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New device finds early signs of eye disease in preemies
Sep 21, 2009 |
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Tell-tale signs of a condition that can blind premature babies are being seen for the first time using a new handheld device in a study at Duke University Medical Center.
3-D snapshots of eyes reveal details of age-related blindness
Mar 19, 2009 |
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To get a better look at the abnormalities that cause age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of vision loss in Americans and Europeans over 50, the research groups of James Fujimoto at the Massachusetts ...
Shining light on diabetes-related blindness
Mar 11, 2009 |
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A group of scientists in California is trying to develop a cheaper, less invasive way to spot the early stages of retinal damage from diabetic retinopathy, the leading cause of blindness in American adults, before it leads ...
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Optical Physicist Publishes on Optical Coherence and Polarization
Jan 28, 2008 |
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Emil Wolf, Wilson Professor of Optical Physics and Professor of Optics at the University of Rochester, and co-author of one of the most cited science books of the 20th century, Principles of Optics, has released a new book ...
Michigan scientists working on super-fast, secure computing
Sep 09, 2009 |
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Air Force Office of Scientific Research(AFOSR)-supported physicists at the University of Michigan are developing innovative components for quantum, or super-fast, computers that will improve security for data ...
Physicist proposes to use femtosecond, chirped laser pulse trains to reduce decoherence
Nov 10, 2008 |
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In a recent publication in the high impact journal Optics Letters, Svetlana Malinovskaya, Associate Professor of Physics at Stevens Institute of Technology, proposes to use femtosecond, chirped laser pulse trains to reduce ...
Physicists develop laser with bandwith spanning 2 telecom windows
May 19, 2008 |
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A team of physicists in the Institute for Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers (IUSL) of the Physics Department at The City College of New York (CCNY) have developed new near-infrared broadband laser materials with tunability ...
Physicists Store Images in Vapor
Jun 23, 2008 |
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Books are written on solid pieces of paper for an obvious reason: the atoms in a solid don’t move around much, keeping the words and pictures in place for centuries. Trying to store letters and images in a ...
MIT team takes high-res, 3-D images of eye
Apr 30, 2007 |
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In work that could improve diagnoses of many eye diseases, MIT researchers have developed a new type of laser for taking high-resolution, 3-D images of the retina, the part of the eye that converts light to ...
Coldest lab to simulate hot physics of early universe
Feb 15, 2007 |
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Cheng Chin will make a vacuum chamber in his laboratory the coldest place in Chicago in order to simulate the impossibly hot conditions that followed the big bang during the earliest moments of the universe.
Researchers Set New Distance Record for Quantum Key Distribution
Jul 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Quantum key distribution (QKD) could be the next commercial success of quantum physics, and a recent study has taken the field a step closer to this reality. Researchers from the University ...
Liquid Crystals Slow Light Pulses to a Snail's Pace
Jun 10, 2008 |
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In a vacuum, the speed of a light pulse is always a constant at 186,000 miles (300,000 km) per second. But by changing the medium through which light travels, physicists can slow down light pulses, and possibly ...
Colon cancer screening technique shows continued promise in new study
Jun 09, 2009 |
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Recent clinical trials show that a new colon cancer screening technique created by Northwestern University researchers has a high enough sensitivity that it could potentially be as or more successful than a colonoscopy in ...
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