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Perfect sight: Rosetta cameras track asteroid target
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 18, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- On 14 August, Rosetta conducted a successful trajectory correction manoeuvre using data obtained from the Agency's first-ever optical tracking of an asteroid target, (2867) Steins. Images ...
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Rosetta starts tracking asteroid Steins
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 04, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Heading toward its first target-asteroid, (2867) Steins, ESA's Rosetta spacecraft has started using its cameras to visually track the asteroid and eventually determine its orbit with more ...
Improved sensor technology could someday keep tabs on terrorists by remote control
Feb 12, 2009 |
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Scientists at Rochester Institute of Technology are designing a new kind of optical sensor to fly in unmanned air vehicles, or surveillance drones, tracking suspects on foot or traveling in vehicles identified as a threat.
Luminescence shines new light on proteins
Nov 11, 2008 |
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A chance discovery by a team of scientists using optical probes means that changes in cells in the human body could now be seen in a completely different light.
Nanoscopic probes can track down and attack cancer cells
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 16, 2009 |
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A researcher has developed probes that can help pinpoint the location of tumors and might one day be able to directly attack cancer cells.
ANDE-2 satellite deployed from Space Shuttle Endeavour
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 05, 2009 |
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The Naval Research Laboratory's satellite suite, the Atmospheric Neutral Density Experiment 2 (ANDE-2), was deployed from NASA's Space Shuttle Endeavour on July 30, 2009.
AOptix Technologies and NuCrypt demonstrate physical-layer quantum encryption
Dec 14, 2009 |
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AOptix Technologies, a leading edge developer of ultra-high bandwidth laser communication solutions, and NuCrypt, a provider of technology for ultra-high security over optical communication networks, disclosed today the recent ...
CMS tracking detector successfully installed
Dec 18, 2007 |
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Installation of the world’s largest silicon tracking detector was today successfully completed at CERN. In the early hours of Thursday 13 December the CMS Silicon Strip Tracking Detector began its journey ...
First phase of pan-tropical forest mapping debuting at COP15
Dec 10, 2009 |
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Tropical forest loss accounts for an estimated 17% of global emissions of carbon dioxide. As part of a strategy to reduce these greenhouse gas fluxes to the atmosphere, the UNFCCC's Conference of the Parties 15 in Copenhagen ...
Magnetic field measurements of the human heart at room temperature
Dec 11, 2009 |
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A new optical sensor developed by the American National Institute of Standards and Technology was successfully tested by the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (Germany) in the "magnetically best shielded ...
Discovery of Non-blinking Semiconductor Nanocrystals Advances their Applications
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Substantial advances for applications of nanocrystals in the fields requiring a continuous output of photons and high quantum efficiency may soon be realized due to discovery of non-blinking semiconductor ...
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