Biophotonic Solutions Inc. (BSI), the world leader in automated laser pulse compression, has closed a one-million-dollar Series A funding round led by the Michigan Angel Fund.
On the exoplanet Kepler 7b, the weather is highly predictable, an international team of scientists has found: On any given day, the exoplanet, which orbits a star nearly 1,000 light-years from Earth, is heavily overcast on one side, while the other side likely enjoys clear, cloudless weather.
By Jennifer Chu
3 Oct 2013
At the efa trade fair for building systems and electrical engineering in Leipzig Jenoptik will show the latest development in the Lucid LED lighting range for industrial purposes. The new Lucid arena pro is 25 percent brighter than the base type. A dimmable version supports building automation concepts.
Ricoh Americas Corporation today announced the first Ricoh desktop monochrome laser printer and multifunction product (MFP) with embedded WiFi, enabling users to easily print in home offices and small business settings, including doctor offices and construction sites among others, without requiring an optional wireless card.
Brunson Instrument Company today announced the release of their next-gen AlignCam system for Brunson’s current line of alignment telescopes, levels and transits. This new product line is a signature development for Brunson alignment tools utilized every day by service organizations, and maintenance and reliability professionals.
One of the cruelest truths about cancer is that even after you beat the disease, it can still come back to kill you. A tumor growing in the prostate gland, breast, or any other organ can shed cancerous cells into the blood. These cancerous seeds travel the body and can take root nearly anywhere, growing into a new cancer threat even after the initial cancer is treated.
Proton therapy, an external beam radiotherapy in which protons deliver precise radiation doses to a tumor and spare healthy organs and tissues, is cost-effective in treating medulloblastomas, fast-growing brain tumors that mainly affect children, when compared to standard photon radiation therapy, according to research presented today at the American Society for Radiation Oncology’s (ASTRO’s) 55th Annual Meeting.
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected propylene, a chemical used to make food-storage containers, car bumpers and other consumer products, on Saturn's moon Titan.
As a modern culture, we crave artificial white lights -- the brighter the better, and ideally using less energy than ever before. To meet the ever-escalating demand for more lighting in more places and to improve the bulbs used in sports stadiums, car headlights and street lamps, scientists are scrambling to create better light-emitting diodes (LEDs) -- solid state lighting devices that are more energy efficient than conventional incandescent or fluorescent light sources.
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global Smart Lighting Market (2013 - 2018) By Component (Sensors, Controllers, Chipsets, Others); Lighting Type (LED, FL, CFL, HID); Connectivity (Wired, Wireless); Application (Commercial, Industrial, Public, Government, Residential) & Geography" report to their offering.
Zygo Corporation, a worldwide supplier of optical metrology instruments and high precision optical systems, today announced that its Optical Systems Division has been awarded an order valued in excess of $4 million from a major medical device manufacturer to produce high performance lens assemblies. Manufacturing will take place at Zygo's Electro-Optics assembly location in Tucson, Arizona.
Three months after the flight of the solar observatory Sunrise – carried aloft by a NASA scientific balloon in early June 2013 -- scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany have presented unique insights into a layer on the sun called the chromosphere.
Tantalized by images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based data, scientists thought the giant asteroid Vesta deserved a closer look. They got a chance to do that in 2011 and 2012, when NASA's Dawn spacecraft orbited the giant asteroid, and they were able to check earlier conclusions.
At M&M 2013, Indianapolis, ZEISS launched the next generation EVO series for material and life science applications.
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Daylight Solutions, Inc. announced today the company has completed all deliveries of their Solaris™ Quantum Cascade Laser (QCL)-based systems to the U.S. Army through its partner, Northrop Grumman Corporation’s Electronic Systems sector, in support of the U.S. Army’s CIRCM program.