comments 0

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has always been associated with speed and convenience. Quite simply, that's what the technology delivers. But if you associate RFID only with Supply Chain Management, transport or secure ...


Improved Volumetric Displays May Lead to 3D Computer Monitors

Improved Volumetric Displays May Lead to 3D Computer Monitors

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 22, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (24) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- Volumetric 3D displays have been around for nearly a century, but they face several challenges that have prevented their use in widespread applications. Recently, a team of researchers from ...