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Laser Technologies Help Eradicate Food-Borne Pathogen

News - 15 Jul 2007

Purdue researchers are developing two inexpensive technologies that may be able to prevent future food-borne illness, such as the recent outbreak of E. coli in contaminated spinach. Together,...

Researchers Develop Next Generation of Screening Devices

News - 15 Jul 2007

It might not be science fiction much longer. Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are developing the next generation of screening devices that will identify hazardous and toxic materials...

$2 Million to Improve Sensitivity and Resolution of the Keck Interferometer

News - 13 Jul 2007

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the W. M. Keck Observatory $2 million to improve the sensitivity and resolution of the Keck Interferometer. The improvements will enable the...

Rensselaer Researchers Analyze Specialized Pulsed Lasers injection Process on Living Cells

News - 13 Jul 2007

Specialized pulsed lasers have been used to inject individual cells with a variety of materials, but little is known about how this type of injection might affect living cells. For the first time,...

Chandra X-ray Observatory - Space Based Telescope Exploring The Invisible Universe

Article - 27 Jan 2008

To the human eye, space appears serene and void. It is neither. To the “eye” of an X-ray telescope, the universe is totally different - a violent, vibrant, and ever-changing place.

World's Best Microscope Revealed

Article - 23 Jan 2008

TEAM 0.5, the world's most powerful transmission electron microscope has been installed at the Department of Energy's National Center for Electron Microscopy (NCEM) at Lawrence Berkeley National...

Ultralight, Handheld Terahertz Spectrometer

News - 13 Jul 2007

"T-rays" have been touted as the next breakthrough in sensing and imaging, but the need for bulky equipment has been an obstacle to reaching the field's potential. Enter Brian...

Frontiers in Optics

News - 8 Jul 2007

The Optical Society of America's (OSA) Annual Meeting, Frontiers in Optics 2006, will cover the breadth of optical science and engineering. This meeting, co-located with Laser Science XXII, the...

Prescription Glasses - Lens Design, Materials and Optical Coatings

Article - 25 Sep 2007

A corrective lens is a lens worn on or before the eye - contact lenses or eyeglass lenses respectively. They are used to treat sight issues.

Adaptive Optics Help Sharpen Night Sky

News - 5 Jul 2007

An artificial, laser-fed star now shines regularly over the sky of Paranal, home of ESO's Very Large Telescope, one of the world's most advanced large ground-based telescopes. This system...