Synopsis: Domenii: Photonics & laser: Photonics & laser colaterale: Light:


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The findings are particularly significant in the light of improving life expectancies and the associated increase in cases of ARMD.


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#A Light-Reflecting Balloon Catheter Repairs the Heart without Surgery Harvard-affiliated researchers have designed a specialized catheter for fixing holes in the heart by using a biodegradable adhesive and patch.

Their catheter device utilizes UV LIGHT technology and can be used to place the patch in a beating heart.

The clinician then deploys the patch and turns on the catheter UV LIGHT. The light reflects off of the balloon shiny interior

and activates the patch adhesive coating. As the glue cures, pressure from the positioning balloons on either side of the patch help secure it in place.

and then activate it using UV LIGHT, all within a matter of five minutes, and in an atraumatic way that doesn require a separate incision. e


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light and texture, it is a major step. t does indeed sound like a major step when Nili goes on to describe the capability of the newly tuned memristors. e have introduced now controlled faults or defects in the oxide material along with the addition of metallic atoms,


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#See through Walls by the Glow of Your Wi-fi It used to be that a bad guy besieged by police could just shoot out the lights and hide in the dark.


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and whether the fog lights are on. Auxiliary data might include barometric pressure, the temperature of the road itself (taken by infrared sensors), barometric pressure,


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The semitransparent design of these solar cells means that they can absorb light from both sides

and could allow them to be used as windows that serve the dual function of letting light into a building

In the design of the Hong kong researcherssolar cell, the perovskite serves as active layer for harvesting the light,


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The semitransparent design of these solar cells means that they can absorb light from both sides

and could allow them to be used as windows that serve the dual function of letting light into a building

In the design of the Hong kong researcherssolar cell, the perovskite serves as active layer for harvesting the light,


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#Reseachers Create First Integrated Circularly Polarized Light detector on a Silicon chip What do you get when you combine some biomimicry, metamaterials and nanowires?

It turns out to be integrated the first circularly polarized light detector on a silicon chip. Its development could usher in a new generation of portable sensors that can use polarized light for applications ranging from drug screening to quantum computing.

Researchers at Vanderbilt University have used silver nanowires to fabricate a metamaterial that is capable of detecting polarized light in a way not unlike the way cuttlefish, bees,

the polarization state of light can provide a lot of valuable information, said assistant professor Jason Valentine in a press release. owever,

In contrast to non-polarized light, in which the electric fields of the photons are oriented in random directions,

With circularly polarized light, the plane is continually rotating through 360 degrees.)One of the distinguishing capabilities of circularly polarized light (CPL) is that it can discern the difference between right-handed and left-handed versions of molecules property known as chirality.


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#MIT's 3-D Microwave Camera Can See through Walls Visible light is all well and good for things like eyeballs,

in 3-D. A microwave camera is sort of like a cross between a visible light camera and a radar imaging system,


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The researchers added their new lights nearly meet the most stringent requirements of the National Television systems Committee (NTSC),

which emits deep blue light very brightly. This compound also emits light efficiently because its design reduces the chances that light-emitting excitonslectrons bound to their positively charged counterparts,

holesill either get lost as heat or destroy the compound itself, Lee says. Unfortunately, this new PHOLED has a brief operational lifetime,

just like many other blue PHOLEDS, Lee says. Future research will focus on stabilizing the molecule at the heart of this new PHOLED to create a longer-lasting version of the device.


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or infrared light) and measuring how it bounces or otherwise interacts with the environment. They work well for indoor situations and benefit from an existing base of software designed for this technique,


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you have electrical conduits, lights, and outlets. n order for DOM Indoors to be viable in real life,


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because the researchers use a red dye to tune the wavelength of light it captures

because the researchers use a red dye to tune the wavelength of light it captures


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"We're good at generating electrons from light efficiently, but chemical synthesis always limited our systems in the past,


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Visitors to the cave must have created artificial light, as with a torch, Wood said. The people who did cave drawings in Europe had such technology,


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the new technique has some similarities to the burgeoning use of light to activate cells

The new method-which uses the same type of waves used in medical sonograms-may have advantages over the light-based approach-known as optogenetics-particularly


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and conceal them from detection with visible light. Although the cloak is microscopic, the principles behind the technology should enable it to be scaled-up to conceal macroscopic items as well,

The cloak's surface was metaengineered to re-route reflected light waves to render the object invisible to optical detection when activated.

"This is the first time a 3d object of arbitrary shape has been cloaked from visible light, "said author Xiang Zhang, director of US department of energy's Berkeley l Laboratory material sciences division n


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which colors of light they absorb. But this instrument, a spectrometer, is not as sharp as the camera,


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#UV LIGHT-enabled catheter to fix holes in heart without operation WASHINGTON: Researchers have designed a specialised catheter for fixing holes in the heart using a biodegradable adhesive

Their newly designed catheter device utilises UV LIGHT technology, and can be used to place the patch in a beating heart.

The clinician then deploys the patch and turns on the catheter's UV LIGHT. The light reflects off of the balloon's interior

and activates the patch's adhesive coating. As the glue cures, pressure from the positioning balloons on either side of the patch help secure it in place.


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flexible tube with a light and camera attached to its end passes through a person digestive system.


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As the directed light moves upward and hardens the resin, the object is built layer by layer,

durable prints. he big work wee done is to deploy the chemistry for a new resin that is capable of being cured not by UV LIGHT,


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which is solidified then once exposed to UV LIGHT. This advanced process results in these 3d printed microfish, able to swim naturally through liquids,

and detoxification is monitored easily due to the red light that is emitted on the device when nanoparticles are introduced to the particular toxins.


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and can render it undetectable with visible light. The researchers said while their experiments involved cloaking a miniscule object they believe the technology could be made to conceal larger objects, with military and other possible applications.

The cloaking'skin'boasts microscopic light scattering antennae that make light bouncing off an object look


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*and ion concentration--critical markers for many disorders--rely on various nanosensors that are probed using light at optical frequencies.


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in this case, the light-emitting layer and all other components are produced by means of wet-chemical, printable methods.

which the light-emitting particles are sandwiched in a dielectric binder layer. At least one of the conductive layers is also transparent.

On application of an AC voltage, light is emitted from the electroluminescent layer. e embed luminous particles in the form of functionalized zinc sulphide nanoparticles as phosphors into the binder layer,

At present this allows the generation of green and blue-green light. The electroluminescent light sheets developed at the INM can be connected directly to the customary mains voltage of 230 volts.

The researchers are currently working on further functionalization of the phosphor nanoparticles. ur goal is to generate white light by means of an altered doping


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instead scanning the sample with infrared light to directly measure the chemical composition of the cells.


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For example, the chemistry of the hydrogel can be modified to respond to changes in temperature, light, electric and magnetic fields,


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and chemical materials are caused by wavelength selective light absorption in organic molecules. Currently, colors on computer and iphone screens come from dye materials pre-placed on the pixels.

because one wavelength of light is absorbed completely, "explains Dr. Guo, while his student holds a collection of color samples."

A lot of colors you see in nature are due to wavelength selective light absorption in organic molecules which cannot withstand high temperatures,

Ultraviolet light destroys organic dye molecules over time, leading to color change and fading. The new technology may hold promise for many applications such as for jewelry, automotive interior trim, aviation, signage, colored keypads, wearable and electronic displays.


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Microscopythe Microscopy business group at ZEISS is the world's only manufacturer of light, X-ray and electron microscopes.

The product range includes light and laser scanning microscopes, X-ray microscopes, electron and ion microscopes and spectrometer modules.


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if we want to see an object smaller than the wavelength of visible light, we cannot use conventional optics.


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This creates highly bundled light a hundred times smaller than the wavelength of light, which otherwise represents the limit of"normaloptics with lenses and mirrors. n principle,

The principle in such pump-probe experiments that function, for example, with light, pressure or electric field pulses is as follows:


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As brighter and more powerful light sources come online researchers are devising new ways to overcome these limitations.

its routine practical realization has only now become feasible with the advent of modern X-ray light sources.

This novel reconstruction method plays a central role in mapping out the strengths of fluctuation scattering as a routine biophysical technique. vercoming the Limitations of Traditional Imagingwith advances in light source technology,

One solution to overcome the limitations of SAXS/WAXS is to build faster and brighter light sources that can ake a picturefar quicker than this rotational diffusion time.

such as the Linac Coherent light Source (LCLS) at Stanford. Extracting additional angular correlation information through a technique known as fluctuation X-ray scattering (FXS) has been suggested

including work at synchrotron light sources and nanoscience research centers. OE light sources offer a rich environment for tackling wonderful math problems whose solutions can make a major impact on fast moving sciencesays Sethian. ombining Zwart insight into the problem with Donatelli

background in harmonic analysis and iterative phasing algorithms set the stage for a new way to think about reconstruction from FXS data. he Future of FXSBEAMTIME at the LCLS was awarded recently to the authors as part of a large multi-institutional collaboration to collect FXS data

but this is an important breakthrough. he researchers emphasize that FXS data may also be collected using an ultrabright synchrotron light source from particles cryogenically frozen in place.

The National institutes of health recently awarded Zwart and coworkers a new detector for the development of this method on synchrotron light sources. ecent advances in detectors,

says Steven Kevan, Deputy Director for Science at the Berkeley Lab Advanced Light source (ALS). e are looking forward to the development of this technique at the Advanced Light source. he researchers note that

although the method they developed has been applied on problems specific to the life sciences, it can be extended to other applications in material and energy sciences as well.


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The experiments, at the Linac Coherent light Source (LCLS) X-ray laser at the Department of energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory


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whose spatial resolution surpasses a theoretical limit imposed by the wavelength of light, offering extraordinary visual detail of structures inside cells.

while it is illuminated by a pattern of light (more like a bar code than the light from a lamp).

Several different light patterns are applied, and the resulting moiré patterns are captured from several angles each time by a digital camera.

and the fact that it took so much less light than the other methods, "Betzig says.

then a wave of light is used to deactivate most of them. After exposure to the deactivating light,

only molecules at the darkest regions of the light wave continue to fluoresce. These provide higher frequency information

What's more, the repeated light exposure damages cells and their fluorescent labels.""The problem with this approach is that you first turn on all the molecules,

A new pattern of light is used to deactivate molecules, and additional information is read out of their deactivation.


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short wavelength light sources fill the critical need for metrology to bridge this gap. As an example,

or laser-like, beams of EUV light with wavelength at 30 nm nearly an order of magnitude shorter that the excimer, achieving very high-contrast images with a resolution of 40 nm laterally


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these then switch the particlesstate when light is shined on them. According to the group research, which recently appeared in Nature Chemistry,

In the version of the photoresponsive molecule employed by Klajn and his group, absorbing light switches the molecule to a form that is more acidic.

and disperse in the light. This means that any nanoparticles that respond to acid a much larger group than those that respond to light can now potentially be manipulated into self-assembly.

By using light a favored means of generating nanoparticle self-assembly to control the reaction,

wo Institute scientists, Ernst Fischer and Yehuda Hirshberg, were the first to demonstrate the light-responsive behavior of spiropyrans in 1952.

Now, 63 years after the first demonstration of its light-responsive properties, we are using the same simple molecule for another use, entirely,


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"We're good at generating electrons from light efficiently, but chemical synthesis always limited our systems in the past.


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what is observable using visible light. However EM carries with it significant limits, including the fact that it does not work on living cells.

Partly, this blind spot is due to the limits of optical microscopes, which can only see objects that are larger than the wavelengths of light with

which they are viewed. A common alternative, electron microscopes, can see much smaller objects, but do not work on living cells.

2015, a team of researchers from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research and the University of Colorado Boulder combined two optical systems in a new way to get around the natural limits of optical microscopes.

doubling the resolution of optical microscopes. The other, single-particle averaging (SPA), brings tiny objects and their locations into sharper focus by averaging many images into one"typical"picture.


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an element used in incandescent light bulbs. As the sample was tilted 62 times, the researchers were able to slowly assemble a 3-D model of 3, 769 atoms in the tip of the tungsten sample.


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antenna-rectifier diodes that convert light into DC current, have been built using multiwall carbon nanotubes with integrated nanoscale rectifiers.

However, the low cost and potential high efficiency of a rectenna capable of capturing visible light caused researchers to continue their study.

-Prof Baratunde Cola, Georgia Tech The team employed nanoscale fabrication techniques alongside metallic multiwall carbon nanotubes to build devices that utilized light's wave nature rather than its particle nature.

which is sufficient for ejecting electrons out of the carbon nanotube antennas upon the absorption of visible light Light in the form of oscillating waves interacts with nanotubes after going through the calcium-aluminum electrode.


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the Advanced Light source.""I had a lot of questions, and I read a ton of papers in the field,


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which generates a light signal. The sensor does need not to be activated chemically and is rapid-acting within five minutes-enabling the targeted antibodies to be detected easily, even in complex clinical samples such as blood serum."


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and regulate the exchange of light, heat, and moisture. They thus play a special role in nature and technology.

scattered light and thermal noise. The tiny plastic sphere, the probe, appears to move in a chaotic manner inside the light trap due to the so-called thermal noise.

"Once there, the probe records the scattered light from the surface and subtracts it. But before the probe can escape,


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Nanoparticles with sizes the order of a wavelength interact with light in specific ways. A young investigator group at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, led by Professor Martina Schmid,

since less light is absorbed. And if the active layer is thinner than one micrometer, an additional problem arises:

the idea was that they would act as light traps and increase absorption in the CIGSE layer.

%Light trapping and prevention of charge carrier losshis leads to efficient light trapping and does not deteriorate the cell,


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which also includes an LED light source, power supply, control unit, optical system and image sensor, cost less than $3, 000 to construct.


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#Innovative Light-Sensing System Reconstructs Human Postures Continuously and Unobtrusively A Dartmouth College team has created the first light-sensing system that reconstructs human postures continuously

and unobtrusively, furthering efforts to create smart spaces in which people control their environment with simple gestures.

and her team have created the first light-sensing system that reconstructs human postures continuously and unobtrusively.

but advances in visible light communication (VLC) add a new dimension to the list: data communication. VLC encodes data into light intensity changes at a high frequency imperceptible to human eyes.

or gym that takes the advantage of the ubiquity of light as a medium that integrates data communication and human sensing.

They built the-first-of-its-kind light sensing testbed in the Dartnets lab using off-the-shelf LED LIGHTS, photodiodes, and microcontrollers.

Lisense uses shadows created by the human body from blocked light and reconstructs 3-D human skeleton postures in real time.

First, multiple lights on the ceiling lead to diminished and complex shadow patterns on the floor,

so they designed light beacons enabled by VLC to separate light rays from different light sources

"Imagine a future where light knows and responds to what we do. We can naturally interact with surrounding smart objects such as drones

and smart appliances and play games, using purely the light around us. It can also enable a new,


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But the fibrils that are believed to be most harmful are too tiny to be seen using an optical microscope.

so that light can now go through.""This disturbance on the membrane--the imprint of the protein fibers--is transmitted down through the liquid crystal film,

so that it is large enough to be seen in polarized light with a simple optical microscope. Microscopic bright spots Seen through the microscope,


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The problem with light is that it cannot penetrate through tissues-it is scattered very quickly.

"although this term had already been applied to the idea of combining ultrasound scans with genetic tests for prenatal diagnosis."Light-based techniques are great for some uses and


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Suppression of CEACAM20 functions via dephosphorylation was suggested to contribute to preventing colitis. By shedding light on the anti-inflammatory mechanism of the intestinal epithelial cells, Prof.


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which generates a light signal. The sensor does need not to be activated chemically and is rapid-acting within five minutes-enabling the targeted antibodies to be detected easily, even in complex clinical samples such as blood serum."


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The research shines a light on what happens to cells at the moment they become cancerous. The research and preclinical trial results were published this month as an open access article in EBIOMEDICINE,


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because it sheds new light onto how the functional properties of the enzyme can manifest in disease.


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Now, researchers from MIT and the Federal University of Goias in Brazil have developed a new technique that uses ultraviolet (UV LIGHT to extract man-made pollutants from soil and water.

With the help of nanoparticles and UV LIGHT removal of these toxins could be less expensive and time-consuming than current methods.

and colleagues stumbled upon the idea of using UV LIGHT while they were initially designing photosensitive polymers for drug delivery applications.

Once they came up with a polymer that responded to UV LIGHT, they realized that this did not permeate well through skin

therefore asked ourselves in which infrastructures UV LIGHT was used already, Bertrand told Laboutlook. Knowing that UV radiation is used for removing bacteria from water,

when you shine UV LIGHT on them, the water-loving part is separated from the water-fearing part.


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#A Natural light Switch MIT scientists, working with colleagues in Spain, have discovered and mapped a light-sensing protein that uses Vitamin b12 to perform key functions,

benefit from knowing whether they are in light or darkness. The photoreceptors bind to the DNA in the dark,

such as the engineering of light-directed control of DNA transcription, or the development of controlled interactions between proteins. would be interested very in thinking about


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ALK-positive NSCLC is often found in younger people who have a light or nonsmoking history.


