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Polarization imaging: Seeing through the fog of war

Funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the development of a new circular polarization filter by a collaborative team of scientists at the Colorado School of Mines and ITN Energy Systems has the potential to ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

LED lights point shoppers in the right direction

Looking for an item in a large department store or mall can be like searching for a needle in a haystack, but that could change thanks to a hybrid location-identification system that uses radio frequency transmitters and ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Vision improves modestly in patients after human embryonic stem cells transplants

(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers at UCLA's Jules Stein Eye Institute and colleagues who successfully transplanted specialized retinal cells derived from human embryonic stem cells into the eyes of two legally ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Study uncovers clues to what makes anesthetics work

Physicians use inhalation anesthetics in a way that is incredibly safe for patients, but very little is known about the intricacies of how these drugs actually work in children and adults. Now, researchers have uncovered ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

When your criminal past isn't yours

(AP) -- A clerical error landed Kathleen Casey on the streets.

Technology / Other

created Dec 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 4

A 'wild card' in your genes

The human genome and the endowments of genes in other animals and plants are like a deck of poker cards containing a "wild card" that in a genetic sense introduces an element of variety and surprise that has ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Terminator-style info-vision takes step towards reality

The streaming of real-time information across your field of vision is a step closer to reality with the development of a prototype contact lens that could potentially provide the wearer with hands-free information ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Scientists solve mystery of the eye

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have a good overall understanding of human vision: when light enters our eyes, it is focused by the lens and strikes the retina in the back of the eye. The light causes some of ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (47) | comments 14 | with audio podcast feature

High-quality white light produced by four-color laser source

(PhysOrg.com) -- The human eye is as comfortable with white light generated by diode lasers as with that produced by increasingly popular light-emitting diodes (LEDs), according to tests conceived at Sandia ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 19 | with audio podcast

Researchers develop optimal algorithm for determining focus error in eyes and cameras

University of Texas at Austin researchers have discovered how to extract and use information in an individual image to determine how far objects are from the focus distance, a feat only accomplished by human and animal visual ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers probe genetic link to blindness

University of Leeds researchers have used next-generation DNA sequencing techniques to discover what causes a rare form of inherited eye disorders, including cataracts and glaucoma, in young children.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Sep 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers identify gene that leads to myopia (nearsightedness)

A Ben-Gurion University of the Negev research group led by Prof. Ohad Birk has identified a gene whose defect specifically causes myopia or nearsightedness.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Database of water, wastewater pipeline infrastructure systems to be launched Sept. 1

Unfortunately, more than two million miles of the nation's infrastructure of water and wastewater pipelines are underground and nearing the end of their useful life. For state and local water utilities, making ...

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Webb telescope technologies already helping human eyes

Even while construction of the James Webb Space Telescope is underway on the most advanced infrared vision of any space observatory, its technologies are already proving useful to human eye health here on ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

New invisibility cloak hides objects from human view

For the first time, scientists have devised an invisibility cloak material that hides objects from detection using light that is visible to humans. The new device is a leap forward in cloaking materials, according to a report ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 27, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (15) | comments 11 | with audio podcast