News tagged with color centers


Trading carats for nanometers - and defective diamonds for crystal clear microscopy

Trading carats for nanometers - and defective diamonds for crystal clear microscopy

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Large, perfect diamonds are precious to almost all of us but to some scientists, it is the defects that really matter. This is because defects can form nanoscopic color centers, which play ...





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Over the back fence: gardeners get advice from neighbors, friends

Other Sciences / Other

created May 07, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Where do gardeners turn when they need information about annuals, perennials, shrubs and trees? Staff at University of Minnesota Extension have published results of a survey that concludes that the majority of backyard gardeners ...


How to get reliable swine flu information online

Technology / Internet

created May 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

With blogs, Facebook, Twitter and lots of other sources, information about swine flu is traveling at light speed.


Seeing color in 'blindsight'

Biology /

created Oct 27, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

By manipulating the brain noninvasively in a new way with magnetic stimulation, researchers have shown that they can restore some experience of color where before there was no visual awareness whatsoever. They report their ...


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Dell Launches World's Fastest Office Color Laser Printer

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dell today announced three new commercial workgroup printers to help businesses of all sizes increase productivity and lower their total cost of printing.


Epson's new 4K panel for 3LCD projectors

Epson's new 4K panel for 3LCD projectors

Technology / Hi Tech

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Seiko Epson Corporation has announced the world's first 4K panel for 3LCD (liquid crystal display) projectors. The panel will enable the projectors to produce a bright image of 4096 x 2160 ...


Skin color gives clues to health

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Researchers from the universities of Bristol and St. Andrews in the UK have found that the color of a person's skin affects how healthy and therefore attractive they appear, and have found that diet may be crucial to achieving ...


UGA research explores little-known chapter in college desegregation

Other Sciences / Other

created Jan 09, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Many of the battles to desegregate Southern colleges and universities were fought in public, but efforts to desegregate the standardized testing that is often a prerequisite to admission have, until now, received little attention. ...


'Color My Pyramid' nutrition education program battles obesity in DC schools

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 07, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An online game might be the secret weapon for winning the war against childhood obesity. Researchers at George Mason University have designed and tested a nutrition education program called "Color My Pyramid" to teach students ...


CDC: Swine flu has sickened 22 million in 6 months

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Government health officials say swine flu has sickened about 22 million Americans since April.


Qualcomm's next e-book to use a mirasol display

Qualcomm's next e-book to use a mirasol display

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Qualcomm subsidiary Mirasol is developing a new e-book reader with a color display that uses ambient light. The reader will be capable of displaying video smoothly, but the new features will ...



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