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#Researchers Learn How To Steer The Heartith Light, University of Oxford Study Researchers learn how to steer the heart--with light We depend on electrical waves to regulate the rhythm of our heartbeat.

When those signals go awry, the result is a potentially fatal arrhythmia. Now, a team of researchers from Oxford and Stony Brook universities has found a way to precisely control these waves-using light.

and being able to get the light to desired locations. However, as gene therapy moves into the clinic


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"In light of the overwhelming impact of spinal cord injury, new therapeutic interventions for drug discovery and cell therapy are needed urgently."


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which also includes an LED light source, power supply, control unit, optical system, and image sensor, cost less than $3, 000 to construct.


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which is designed to maximise the radiating of heat, in the form of infrared light, out and away from the cell into space.


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It was worked Maxwell who out in the 1870s that light exerts a force on any surface it hits,


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when put under a UV LIGHT. The rubbing broke the balance in the side chains of the molecules,

'Under ambient light you cannot see the emission normally.''At high temperatures around 100°C (212°F) when the molecules moved freely,

and erase luminescent information also suggests the potential for use in computer memory that encodes information with light rather than magnetism g


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CA.'The light was green, but traffic was backed up on the far side, so three cars, including ours,

when a cyclist ran a red light. Another car, driven by a human, went ahead and nearly hit the cyclist.


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when to seek light in the days before a journey, and artificially triggers sensors in your eyes during the flight to trick the brain into adjusting to the new time zone.

This is done using Bright light Therapy which artificially triggers the light sensors in a person's eyes to make their brain believe the sun is coming up.

'The Neuroon is an artificial light source-it activates the light sensitive receptors that send information to our brains.'


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and advised those looking to see the bright streaks of light to head to rural spots.

The best way to catch a glimpse of the light show is away from bright lights and big cities to minimise light pollution,


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researchers have managed to teleport packets of light over 60 miles (100km) of optical fiber. The research could have implications for cryptography,

and light being teleported across the Danube river in Austria. In 2014, physicists at the University of Geneva teleported the quantum state of a photon to a crystal over 15 miles (25km) of optical fibre.


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'or'no'to each question by looking at one of two flashing lights attached to their computer screen.


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The breakthrough sheds light on the phenomenon known as'post-treatment control'-where the virus remains undetectable in some patients even after medication is stopped.


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Conductive Composites has created a method to layer nickel on carbon to form a material that's light


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pressure signals from the skin generated light pulses that activated a line of light-sensitive nerve cells. Other methods of stimulating nerves were likely to be used in real prosthetic devices,


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to switching off the lights. a 11 x 11 dot matrix LED face, displays settings and third party options,


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In an article published in Light: Science & Applications, the team of Camille Brès at EPFL described a way to design these lasers at a lower cost,

The light circulates in the ring passing through the gain region many times thus gaining more and more power,

which forces the light to circulate in a single direction. At PHOSL, researchers built a thulium-doped fibre laser that works without an isolator.

to steer light instead of stopping it.""We plug a kind of deviation that redirects the light heading in the wrong direction,


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#Researchers learn how to steer the heart--with light We depend on electrical waves to regulate the rhythm of our heartbeat.

and being able to get the light to desired locations. However, as gene therapy moves into the clinic


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Not only does this cast an important light on how cancer metastasizes and recruits cellular material from healthy cells,


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which sheds new light on the fight against oral cancer, is published today in the journal Stem Cell Reports.


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and the Pennsylvania State university have discovered accidentally a new way of using light to draw and erase quantum-mechanical circuits in a unique class of materials called topological insulators.

"It's one of those rare moments in experimental science where a seemingly random event--turning on the room lights--generated unexpected effects with potentially important impacts in science and technology."

"There was a slow drift in our measurements that we traced to a particular type of fluorescent lights in our lab. At first we were glad to be rid of it,

and then it struck us--our room lights were doing something that people work very hard to do in these materials."

the contractor that renovated the lab space for more information about the lights.""I've never had a client

when exposed to ultraviolet light, and their room lights happened to emit at just the right wavelength.

The electric field from the polarized strontium titanate was leaking into the topological insulator layer, changing its electronic properties.

Awschalom and his colleagues found that by intentionally focusing beams of light on their samples,

they could draw electronic structures that persisted long after the light was removed.""It's like having a sort of quantum etch-a-sketch in our lab,

They also found that bright red light counteracted the effect of the ultraviolet light, allowing them to both write and erase."


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