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Greenhouse Gas Emission: A Case Study In 2007, German officials pledged that the country would reduce greenhouse gas emissions 40% by the year 2020. The country dedicated $580 billion and passed over ...

Imaging tools help us see into the world that is not possible with our naked eyes. It was with the invention of the microscope and the telescope that big frontiers in science were reached. We unlocked the ...

In 1842, Johann Doppler delivered his paper on Doppler effect to Royal Bohemian Society. In his paper “On the Colored Light of Double Stars and Some Other Heavenly Bodies”, he arrived at the ...

Introduction to the Photoacoustic Effect Alexander Graham Bell, a prolific inventor most celebrated for inventing the telephone, first observed the photoacoustic effect in 1880. Bell was experimenting with ...

New Changes in the Hands of the Everyday Individual: Photonics in Wearable Technology With rapid advancements in common devices like phones and watches, technology has become more prominent in everyday ...

Beam profiling systems are an essential technology to ensure the quality and uniformity of lasers. Beam profilers measure the optical spatial intensity of an input laser beam,  providing information about ...

Non-linear techniques in photonics have opened up new avenues for sensing and manipulating materials. In the 1960s, non-linear techniques were used to discover multiphoton absorption processes in ...

In 1963, Leon Goldman became the first person to report using lasers in dermatology. Goldman reported the effects of Ruby laser in the selective destruction of cutaneous pigmented structures, like black ...

A research team at Keio University in Japan devised a novel handheld viscosity sensor capable of quick, non-contact in situ measurements. Viscosity is a fundamental property for liquid analysis in a wide ...

Compound eyes provide insects with the ability to quickly react to danger. These eyes posses a much wider field-of-view, higher light sensitivity, and superior sensitivity to motion when compared to the ...