News tagged with green light

Researchers model potential of toxic algae photoreceptors

Blue-green algae is causing havoc in Midwestern lakes saturated with agricultural run-off, but researchers in a northwest Ohio lab are using supercomputers to study a closely related strain of the toxic cyanobacteria ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Blue light irradiation promotes growth, increases antioxidants in lettuce seedlings

The quality of agricultural seedlings is important to crop growth and yield after transplantation. Good quality seedlings exhibit characteristics such as thick stems, thick leaves, dark green leaves, and large white roots. ...

Biology / Other

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Nanoscale nonlinear light source created

Not long after the development of the first laser in 1960 scientists discovered that shining a beam through certain crystals produced light of a different color; more specifically, it produced light of exactly ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

What causes traffic gridlock?

Everyday life enters a different phase on the Tuesday after Labor Day, the unofficial start of autumn in the United States. As students and employees return from vacation, and vehicles fully flood roadways ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 07, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Study demonstrates potential of new gene vector to broaden treatment of eye diseases

Inspired by earlier successes using gene therapy to correct an inherited type of blindness, investigators from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, are poised to extend their ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Single Green Fluorescent Protein-expressing cell is basis of living laser device

(PhysOrg.com) -- It sounds like something out of a comic book or a science fiction movie – a living laser – but that is exactly what two investigators at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jun 12, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Zeroing in on the elusive green LED

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new method for manufacturing green-colored LEDs with greatly enhanced light output.

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 18 | with audio podcast

Neutron analysis yields insight into bacteria for solar energy

Structural studies of some of nature's most efficient light-harvesting systems are lighting the way for new generations of biologically inspired solar cell devices.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Green LED is bright enough for large projector

Osram Opto Semiconductors has developed an extremely bright, green light-emitting diode (LED) that makes LED projectors in office environments possible. Projectors in conference rooms have to be very bright ...

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Shedding light on a protein, and a future

While on a research co-op in London, Northeastern University senior Brendon Kellner investigated the inner workings of certain proteins through state-of-the-art ultrafast lasers. These lasers generate light ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 17, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Jellyfish protein could be used to power nanodevices

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in Sweden have been liquidizing thousands of specimens of a common North American jellyfish to extract a protein that could be used in microscopic fuel cells.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 07, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Researchers use nanobiotechnology-manipulated light particles to accelerate algae growth

Scientists and engineers seek to meet three goals in the production of biofuels from non-edible sources such as microalgae: efficiency, economical production and ecological sustainability. Syracuse University's Radhakrishna ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Aug 24, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers measure high infrared power levels from some green lasers

Green laser pointers have become a popular consumer item, delivering light that's brighter to the eye than red lasers, but stories have circulated on the Web about the potential hazards of inexpensive models. ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 04, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Light switches for nerve cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- It sounds like a neurobiologist’s dream: a light-switch that allows nerve cells to be switched on and off at will. Three scientists have found just such a light switch and are now being honoured ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 06, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

UMass Amherst Researchers Develop New Microscope So Powerful It Sees Individual Molecules

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are finding that the ability to see very small things -- objects 20,000 times thinner than a human hair -- can help answer big biological questions. That’s why Jennifer Ross, a ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 06, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0