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Caravaggio used photographic techniques: researcher
Mar 10, 2009 |
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Italian Renaissance painter Caravaggio used revolutionary optical instruments to "photograph" his models more than 200 years before the invention of the camera, according to a researcher in Florence.
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Studying the female form: Math could lead to sexier lingerie, safer labcoats
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 12, 2009 |
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Researchers in Japan have turned to mathematics to build a computerized 3D model of the female trunk that could help lingerie and other clothes designers make more sensuous, comfortable, and better fitting product ranges.
Male elephants get 'photo IDs' from scientists
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Aug 15, 2007 |
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Asian elephants don’t carry photo identification, so scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society and India’s Nature Conservation Foundation are providing the service free of charge by creating a photographic archive ...
New method could lead to narrower chip patterns
Apr 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at MIT have found a novel method for etching extremely narrow lines on a microchip, using a material that can be switched from transparent to opaque, and vice versa, just by exposing it to certain ...
Study examines treatment and outcomes for nasal fractures
Sep 21, 2009 |
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Both minimally invasive and traditional open approaches can successfully repair nasal fractures, provided the procedure is matched to the individual fracture, according to a report in the September/October issue of Archives of ...
Huge telescope opens in Spain's Canary Islands
Jul 24, 2009 |
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(AP) -- One of the world's most powerful telescopes opened its shutters for the first time Friday to begin exploring faint light from distant parts of the universe. The Gran Telescopio Canarias, a euro130 ...
Physicists Produce Quantum-Entangled Images
Jun 25, 2008 |
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Using a convenient and flexible method for creating twin light beams, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland (UM) have produced “quantum images,” ...
New invention to make parabolic trough solar collector systems more energy efficient
May 15, 2007 |
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A mirror alignment measurement device, invented by Rich Diver, a researcher at Sandia National Laboratories, may soon make one of the most popular solar collector systems, parabolic troughs, more affordable ...
Fastest waves ever photographed
Oct 27, 2006 |
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Plasma physicists at the Universities of Texas and Michigan have photographed speedy plasma waves, known as Langmuir waves, for the first time using a specially designed holographic-strobe camera.
Using new technique, scientists find 11 times more aftershocks for 2004 quake
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a technique normally used for detecting weak tremor, scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology discovered that the 2004 magnitude 6 earthquake along the Parkfield section of the San Andreas ...
Crime scene measurements can be taken from a single image
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 01, 2009 |
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Two researchers from the University of Salamanca have developed a procedure to enable forensic police to extract metric data from crime scenes using just a single photograph. Their proposal, published this ...
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