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Light Operated Nanomotors: How Optics Drives Nanotech Forward
Light Operated Nanomotors: How Optics Drives Nanotech Forward
Small mechanical systems and optics are interlinked in many ways. People use lasers to create small electronic systems like those found in semiconductors. Increasingly, light plays an important role in ...
New Photon Counting Plugin Solves Image Problems in Neurology
New Photon Counting Plugin Solves Image Problems in Neurology
Multi-photon microscopy is a useful tool for analyzing in-vivo interactions between photons and living tissues. One of its characteristics is deep tissue penetration, meaning it can get a better look at ...
Laser Ophthalmoscope: A Handheld Tool for Rural Optometry
Laser Ophthalmoscope: A Handheld Tool for Rural Optometry
Adaptive optics is a technology to compensate for distortions in an imaging system. It typically uses a deformable mirror, that deforms to adjust for incoming distortion as the image is taken. It has been ...
Optical Ultrasound: High Potential to Change Surgical Guidance
Optical Ultrasound: High Potential to Change Surgical Guidance
In modern medicine, the ultrasound is a go-to method for viewing the body’s internal structures, given its non-invasive nature. Ultrasound produces images in real time by relaying high frequency soundwaves ...
Photodynamic Therapy: Targeting Cancer with Light
Photodynamic Therapy: Targeting Cancer with Light
How research in photodynamic therapy may lead to new treatments of deadly diseases like cancer. Mesothelioma is a form of cancer that is most often associated with asbestos exposure.  Despite efforts of ...
Nature of Light
Nature of Light
In grade school, we have all learned that our universe is made up of three elementary particles: protons, electrons, and neutrons. Most don’t know that there is a total of 40 elementary species of ...
Portable Spectroscopy and How it is Changing Agriculture
Portable Spectroscopy and How it is Changing Agriculture
Precision agriculture is the practice of micromanaging crops to maximize yield, with the help of sensors, mapping techniques and laboratory studies like spectroscopy. This type of “smart” farming is ...
Microscopy on the Smartphone: Bright-field and Fluorescence
Microscopy on the Smartphone: Bright-field and Fluorescence
In healthcare terminology, diagnostics refers to classifying an illness or condition based on studying the symptoms. The process of diagnostics has been forever changed with technology. Quality medical ...
Virtual Reality (VR): Bringing CT to the Foreground of Surgery Prep
Virtual Reality (VR): Bringing CT to the Foreground of Surgery Prep
Virtual Reality (VR) has shown promise in displaying complex images in an immersive way. The Army, Air Force, and various police departments across the U.S. use VR to create training programs for ...
Evolution of Sun-Like Stars
Evolution of Sun-Like Stars
Stars have always fascinated astronomers and scientists alike. Some wondered whether there could be sun-like stars and a solar system similar to our own in other galaxies.  Others have wondered how stars ...