News tagged with polarisation
Satellite delivery of 3D television
Sep 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As part of its Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems programme, ESA is taking a practical step towards a new viewing experience: 3D television at home, delivered by satellite.
All your movies on a single DVD: study
May 20, 2009 |
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Scientists unveiled new DVD technology on Wednesday that stores data in five dimensions, making it possible to pack more than 2,000 movies onto a single disc.
Dissecting a stellar explosion
Apr 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Integral has captured one of the brightest gamma-ray bursts ever seen. A meticulous analysis of the data has allowed astronomers to investigate the initial phases of this giant stellar explosion, ...
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Textile antenna promises futuristic communications
Sep 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- With a simple press on his shirt insignia, the captain of the Star Ship Enterprise could send and receive messages. Now, thanks to the efforts of a Finnish company, this futuristic communication ...
A glimpse of future GMES Sentinel-1 radar images
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 23, 2009 |
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A newly initiated campaign marks an important step in preparing for how data from the Sentinel-1 European Radar Observatory will be used for applications such as land-cover mapping and crop management. Sentinel-1 ...
A dust factory around a dead star
Feb 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of astronomers, led by Loretta Dunne from the University of Nottingham, have found some very unusual stardust. In a paper to be published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical ...
Quantum technologies move a step closer with the demonstration of an 'entanglement' filter
Jan 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of physicists and engineers has demonstrated an optical device that filters two particles of light (or photons) based on the correlations between their polarisation that are only allowed in the seemingly ...
The Future Is 3-D Liquid Crystals
Jan 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Dr. Tim Wilkinson from the Department's Photonics Research Group, University of Cambridge, has made an exciting breakthrough, he has combined liquid crystals with vertically grown carbon nanotubes ...
Spinning into the future of data storage
Nov 24, 2008 |
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Scientists from Queen Mary, University of London have improved their understanding of the inner workings of our computers and mp3 players, thanks to an exciting new field of research called 'organic spintronics'.
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.
Hurricane Ike tracked by ESA's Envisat
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 11, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Residents along the Gulf Coast are bracing for Hurricane Ike as it travels over the Gulf of Mexico after ripping through Cuba and Haiti. ESA's Envisat satellite is tracking the storm, which ...
Integral locates origin of high-energy emission from Crab Nebula
Aug 29, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Thanks to data from ESA's Integral gamma-ray observatory, scientists have been able to locate where particles in the vicinity of the rotating neutron-star in the Crab Nebula are accelerated ...
Electron microscopy enters the picometer scale
Jul 24, 2008 |
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Jülich scientists have succeeded in precisely measuring atomic spacings down to a few picometres using new methods in ultrahigh-resolution electron microscopy. This makes it possible to find out decisive parameters ...
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