At Caltech, engineers have developed a new camera design that replaces the lenses with an ultra-thin optical phased array (OPA).
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Traditional cameras -- even those on the thinnest of cell phones -- cannot be truly flat due to their...
This is an artist's rendering of a quantum thermometer.
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In an arranged marriage of optics and mechanics, physicists have created microscopic structural beams that have a variety of powerful uses when light strikes them. Able to operate in...
A Singapore-based team of scientists from the Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR and The Logistics Institute-Asia Pacific has presented a model that looks into the logistics of disaster relief using open data and tools and measures developed in...
Stanford scientists have designed a copper catalyst that produces ethanol from carbon dioxide and water.
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Most cars and trucks in the United States run on a blend of 90 percent gasoline and 10 percent ethanol, a renewable...
Seamstress sewing.
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Haute couture can be credited for enhancing more than catwalks and red carpets. New research from the University of California, Berkeley suggests that the 3D or "stereoscopic" vision of dressmakers is as sharp...
Shimon, a robot in the Center of Music Technology and School of Music.
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A marimba-playing robot with four arms and eight sticks is writing and playing its own compositions in a lab at...
New device creates entangled photons that span the traditional telecommunications spectrum, making it appealing for multi-channel quantum communication and more powerful quantum computers.
Credit: Michael Kues, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), University of Quebec, Canada
Quantum mechanics, with its...
Our color vision is superior at spotting "social signaling," such as blushing or other facial color changes, when compared to other types of color vision, including the type we design for digital cameras and other photographic devices. In their...
This is a grizzly bear in Canadian Rockies.
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University of Montana doctoral candidate Robin Steenweg shows how remote cameras can transform monitoring wildlife and habitat biodiversity worldwide in a paper published Feb. 1 in the...
Snow and ice cover can camouflage seals, making it more difficult for scientists to estimate the animals' populations with accuracy.
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Using research drones, thermal cameras and free images from Google Earth, two Duke University-led studies confirm that gray...
Glaucio Paulino, a professor in Georgia Tech's School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Jerry Qi, a professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech, hold objects 3-D printed that use tensegrity, a structural...
