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Two-Beam Technique Stores Slow-Light Images in Atomic Vapor

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

If you shine a flashlight’s beam into a fog, you will see the light reflect softly as it disperses through the water particles. Shut the beam off, and

New Guide Helps Check Vision of Search-and-Rescue Robots

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Once the sole province of science fiction writers, robots of the stage, screen and written page typically took the form of humans — they stood on two

Smart Greenhouse Uses Liquid Crystal

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Liquid crystal technology is being used in a greenhouse project launched jointly by Cleveland Botanical Garden and by Kent State University’s Liquid C

From Infinitesimal Seeds, a Mighty (If Tiny) Forest Grows

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Using chemical vapor deposition, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have made nanometer-scale lead sulfide wires that sprouted into tr

Roundness (and Mass) Redefined

Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Most spheres look round enough to the unaided eye.

But study a marble, a bowling ball or even a distant planet closely enough, and it quick

Bolometer-Based System Images Items at Terahertz Range

Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A technology developed to help ground-based telescopes discern tiny fluctuations in stellar radiation may also become useful for medical and security

A Tiny Diamond Ring

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT