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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 ...
Telescopes: the Instruments of Cosmic Espionage
The nightly sky has fascinated early humans and modern research scientists alike. Many wonder what is out there and look to the sky for answers to questions like: are we alone? Due to the vast scale of the ...
Clear Lenses as Efficient Ocular Protection against UV Exposure
A joint team of researchers from the University of Tuebingen in Germany and Carl Zeiss Vision explore the efficiency of clear lenses as forms of ocular protection against UV light in a recently published ...
Artificial Photoreceptors: Nanowire Arrays as Subretinal Prosthetic Devices
A new paper details the potential use of nanowire arrays as artificial photoreceptors. The Zhongshan Hospital-affiliate team from Fudan University in Shanghai observed visual responses in blind mice fitted ...