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and also examined the thickness and profile of the crust under the microscope. Convection currents are created both within the pan as a whole
and even teenage kicks, investigating other species helps us to hold a magnifying glass of sorts oe albeit one with a bit of distortion oe up to our own behaviours.
A quick look under the microscope confirmed that it was, in fact, real cat hair. The US Customs and Border Protection is hoping to open similar testing facilities in other ports over the coming years.
He even designed ingenious devices called stereoscopes, in which two slightly different versions of the same image viewed together through the instrument transformed into a single three-dimensional drawing.
Most of all, he used motion parallax oe a visual phenomenon that you'll notice
Bridgeman believed that the depth cues from motion parallax, shading, and perspective provided decent substitutes for stereovision.
even if they shake their heads to create motion parallax.""I compared their one-eyed judgments to their two-eyed judgments
It is really fascinating that you may just be able to have limited some really neural substrate that's binocular
#Bees Reveal Nature-Nurture Secrets oeits crazy how realistic they look when there under a microscope!
When you look at yourself in the mirror, what do you see? Do you see Super Homer,
Coffee filters make excellent covers. 2. Clean windows, mirrors, and chrome Coffee filters are lint-free so theyll leave windows sparkling. 3. Protect China by separating your good dishes with a coffee filter between each dish. 4. Filter broken cork from wine.
The suns rays, collected through reflecting mirrors, are used to heat water which then produces steam to power turbines.
1. CSP systems need water for cleaning the mirrors and for the generation of steam to drive the turbines which the greenhouses can provide. 2. The Greenhouse evaporators make very efficient dust traps (as do plants that are growing outside)
since the mirrors stay cleaner and therefore operate more efficiently. 3. In solar thermal power plants,
even when flying through optical illusions created in a lab. How theyre able to do this, with brains smaller than a peppercorn,
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#Sundaland Clouded Leopard Newly Identified Species Filmed for First time A newly identified Sundaland clouded leopard,
using a microscope on a Massachusetts beach. Once assembled, the 75 species were stripped then down to their DNA for a painstaking search to find genetic sequences that would appear across all arthropods, enabling statistical comparisons.
acting as a magnifying glass. The latter not only partly confirms the widely held belief of gardeners, but also opens an analogous issue of sunburn on hairy human skin after bathing. oein sunshine water drops residing on smooth hairless plant leaves are unlikely to damage the leaf tissue,
Smart Contact Developers The idea of smart#contact lenses the kind that can superimpose information on the wearer s field of view has been around for a while.
But the first iteration of smart contact lenses is already on the market and industry execs are beginning to generate a wide array of possible applications.
Smart contacts Photo credits Fast Company Smart Contacts The idea of smart#contact lenses, the kind that can superimpose information on the wearer s field of view has been around for a while.
But contact lenses are also being developed that use embedded sensors and electronics to monitor disease and dispense drugs.
By adding tiny light-emitting elements to contact lenses it is becoming possible to map digital images directly onto the wearer s field of vision to create a heads-up display
The first iteration of smart contact lenses are already on the market. The Triggerfish, created by Sensimed,
a spin-off from The swiss Federal Institute of technology in Lausanne, is powered a wirelessly contact lens designed to help people with glaucoma manage their treatment.
one of the tech geek s ultimate forms of display technologies will be the smart contact lens.
Monocle...Colorless green ideas sleep furiously...Up periscope!..Life is all about the journey, but sometimes it nice to know whats in the pipeline...
Run for your life!!!Deep down, were convinced all there is a sport that we can excel at...Question. Is it rude to invite a pig to a pig roast?..
but the effects on rodents often do not mirror those in people. Rinat Neuroscience had an experimental drug that sharply reduced appetite in rodents.
it may be possible to design a fabric that serves as an optical lens into our inner selves.
Smart Contacts-The idea of smart#contact lenses, the kind that can superimpose information on the wearer s field of view has been around for a while.
But contact lenses are also being developed that use embedded sensors and electronics to monitor disease and dispense drugs.
The first iteration of smart contact lenses are already on the market, but were not at CES. 15.)
and fashionably acceptable way soft contact lenses are evolved sleek, and from Google glass. Innovega led the early work here,
it might be helpful to note that this type of photo-luminescence is fluorescence (think#oeblack light#).
