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Water Stress in Wild Blueberry Fields Predicted Using Imaging Spectroscopy

Imaging spectroscopy can help predict water stress in wild blueberry barrens, according to a University of Maine-led study.

2 Jul 2021

New Method can Allow High-Speed Spectroscopic Measurements

Scientists from Tampere University along with their collaborators have demonstrated a new method to increase the speed of spectroscopic measurements.

22 Jun 2021

Scientists Study the Fundamental Properties of a Promising Class of Optoelectronic Materials

Researchers from Skoltech and Ludwig Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Germany have studied the fundamental properties of halide perovskite nanocrystals, a promising class of optoelectronic materials.

9 Jun 2021

Raman Spectroscopy: New Strategy of Evaluating Metastatic Risk in Breast Cancer

A new study, published on the bioRxiv* preprint server, gives us one new tool for the rapid diagnosis and analysis of tumors by making use of Raman spectroscopy.

4 Jun 2021

Researchers Develop Pure Silicon Multiplexer for Terahertz-Range Communications

A new multiplexer has now been created from pure silicon for terahertz-range communications in the 300-GHz band. The feat was achieved by a collaboration of scientists from Osaka University, Japan, and the University of Adelaide, Australia.

30 Apr 2021

Innovative Raman Spectroscopy to Characterize IDPs Linked to Parkinson’s Disease

Analyzing proteins at low concentrations, particularly those in a mixture of different conformations like intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs), can be challenging.

29 Apr 2021

Hard X-Ray Transient Grating Spectroscopy Used for Investigating Nanoscale Transport Phenomena

Transient grating spectroscopy is an elegant method that uses two laser pulses to activate a medium by creating an interference pattern made of parallel stripes of excitations that can be thermal, electronic, magnetic or even structural.

23 Apr 2021

Configuring Spectroscopic Imaging Tools for Accurate Breast Cancer Detection

One of the technical challenges the current data revolution faces is finding an efficient way to route the data. This task is usually performed by electronic switches, while the data itself is transferred using light confined in optical waveguides.

15 Apr 2021

Configuring Spectroscopic Imaging Tools for Accurate Breast Cancer Detection

Detecting and analyzing breast cancer goes beyond the initial discovery of the cancer itself. If a patient has a tumor removed and it needs to be analyzed to determine further treatment, it might be OK for the results to take 24 hours.

9 Apr 2021

Mass Spectrometry Helps Identify Molecular Composition of Meteorites

In an effort to find the origin of carbonaceous chondrites—the insoluble organic matter constituting the Murchison and Allende meteorites—researchers from Russia and Germany investigated their molecular composition.

6 Apr 2021

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