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Thorlabs and BMC Joined Forces to Bring Deformable Mirrors to Photonics Research

News - 30 Sep 2007

Thorlabs Inc. a Newton, N.J.-based developer of laser and fiber optic systems, and Boston Micromachines Corp. (BMC) of Watertown, Mass., have announced a partnership to enable BMC, a provider of...
The Trilobite Data Show a Different Process at Work

News - 27 Sep 2007

We've never seen anything quite like it," says solar physicist Lika Guhathakurta from NASA headquarters. Last week she sat in an audience of nearly two hundred colleagues at the "Living with a...
A Warm South Pole on Neptune

News - 25 Sep 2007

An international team of astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope has discovered that the south pole of Neptune is much hotter than the rest of the planet. This is consistent with the fact...
Budget Cut for the World's Largest Radio Telescope

News - 24 Sep 2007

More than 70 astronomers gathered on Capitol Hill this week, not to talk about the demise of a major national research facility, but to plan for its scientific future. With optimism, the group was...
Optical and Radio Astronomy from Moon's Surface using a Prototype Lunar Lander Vehicle

News - 24 Sep 2007

Space systems company Spacedev has been awarded a contract to develop a prototype lunar lander vehicle for the International Lunar Observatory Association (ILOA). The ILOA is a private spacecraft...
Mirrors have Special Powers in the Hands of an Astronomer

News - 19 Sep 2007

Mirrors have special powers in the real world too, especially in the hands of an astronomer. In fact, modern astronomy depends on mirrors. Almost every telescope uses a mirror, sometimes several...
Universe's Earliest Stars May Hold Clues to the Nature of Dark Matter

News - 19 Sep 2007

The universe's earliest stars may hold clues to the nature of dark matter, the mysterious stuff that makes up most of the universe's matter but doesn't interact with light, cosmologists...
Revolutionary Optical Technology Reveals New Possibility

News - 17 Sep 2007

MEMSCAP, the leading provider of innovative solutions based on MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems) technology, today announces that it caters for the majority of the optical MEMS market needs...
Saturn's moon reveals the Yin-Yang of the Solar System

News - 14 Sep 2007

Cassini scientists are poring through hundreds of images returned from the 10 September fly-by of Saturn's two-toned moon Iapetus. The pictures show the moon's yin and yang - a white...
Construction of the Universe - Lego-like "building block" galaxies

News - 14 Sep 2007

The conventional model for galaxy evolution predicts that small galaxies in the early Universe evolved into the massive galaxies of today by coalescing. Nine Lego-like “building block”...

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