Scientists in China were able to do partial fluorescence back in 2006. And a transgenic pig was able to pass on these genes by giving birth to two glowing piggies in 2008.
It s both a practical tool and a kind of magic trick#spyglass onto distant worlds. To Levandowski,
Meter-long tubes packed with electronics and mirrors, these cameras are to be mounted to the outside of the International Space station.
One group of participants saw a digital representation of their current selves in a virtual mirror,
Telescopes##oethe Portland Public library, Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick and Raymond Village Library in Maine offer telescope checkout for patrons.
As part of the program, local astronomy clubs, who serve as the caretakers for the telescopes,
sidewalk events and other programs at libraries on how to use the telescope and how to look at the night sky.#
#Telescopes Other services Health and Government Assistance In Florida,#oethe Orange county Library System developed Right Service at the Right Time, a sophisticated database-driven web
Smart Contact App Developers Smart contact lenses superimpose information on the wearer s field of view. The bank of the future Crypto Currencies & Alternative Financial Systems In 2008 the entire world was beginning to panic as our global financial systems teetered ever so close to total meltdown.
The doomsday vault s entrance is a patchwork of reflective steel, mirror glass, and prisms lit by the arctic sun in summer and fiber optics in winter.
Genebanks in Iraq and Afghanistan, for example, were destroyed in recent years. In Afghanistan, looters were after the glass jars storing the seeds.
but the coloring of Santa's garb is meant mainly to mirror the coloring of Amanita mushrooms Rush added.
Researchers also got out their magnifying glasses to uncover the Lilliputian beetle a teeny-tiny insect measuring just 0. 09 inches (2. 3 millimeters) long.
Just one of three ferrets caged a short distance from infected ferrets caught the virus. The findings mostly mirror
if you turn it 90 degrees polarized in the same way some sunglasses reduce glare.
and tail off as the summer progresses reaching a lower baseline level for the winter Benbrook said adding that CLA levels mirror the amount of fresh forage in the cows'diet.
Another Halloween ritual involved looking in a mirror at midnight by candlelight for a future husband's face was said to appear (a scary variation of this later became the Bloody mary ritual familiar to many schoolgirls.
To test whether the bees were using the rate of apparent expansion of the image to calibrate their speeds the researchers used a familiar optical illusion.
Just as microscopes and telescopes help researchers see more about the world microphones can help them learn more about their surroundings via sound.
The scientists then placed these samples in a transparent hydrogel a material akin to ones used to make contact lenses.
and microscopes to see what occurred. The researchers found bubbles within the sap were linked to about half the sounds from the wood.
Entomologist Catherine Loudon and her colleagues at University of California Irvine with fellow researchers at the University of Kentucky used videography and scanning electron microscopy to investigate the possibility of creating synthetic leaf traps as a sustainable and nontoxic
and sculptures ornately designed rooms (like the oehall of Mirrors) and even technological innovations such as pressurized water fountains in its gardens that jetted water into the air
The king s bedroom and apartment area were located close to the Hall of Mirrors. Spawforth writes that the hall has 30 tableaux that tell an oeepic narrative of what oelouis (XIV) as King of France aspired to be.
The design of the hall added to the effect. oeviewing was to be helped by the famous wall of mirrors
The Hall of Mirrors was flanked on its north side by the Salon of War which has art depicting the king s victory against a European coalition in a war that ran from 1688-1697 and on its south side by a Salon of Peace
I was proclaimed Emperor of Germany in the Hall of Mirrors adding an extra layer of humiliation to The french defeat.
A high-powered microscope found minerals like hematite and feldspar just a hair's-width wide trapped in the core said Margariete Malenda a Kutztown undergraduate who performed the microscope analysis. The minerals suggest the spheres got their start
The structure of a molecule is far too small to be seen with even the most powerful of microscopes.
Use a magnifying glass for a closer look. 5. Ask your child questions such as: oewhat kind of dirt do you think is best for plants to grow in?
A sample of that saliva can also help geologists get a good look at a rock with their hand lens a portable magnifying glass.
