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LSI Industries Rolls Out Sterling (XSB) LED Area Light

LSI Industries Inc. announced today the introduction of the Sterling™ (XSB) LED area light. "With this introduction, LSI Industries has taken LED area lighting performance to a whole new level," commented Scott D. Ready, President.

5 Apr 2013

Larson Electronics’ New Metal Halide Light Tower to Illuminate Large Scale Operations

Larson Electronics has announced the release of a powerful new light tower designed to meet the needs of workers in demanding operations with high output metal halide fixtures and a pneumatically powered mast.

5 Apr 2013

Researchers Study Neural Networks Using Laser Light

There are cells in your brain that recognize very specific places, and have that as one of their main jobs. These cells, called place cells, are found in an area behind your temple called the hippocampus.

5 Apr 2013

Innovative Time-of-Flight Imaging System Can Scan Static Man-Made Targets

A standard camera takes flat, 2-D pictures. To get 3-D information, such as the distance to a far-away object, scientists can bounce a laser beam off the object and measure how long it takes the light to travel back to a detector.

From Optical Society Of America 5 Apr 2013

New Awake Imaging Technique Holds Potential to Advance Diagnostics Field

A technology being developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory promises to provide clear images of the brains of children, the elderly and people with Parkinson's and other diseases without the use of uncomfortable or intrusive restraints.

5 Apr 2013

Researchers Explore Photosynthesis Process Using Two-Dimensional Laser Spectroscopy

Pigments found in plants and purple bacteria employed to provide protection from sun damage do more than just that. Researchers from the University of Toronto and University of Glasgow have found that they also help to harvest light energy during photosynthesis.

5 Apr 2013

Wasatch Photonics’ Optical Imaging Technology Creates Images of Coronary Artery Walls in Vivo

Patients undergoing angioplasty or other heart-related medical procedures could benefit from a new technology being developed with funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Optical imaging technology from Wasatch Photonics Inc. creates images of coronary artery walls in vivo to show where lesions and plaques have formed.

From Wasatch Photonics, Inc. 4 Apr 2013

Magnalight Introduces VISAMBER LED Light Bar Featuring High Light Output and Extreme Durability

Larson Electronics has announced the release of an LED light bar designed to provide amber and white color output from a single lamp. The LEDLB-24E-VISAMBER LED Light Bar can produce white or amber light output as well as a combination of both and provides operators with a versatile lighting solution that can fill a variety of roles that would normally require multiple light sources.

4 Apr 2013

Nominations of Super-Efficient LED Lighting Invited for Global LEAP Outstanding Off-Grid Product Awards

Nominations are now open for the first round of the Global LEAP Outstanding Off-Grid Product Awards. The Global Lighting and Energy Access Partnership (Global LEAP) is an initiative under the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) focused on catalyzing markets to deliver increased access to modern energy services.

4 Apr 2013

Lasers Inspire Use of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation to Treat Cocaine Addiction

By stimulating one part of the brain with laser light, researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center at UC San Francisco (UCSF) have shown that they can wipe away addictive behavior in rats – or conversely turn non-addicted rats into compulsive cocaine seekers.

4 Apr 2013

Astronomers Explain Detective Telescopic Techniques Used to Find Elusive Exoplanets

The public is invited to experience "Stars and Planets Everywhere! Finding Other Worlds Beyond Our Solar System," a free event on April 10 at the Visitor Center at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The lecture will be presented by Jennifer Wiseman , senior astrophysicist at NASA Goddard.

4 Apr 2013

Advanced Microscopy Reveals Morphology of Single-Cell Protists

University of British Columbia researchers have discovered two new symbionts living in the gut of termites, and taken the unusual step of naming them after fictional monsters created by American horror author HP Lovecraft.

4 Apr 2013

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Attracts Thousands of People

Northrop Grumman Corporation's four-story high, tennis court-sized full-scale model of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope attracted thousands at the recent South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas.

3 Apr 2013

Lightwave Logic Perkinamine Indigo Optical Coating Holds Promise for Microelectronics Applications

Lightwave Logic, Inc., a technology company focused on the development of a Next Generation Non Linear Optical Polymer Materials Platform and Optical Devices for applications in high speed fiber-optic data communications and optical computing, announced today that preliminary testing results on devices recently coated with Perkinamine Indigo™ demonstrated several of the key performance parameters desired by our potential microelectronics customer.

3 Apr 2013

High-Speed Digital 3-D Holography Reveals Survival Behavior of Marine Copepods

Olympic swimmers aren't the only ones who change their strokes to escape competitors. To escape from the jaws and claws of predators in cold, viscous water, marine copepods switch from a wave-like swimming stroke to big power strokes, a behavior that has now been revealed thanks to 3-D high-speed digital holography.

3 Apr 2013