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Moths Adopted to Create Industrial Lens for Low Light Environment

When moths fly at night, their eyes need to capture all the light available. To do this, certain species have evolved nanoscopic structures on the surface of their eyes which allow almost no light to reflect off the surface and hence to escape.

26 Nov 2007

DESY Celebrates New Source of Especially Brilliant X-ray Light

DESY celebrates the topping-out ceremony for the experimental hall of PETRA III the new source of especially brilliant X-ray light in Hamburg. On occasion of the structural completion of the building, German Research Minister Dr. Annette Schavan and Hamburg s First Mayor Ole von Beust visited the Helmholtz research centre DESY. Its new light source PETRA III is due to be completed in 2009.

26 Nov 2007

New Microscopy Technique Enable Cancerous Cell Detection Without Any Label to Enhance Optical Contrast

A new microscopy technique could enable biologists to detect cancerous cells without the use of any label to enhance optical contrast.

26 Nov 2007

Nature Material That Could Facilitate High-Speed Adaptive Optics

Inspired by the way a carnivorous plant captures insects, US scientists have designed a new material that could facilitate high-speed adaptive optics.

26 Nov 2007

New Laser-Scanning Confocal Microscope Helping Researchers Explore Intriguing Objects

"See those white sparks?" asks Kirk Czymmek, as he points to the video on his computer screen of a highly magnified heart cell in action. Tiny fireworks flash across the screen with every pulsation of the cell.

21 Nov 2007

Telecommunications Manufacturers to Benefit from Photonic Crystals

Smaller, faster, more efficient: BASF research scientists are helping to revolutionize the future world of telecommunications – with the aid of three-dimensional photonic crystals. In a three-year project, BASF is researching into the development of these crystals together with partners such as Hanover Laser Center, Thales Aerospace Division, Photon Design Ltd., the Technical University of Denmark and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne.

20 Nov 2007

Optical Nanocircuits Could Replace Conventional Electronics

US researchers believe that tiny optical versions of capacitors, resistors and inductors can be made by adjusting the size, shape and composition of sub-wavelength nanoparticles.

19 Nov 2007

World's Most Powerful Telescope Installed by a Swedish University

Chalmers University of Technology in Goteborg, Sweden is the first institute in that country to have installed an FEI Titan scanning/transmission election microscope (S/TEM), the world's most powerful commercially-available microscope.

19 Nov 2007

Light Pulses Caught using Photonic Crystal Resonator

A team from Kyoto University has demonstrated a method for dynamically changing the lifetime of a photonic crystal resonator, which in effect can trap a pulse of light inside the system. Susumu Noda and his colleagues showed that the Q factor of their system, a measure of the number of time periods of light after which most of the light has left the system, could be increased by a factor of four from 3,000 to 12,000 within just a few picoseconds.

15 Nov 2007

TR-LIFS Combined with Other Diagnostic Technologies to Help Prevent Deaths Related to Heart Attacks

Prescient Medical, Inc., a privately held medical device company dedicated to reducing deaths from heart attacks, announces the acquisition of a new technology that identifies and quantifies metabolic activity and inflammation in human artery tissue by measuring the time it takes for light to dissipate after the tissue has been excited with ultra-short light pulses.

13 Nov 2007

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