The telescope is designed to examine dust grains in young star systems and was inaugurated officially this year.
while examining the volcanic hail with a scanning electron microscope. The first time I ever saw them I was looking at these volcanic ash aggregates
me The two most immediate patterns that tumble out of the triangle are its bilateral symmetry the left and right halves of the tree mirror each other perfectly and the sight of the familiar counting numbers marching down the inner diagonals on each
because tusks can poke inside a camera lens opening Ahmed said. We have to have equipment that can sustain an elephant trampling for an hour he said.
Mirror Lake: Though it s more of a pond than a lake this Yosemite Valley spot is an extremely popular destination.
but sunglasses might help protect them from pollen entering the eyes. If you're doing yard work avoid touching your hands to your face and eyes Patil recommended.
which gets its name from a statement the Red Queen made to Alice in Lewis carroll s Through the Looking-glass#:
or operating theatre offices or with an inevitably cold platter eaten with eyes glued to a microscope Lakhtakia wrote today (July 9) in the journal Medical Humanities.
so it can be examined under a microscope for any presence of urate crystals according to the NIAMS.
or produce them at harmful levels but without a microscope and laboratory its hard to distinguish the dangerous and harmless ones.
More dramatically live confocal laser scanning microscopy was used to produce films showing cancer cells change shape in the presence of Nad1.
and then return pre-dawn with a small telescope and try to capture a closer view.
A couple of the stars of the constellation Cassiopeia would serve as rough pointer stars to the great messier object and the comet and scanning with my binoculars
and balancing my telescope. The sounds of owls and night birds filled the air. Shivering from the cold I scanned the sky with binoculars until BAM!
There they were! Slewing the telescope I began to make my images. Tracking the pair
I made many images. In one I thought I had captured a meteor intersecting the comet's tail
and the only other thing that's digital is the digital optical microscopy. When I made images of the Siberian actinobacteria that's a digital image made on a microscope.
NEA: What do you think particularly with this project is the question that you think you're answering
if you have a telescope or you're some place that actually gets dark that all the stars that you see in the sky aren't necessarily all there.
Soundscapes Light Boxes and Microscopes (Op-Ed) NEA: More than a decade into the Oldest Living things project how have thoughts your about the relationship between art and science changed?
and placed them under a microscope. The researchers found one egg in the soil around the abdomen and pelvis of a child's skeleton.
How to spot coffee fraud Right now one way to detect counterfeit coffee is to put the grounds under a microscope
and sunglasses can help block pollens from your face before they find their way into your nose and eyes.
I shot each of the 16 frames with a Nikon D600 and 14-24mm aspherical wide-angle lens at 14mm and the same settings:
On September 7 2013 Australian Terry Lovejoy using an 8-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope discovered what would be designated comet Lovejoy.
This would be the test image for my newly modified telescope. As the night wore on
I scanned the skies with binoculars until the moment I made first contact with comet Lovejoy.
Slewing my telescope (moving to aim at a point in the sky) I found the comet in a 2-inch-wide-angle eyepiece one that gave
The eyepiece was a gift my mom had given me for my birthday the Christmas before (yes
There I stood at the eyepiece shivering not with cold but excitement. Behold a marvel in the darkness!
I then slipped the diagonal a device that that makes it easier to use refracting telescopes
when the eyepiece end of the telescope is uncomfortably low to the ground and eyepiece out of the telescope's focuser just then realizing how well the new focuser worked
and replaced it with a digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) camera refocusing carefully on the faint glowing orb that was Lovejoy.
Using a mirror helps kids see where they need to brush. According to the American Dental Association parents should begin flossing their child s teeth as soon as two teeth that touch appear.
Colorado, and his colleagues used the Keck telescope on Mauna kea, Hawaii, and the Anglo-Australian Telescope in Siding Spring in Australia to look for atomic
or molecular sodium both in the plumes and in one of Saturn's rings thought to be fed by these plumes, the E ring.
then they would throw up salt-rich jets giving out a strong sodium signal that could be spotted by ground-based telescopes.
because the small amounts of sodium he would expect to see would not be detectable using the Keck telescope.
