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New Laser-Based Technique Provides First Non-Invasive Test to Measure Skin Aging

Physicists and medical researchers for the first time have demonstrated a new technique that non-invasively measures in real time the level of damage to the skin from sun exposure and aging, and initial results suggest that women's skin ages faster than men's.

5 Jul 2007

Electrons Observed in Tunnelling Process

We have to climb a mountain in order to conquer it. In quantum physics there is a different way - objects can reach the opposite side of a hill simply by tunnelling through it, instead of laboriously climbing over it.

5 Jul 2007

Dr. Peli of Schepens Eye Research Institute Elected SPIE Fellow

The International Society for Optical Engineering will honor 56 new Fellows of the Society this year.

5 Jul 2007

Near-Infrared Optics and MRI Combined to Diagnose Breast Cancer

By combining two techniques, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and near-infrared optics, researchers at Dartmouth College and Dartmouth Medical School may have devised a new, potentially more accurate method for diagnosin...

5 Jul 2007

Conference to Profile Advances in Optics for Biotechnology, Medicine and Surgery

The primary goal of this conference is to bring together scientists, engineers, and clinicians interested in the application of optics to biotechnology, medicine, and surgery. In addition to formal presentations, this...

5 Jul 2007

Adaptive Optics Help Find Supermassive Black Holes

Astronomers have discovered the exact location and makeup of a pair of supermassive black holes at the center of a collision of two galaxies more than 300 million light years away. Using adaptive optics (AO), which c...

5 Jul 2007