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All in sight: Scientists test infrared system for the protection of whales

All in sight: Scientists test infrared system for the protection of whales

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new measurement system for the detection of whales is used for the first time on board of the research vessel Polarstern. Whales are usually difficult to spot. On the one hand, they spend the greater part ...





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How thermal-imaging cameras can spot flu fevers (AP)

How thermal-imaging cameras can spot flu fevers

Technology / Other

created May 01, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 4

(AP) -- To screen passengers for swine flu and other contagious diseases, some airports use thermal imaging cameras to see whether travelers have fevers, without having to stick thermometers in their mouths. ...


Adapting space-industry technology to treat breast cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at Rush University Medical Center and Argonne National Laboratory are collaborating on a study to determine if an imaging technique used by NASA to inspect the space shuttle can be used to predict tissue damage ...


Infrared technology aids motor-impaired people

Infrared technology aids motor-impaired people

Medicine & Health / Other

created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A University of Toronto professor has found a way for people with severe motor impairments to communicate with the use of an infrared camera.


Concurrent imaging of metabolic and electric signals in the heart

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cardiac rhythm disorders can result from disturbances in cardiac metabolism. These metabolic changes are tightly linked with specific cardiac electrophysiology (CEP) abnormalities, such as depressed excitability, impaired ...


Highlight: California, Nevada Lakes Warming Rapidly

Highlight: California, Nevada Lakes Warming Rapidly

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created 9 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new JPL study examines the impact recent variability in climate is having on the surface temperatures of large lakes in California and Nevada.


Cassini Sends Back Images of Enceladus as Winter Nears

Cassini Sends Back Images of Enceladus as Winter Nears

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft has sailed seamlessly through the Nov. 21 flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus and started transmitting uncalibrated temperature data and images of the rippling terrain. ...


Seals like it hot

Seals like it hot

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using innovative thermal imaging techniques and CCTV recording, a St Andrews academic has shed new light on previously unseen aspects of the life of seals.


Odyssey

Mars Odyssey Shifting Orbit for Extended Mission

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 10, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The longest-serving of six spacecraft now studying Mars is up to new tricks for a third two-year extension of its mission to examine the most Earthlike of known foreign planets.


NASA's Opportunity rover captured this view of "Burns Cliff" after driving right to the base of this southeastern portion of the

Opportunity Driving Again

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created Jan 27, 2006 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Opportunity has resumed driving after engineers determined an acceptable new way to stow the robotic arm during drives. With the arm in the newly approved stow configuration, the rover drove 2.4 meters (7.9 ...


Twinkling Nanostars Improve Optical Imaging of Tumors

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Sep 25, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Purdue University have created magnetically responsive gold nanostars that may offer a new approach to biomedical imaging. The nanostars gyrate when exposed to a rotating magnetic field and ...



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