The latter push mirrors, and was influenced by, the approach of the three-year-old Alliance for a Green revolution in Africa (AGRA), funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, Washington, the Rockefeller Foundation in New york and the UK Department
The collision sent hundreds of pieces of debris flying at high speed across low-Earth orbit, threatening other satellites and increasing the risk to a NASA shuttle mission to fix the Hubble Space Telescope
Sweden. go. nature. com/PUFASN 11 december NASA's orbiting infrared telescope, the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, is scheduled to launch. http://wise. ssl. berkeley. edu 14-18 december The American Geophysical Union meets in San francisco,
a star about one-thirteenth the mass of the Sun, using a telescope at the Palomar Observatory in southern California (S. Â Pravdo and S. Â Shaklan Astrophys.
At the Very Large Telescope in Chile, Bean placed a gas cell filled with ammonia in the path of the starlight,
Follow-up observations with some of the world's most powerful telescopes including the W. M. Keck Observatory atop Mauna kea, Hawaii,
Whereas the infrared Spitzer Space Telescope honed in on specific objects, WISE, with its huge field of view, will take an infrared census.
The week ahead 24 april The Hubble Space Telescope was launched 20 years ago on this day.
The modified Boeing 747sp aircraft sports a hole in its fuselage for a 2. 5-metre telescope,
Telescope woes The James Webb Space Telescope will cost at least US$6. 5 billion 墉 well over a previous $5-billion estimate 墉 according to an independent review released on 10 november.
Research Milky way's double bubble Using data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, a team of astronomers declared last week that they had discovered two gargantuan'bubbles'of ray-emitting particles extending north and south of our Galaxy's centre (M. Su et al.
Traditional tests, based on sputum-smear microscopy, can take up to three months to yield results, THE WHO said.
The deal 墉 subject to parliamentary ratification 墉 gives Brazilian astronomers access to telescopes at three sites in Chile operated by ESO,
The'Einstein telescope''to be constructed around 2025, would be ten times more sensitive than even second-generation detectors expected to come online around 2015,
But, says Coles, these findings mirror those from earlier trials, and it is possible to identify those patients most at risk by screening for certain biomarkers.
Asteroid fly-by Marshalling everything from major radar facilities to backyard telescopes, astronomers geared up this week for a fantastic view of an asteroid called 2005 YU55.
NASA science head John Grunsfeld, an astrophysicist and astronaut who carried out repairs on the Hubble Space Telescope
A twin Earth NASA's Kepler telescope has reached one of its major mission milestones: discovering another Earth-sized planet.
Telescope rivals The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has launched a competition for a giant ground-based telescope
) Two rival US projects, the Thirty Meter Telescope and the Giant Magellan Telescope, hope to earn some backing from the government agency,
15 21 june 2012space X-rays NASA s Nustar telescope, which will examine high-energy X-rays produced at the thresholds of black holes (see Nature 483,255;
and Barry Sharpless for his work on chemical syntheses that selectively create one of two mirror-image forms (enantiomers) of a molecule.
Private telescope A nonprofit foundation announced on 28 june that it plans to raise hundreds of millions of dollars to build a small space telescope that would orbit the Sun,
astronauts and former NASA officials, says that the telescope would be the world s first privately funded deep-space mission.
and in 1957 oversaw the construction of its iconic telescope then the world s largest fully steerable radio telescope which opened in time to track the launch of the first artificial satellite,
The physics prize was won by Serge Haroche and David Wineland, for their experiments in quantum optics.
Telescope array One of the world's most powerful radio-telescope arrays, the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder, was opened officially on 5 october at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in Western australia.
the telescope will map black holes and take a census of local galaxies, as well as testing out technology for a larger project in which it is due to be involved:
by measuring the faint fluorescence generated by plants during photosynthesis a measure of how efficiently they absorb carbon."
A nanotwin is a crystalline segment that mirrors the orientation of atoms on the other side of an interface (a so-called twin boundary) within a material.
4 10 january 2013gemini Observatory/AURAORION bullets shot in detail The Gemini South telescope in Chile has been fitted with five lasers
and three deformable mirrors, allowing astronomers to correct for atmospheric distortions over an exceptionally large field of view.
On 9 Â January, at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Long beach, California, astronomers unveiled the telescope s ultra-sharp portrait of the bullets of gas seen in the Orion Nebula.
