News tagged with color uniformity

Mice living in sandy hills quickly evolved lighter coloration

In a vivid illustration of natural selection at work, scientists at Harvard University have found that deer mice living in Nebraska's Sand Hills quickly evolved lighter coloration after glaciers deposited ...

Biology / Evolution

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 9

Color test enhances tomato analyzer software

When it comes to fresh vegetables and fruits, color is one of the best indicators of quality. Along with texture, size, and flavor, color plays an important role in the business of horticultural crop production and marketing.

Biology /

created Feb 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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A bronze matryoshka doll: The metal in the metal in the metal

A doll in a doll, and then one more, enveloping them from the outside – this is how Thomas Faessler explains his molecule. He packs one atom in a cage within an atom framework. With their large surfaces ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Astronomers determine color of the Milky Way Galaxy

A team of astronomers in Pitt's Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences announced today the most accurate determination yet of the color of the (aptly named) Milky Way Galaxy: "a very pure white, almost ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (14) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Researchers develop "streamlined" approach to shipboard inspection process

Based on funds from the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) under the Paint Center of Excellence Program, researchers in the Chemistry Division at the Naval Research Laboratory have developed a novel process ...

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Micro-cavity arrays: Lighting the way to the future

It was not too long ago that basic science lectures began with the three forms of matter: gases, liquids and solids—and somewhere along the line plasmas were occasionally added to the list. But to be ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Crystal erbium compound offers superior optical properties, can enhance energy, computer, lighting technologies

Arizona State University researchers have created a new compound crystal material that promises to help produce advances in a range of scientific and technological pursuits.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

New generation of superlattice cameras add more 'color' to night vision

Recent breakthroughs have enabled scientists from the Northwestern University's Center for Quantum Devices to build cameras that can see more than one optical waveband or "color" in the dark. The semiconducting material used ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Mission to mysterious Uranus

Scientists want to send an orbiter and probe to the ice giant planet Uranus, but do the resources exist to support such an ambitious project?

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 22

Apple 'genius' Steve Jobs dies from cancer

Suddenly, the next version of the iPhone doesn't seem so important. It's time to mourn Steve Jobs, the Silicon Valley maestro who always seemed to hit the right note as he transformed Apple Inc. into technology's ...

Technology / Business

created Oct 06, 2011 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (7) | comments 47

MESSENGER results after six months in orbit

(PhysOrg.com) -- MESSENGER scientists will highlight the latest results on Mercury from MESSENGER observations obtained during the first six months (the first Mercury solar day) in orbit. These findings will ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

From myth to reality: Photos prove triple rainbows exist

Few people have ever claimed to see three rainbows arcing through the sky at once. In fact, scientific reports of these phenomena, called tertiary rainbows, were so rare—only five in 250 years—that until now many ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 13 | with audio podcast


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