News tagged with third dimension

Researchers move graphene electronics into 3D

In a paper published this week in Science, a Manchester team lead by Nobel laureates Professor Andre Geim and Professor Konstantin Novoselov has literally opened a third dimension in graphene research. Their ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (19) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

New insights into how the brain reconstructs the third dimension

A new visual illusion has shed light on a long-standing mystery about how the brain works out the 3-D shapes of objects.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A 3-D way to release magnetic energy... fast!

Experiments discover a 3-D process by which magnetic reconnection can release energyfaster than expected by classical theories.

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

TV broadcasting in 3-D

The market for consumer 3D television sets is expanding at the enormous pace of a 75% annual growth rate, following the trend for popular movies shot in 3D. With this rapidly growing market, comes the need for standardization ...

Technology / Telecom

created May 27, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Miracle material: Graphene

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the 19th century novel, Flatland, by Edward A. Abbott, residents of that fictional country exist in only two dimensions. Women are born as line segments, while men come in a range of geometric ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 19, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Holometer experiment to test if the universe is a hologram

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many ideas in theoretical physics involve extra dimensions, but the possibility that the universe has only two dimensions could also have surprising implications. The idea is that space on ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 28, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (53) | comments 130 | with audio podcast weblog

CeBIT 2010: Live 3-D-TV

This is the year in which 3D cinema and 3D TV will make the breakthrough. At CeBIT in Hannover, Fraunhofer researchers are presenting technologies and standards that are hastening the progress.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Feb 26, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Going Beyond Moore's Law by Using the Third Dimension

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have demonstrated a new microwire fabrication technique in which microwires self-assemble themselves in a three-dimensional template made of nematic liquid crystals. Amidst concerns ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 18, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (27) | comments 7 | with audio podcast feature

A third dimension for mobile phones

(PhysOrg.com) -- Three-dimensional viewing has not yet made it in a big way onto our television and cinema screens. According to European researchers, the story of 3-D TV is set to be quite different with mobile devices, ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Super-resolution microscopy takes on a third dimension

The shapes of some of the tiniest cellular structures are coming into sharper focus at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Farm Research Campus, where scientists have developed a new imaging technology that produces ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0