NASA/ESA/M. Kornmessertrue blue planet Using the Hubble Space Telescope astronomers have discovered the deep blue hue of exoplanet HD Â 189733 Â b (pictured in an artist s impression) the first planet beyond the Solar system to have its colour directly measured.
The Subaru Telescope on Mauna kea Hawaii, took pictures of the exoplanet GJ 504b at near-infrared wavelengths with the help of adaptive optics.
GJ 504b is four times more massive than Jupiter and, with a surface temperature of 237 °C,
To secure funding from the space agency, the Kepler team will have to show that the studies could not be done by other telescopes.
and the telescope s focus will drift. Over time, starlight will start to fall on different pixels with slightly different sensitivities."
a different telescope, says Kepler scientist William Welsh of San diego State university in California. Kepler s drift could be minimized by keeping it pointed in the same plane in which the craft orbits the Sun. But that presents a complication.
By observing microlens planets using Kepler and ground-based telescopes at the same time, differences in transit duration and brightness emerge that can yield the planets mass.
including the Hubble Space Telescope and the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. On receiving recommendations from the review panel
and is continued counting on funding for the à Â-ray telescope.""My very biased and self-interested perspective is that
and resulted in the loss of observing time at major telescope facilities. See go. nature. com/u5kntz for more.
Students and staff at the University of London Observatory discovered the exploding star in the Ursa major constellation during a telescope lesson on 21 Â January.
The images from NASA s Hubble Space Telescope are part of the Frontier Fields programme which harnesses the phenomenon of gravitational lensing (see Nature 497,554-556;
It will use an array of 34 Â telescopes and cameras to search for Earth-sized planets and super-Earths at distances from their parent star that would allow them to be habitable.
19 february NASA announces findings from its high-energy X-ray mission, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (Nustar.
Inflation evidence A telescope at the South pole has revealed strong evidence that the Universe went through a period of rapid inflation just after the Big bang. To great excitement,
Massachusetts, announced that the telescope had spotted the influence of gravitational waves (ripples in space that inflation would have caused) on the cosmic microwave background,
I'd run after them sweating profusely with my binoculars steaming up. Plus the type of animal studies approved in the'70s
Its seems as I step out of the shower and pass the mirror I am blessed already to having one of my own.
Everything on the moon the rovers the flag the mirror could have been placed there by probes.
although no earth based telescopes have observed them) I repeat the Apollo missions were the only missions to leave LEO (low earth orbit).
This very deliberately mirrors the rising smoke of a mushroom cloud. The second below features a line for every person killed by the blast using the first-obtained casualty figures at respective distances from the blast.
It's designed to mirror the Uranium-235 atom which was used in the bomb...and 68 years later we are still keeping ourselves busy with extreme nuclear research building particle accelerators with ever increasing luminosity...
Back at Organovo inside an otherwise unremarkable neon-lit clean room Dallas arranges human cells into intricate patterns that mirror those of nature.
An example is a simple optical illusion: We can clearly move from System 1 to System 2
This five-second loop of video is a compression of images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope over a period of 43 minutes in May during
Robert H. Mcnaught discovery of this comet was made with one of the more then 10 telescopes on Siding Spring Mountain Top at 3822 ft above sea level Schmidt telescope at Siding Spring Observatory it is in New south wales Australia.
and mirrors to make it a slam dunk. Basically evolution is a concoction of vast amounts of time mixed with bunches of generational replication errors
In optics we call this diffuse reflection. A visual representation of diffuse reflection is when a LASER BEAM hits the surface of milk giving off a glow ball around the LASER spot.
A low-vacuum scanning electron microscope (LV-SEM) allowed the researchers to examine the bugs while they were trapped still on the leaves.
what terrestrial telescopes can accomplish. Telescopes only work at night which prevents us from seeing asteroids approaching the planet from the inside of Earth's orbit.
Also many asteroids are dark black and reflect less than 10 percent visible light making them hard to spot from Earth.
Lu has raised several million dollars toward a final goal of roughly $400 million through his B612 Foundation to launch a telescope called Sentinel into orbit near Venus. During a proposed 6. 5 year
And even if people had missed somehow an exploding star that star's remnants would still be out there today giving out a faint glow that could be picked up by telescopes.
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