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Adjustable-Focus Endoscope Could Facilitate More Effective, Less Painful Imaging of Internal Tissues

Colonoscopy is a safe and effective medical procedure that's proven to saves lives. Used for routine cancer screening, it can help identify colon tumors in their early stages.

30 Jul 2015

Structures Incorporated Within Individual Cells Induced to Produce Laser Light

Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators have induced structures incorporated within individual cells to produce laser light.

30 Jul 2015

New Dual Color Hazardous Location LED Signal Light from Larson Electronics

Larson Electronics announces the release of a new dual colored hazardous location LED signal light with a 110dBA audible horn.

30 Jul 2015

Lung Cancer Fluorescent Imaging During Surgery Using Targeted Molecular Agents May Become a Reality

More than 80,000 people undergo resection of a pulmonary tumor each year, and currently the only method to determine if the tumor is malignant is histologic analysis.

30 Jul 2015

Sole-Source LEDs Better than Supplemental Lighting for Bedding Plant Seedling Production

In northern latitudes, producers of bedding plants depend on supplemental lighting during the late winter and early spring growing seasons. Unfortunately, these peak times for young plant production are also the darkest.

30 Jul 2015

Musco LED Light-Structure Green System to be Installed at Seminole County's New Sports Complex

This fall, Seminole County will install Musco’s Light-Structure Green™ system with an LED light source at its new sports complex. The complex is set to open in the spring of 2016.

30 Jul 2015

RED Epic Dragon Camera on Space Station Delivers Images with Six Times More Detail

In October 2014 NASA delivered high-definition, 3-D footage of astronauts living and working on the International Space Station to the Internet, posting video of astronauts exploring water tension in microgravity.

30 Jul 2015

Government Initiatives to Drive Growth of India LED Lighting Market

The report titled "India LED Lighting Market Outlook to 2019 – Next Wave of Growth Driven by Government Initiatives" provides a comprehensive analysis of the various aspects such as market size of India LED lighting industry by revenue generated and production volume and market segmentation by lamps, bulbs, luminiaries, organized and unorganized and by utility.

30 Jul 2015

Lighting Science Group to Partner in Pakistan's First $200 Million Smart City Plan

Lighting Science Group (LSG), a global leader in superior lighting solutions that are environmentally-responsible and energy-efficient, has been chosen as a founding partner in the $200 million plan that will make Pakistan's largest urban area the country’s first “Smart City".

30 Jul 2015

Prior Scientific Introduces Lumen 200S Metal Halide Illumination System with Shutter Control

Prior Scientific, a leading supplier of illumination equipment for fluorescence microscopy, announces the new Lumen 200S metal halide illumination system with shutter control.

30 Jul 2015

New Whitepaper Discusses Echelle and ORCA ICP-OES Optical Technologies

The issue of which ICP-OES optical technology delivers the superior performance -- Echelle or ORCA.

29 Jul 2015

TE Connectivity’s Coolbit Optical Engines Win UBM Canon ACE Awards

TE Connectivity (TE), a world leader in connectivity, today announced its Coolbit optical engines have been named a winner in the EE Times and EDN 2015 UBM Canon ACE (Annual Creativity in Electronics) Awards in the Passives, Interconnects and Electromechanical category.

29 Jul 2015

Photron Launches FASTCAM Mini AX50 High-Speed Camera with Superior Light Sensitivity

Photron, Inc., a global leader and manufacturer of high-speed cameras and image analysis software, introduces the FASTCAM Mini AX50.

From Photron USA, Inc. 29 Jul 2015

$McPherson Introduces SXR Spectrometer with New Gold Coated Diffraction Grating$

McPherson Introduces SXR Spectrometer with New Gold Coated Diffraction Grating

McPherson's SXR spectrometer, Model 251MX, is now available with improved efficiency over a wider range. A new diffraction grating is available! The new Gold coated diffraction grating is ideal for work from 20 to 80 nanometers.

29 Jul 2015

Wide-Field-Of-View Imager Based on Lobster-Eye Optics Detects Soft X-Ray Emissions

Solar winds are known for powering dangerous space weather events near Earth, which, in turn, endangers space assets. So a large interdisciplinary group of researchers, led by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) set out to create a wide-field-of-view soft X-ray imager capable of detecting the soft X-ray emissions produced whenever the solar wind encounters neutral gas.

29 Jul 2015