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Quantum Dots Can Tag Individual Molecules With A Fluorescent Glow
Color-Changing Tagging Particles Gang Ruan, Ohio State University A team of engineers at Ohio State University have packed a nanoparticle full of fluorescent blinking quantum dots. When the particle...
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Students' Innovative 3-D Vision System Wins Prize
Tsinghua's 3-D Viewing System Yang Hao This week I had the honor of crowning the winner of National Instruments' student design competition, in which students show off the various inventive ways they...
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Make a High-Res 3-D Image of Just About Anything Anywhere, Using MIT's New Gel
GelSight Capturing the Printed Word in 3-D Imaging the particles of ink making up the word "ink" printed on a piece of paper. Micah Kimo Johnson Two MIT researchers have cracked some fundamental...
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Scientists Create the Smallest Possible Five-Ringed Molecule, Photograph It,...
Olympicene 100,000 times thinner than a human hair. IBM Research–Zurich While most people end up crafting stick figures in boring meetings, Graham Richards of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) was...
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A Programmer Uses Kinect To Make Striking Distorted Images
Puffed Up To generate these images of himself, Robert Hodgin used open-source graphics software with color and depth data taken from the Kinect. Click here to see this picture even larger. Courtesy...
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World's Fastest Camera Photographs Cells in Action to Catch Cancer
World's Fastest Camera This image compares results from the new STEAM camera with a conventional CCD camera and a state-of-the-art CMOS camera. UCLA/PNAS The fastest camera ever made can automatically...
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For the First Time, X-Ray Video Looks Inside Live Working Batteries
Watching Batteries at Work Senior staff scientist Mike Toney and postdoc Johanna Nelson inspect the transmission X-ray microscope at SLAC's Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, a powerful...
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IsoMetrix
Best View Through the Seafloor Courtesy Isometrix Systems that geologists use to see below the Earth's crust on dry land don't work well underwater. The new IsoMetrix marine seismic system, on the...
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8 Stunning Science Visualizations
Dek ArrayNASA's space-based Chandra X-ray telescope recorded this image of the Tycho supernova remnant--an exploded white dwarf star located about 13,000 light years from Earth. Low-energy...
View ArticleScientists Capture All The Neurons Firing Across A Fish's Brain On Video
A month ago, a team of Japanese scientists managed to capture a zebrafish's thoughts on video. Now, you can now watch the entire brain of a larval zebrafish light up as its individual neurons fire....
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This Lensless Camera Is Never Out Of Focus
Compressive Sensing arXiv:1305.7181 [cs.CV]Researchers from Bell Labs in New Jersey have created a camera that operates without any lens, making it lighter, cheaper and immune to blurry, out-of-focus...
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Sugar Syrup Makes Internal Organs Transparent
Mouse Tissues Before and After Translucent Treatment This photo shows tissues before (top row) and after (bottom row) treatment with SeeDB. From left to right, the tissues are: a piece of an adult...
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How Scientists Could Watch Brain Chemicals Through The Skull
Neurons Nick Kaloterakis Researchers have discovered a way to see chemicals at work behind bone. In the future, they hope to develop their technique as a way of watching chemical messages as they blip...
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Bounce Imaging Explorer
Bounce Imaging Explorer Bounce Imaging First responders can toss the baseball-size Explorer into a building or enclosed space for a quick snapshot of any hazards. Sporting six cameras with wide-angle...
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Cassini Spots Mosaic Of Extraterrestrial Seas
Mosaic on Titan NASA-ESA The joint NASA-ESA Cassini space probe, exploring Saturn and her moons, has revealed extraordinary lakes and seas of liquid methane around the north pole of Titan. Scientists...
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While most people end up crafting stick figures in boring meetings, Graham Richards of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) was doodling when he thought making "a molecular structure with three...
View ArticleA Programmer Uses Kinect To Make Striking Distorted Images
While experimenting with new applications for Kinect’s real-time, 3-D imaging capability, San Francisco freelance coder Robert Hodgin discovered a way to make people’s bodies appear puffy and...
View ArticleWorld's Fastest Camera Photographs Cells in Action to Catch Cancer
The fastest camera ever made can automatically count individual cells, processing millions of images continuously and doing it 100 times faster than existing light microscopes. This super-fast imaging...
View ArticleFor the First Time, X-Ray Video Looks Inside Live Working Batteries
Powerful X-ray images are showing for the first time what happens inside a working battery as it discharges power, and it could lead to improvements for a new type of battery that promises better...
View ArticleScientists Capture All The Neurons Firing Across A Fish's Brain On Video
A month ago, a team of Japanese scientists managed to capture a zebrafish's thoughts on video. Now, you can now watch the entire brain of a larval zebrafish light up as its individual neurons fire....
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