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Light dancing on glass
New type of material lets light travel across its surface without interruption
Posted in Light & Radiation, Physics, Technology & Engineering
Tagged conductor, Cornell University, crystal, electrons, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany, getinvolved, Haifa, insulator, Ithaca, Jacob Taylor, Joint Quantum Institute, light, materials science, Michal Lipson, Mordechai Segev, New York, photons, physics, superconductor, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, topological insulator, topology, University of Maryland
Feeling the invisible
Sensor wired into a rat’s brain lets it detect light it can’t see
Posted in Animals, Light & Radiation, Tech & Math, Technology & Engineering
Tagged bioengineer, brain, Duke University, electromagnetic radiation, getinvolved, infrared light, Miguel Nicolelis, neuroscientist, plasticity, rat, San Diego, sight, spectrum, Todd Coleman, topstories, touch, University of California
Crime-solving camera
Quick-change trick allows a digital camera to photograph blood concealed by paint
Posted in Light & Radiation
Tagged blood, blood detection, camera, crime, detectives, filter, filters, forensic science, forensics, getinvolved, Glenn Porter, infrared, lens, Lenses, lenses/mirrors/filters, light, paint, photography, physics, radiation, University of Western Sydney, wavelength
Too fast to be true
Human error, not new physics, may explain surprising speeds of tiny neutrinos
Posted in Light & Radiation
Tagged getinvolved, human error, motion, Neutrino, particle, physics, Speed
Neutrinos not so fast
Scientists say the particles may not outrace light after all
Posted in Light & Radiation
Tagged getinvolved, modern physics, nuclear particle, physics, speed of light
Breaking the universal speed limit
Particles appear to race faster than the speed of light
Posted in Light & Radiation
Tagged getinvolved
Like electricity, but magnetic
Getting magnetic poles on the move makes a new kind of flow
Posted in Light & Radiation
Tagged electricity, electromagnetism, getinvolved, magnetism, Magnetricity, Magnets, physics, Poles
New waves for safe flying
Scientists are perfecting a new generation of airport scanning machines.
Posted in Light & Radiation
Earth from the inside out
An invisible particle sheds light on the mysterious interior of the Earth
Posted in Light & Radiation
Tagged Neutrino, nuclear, radioactivity
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