Personalized diets may offer relief to advanced cancer patients
It is well known that cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy and radiation therapy often experience nausea and loss of appetite. But until now, few researchers have looked into why this happens and what can be done to ensure that cancer patients maintain a healthy diet during treatment. view more (2007-03-12)
VTT technology helps in the assembly of microscopic components
Nowadays, micro-sized components that are invisible to the human eye are already being used both in electronics products and elsewhere. Components range from a millimetre to a micrometre in size and are getting even smaller. VTT has developed a unique prototype machine viewer system for use in the assembly and quality inspection of parts in this... view more... (2001-12-05)
Highlights from Opto and Laser Europe, July 2000
Consultants and suppliers question train signal claims Claims made by the UK's rail operator Railtrack that its signal lights conform to the International Commission on Illumination's (CIE) recommendations have been questioned by its signal suppliers and external technical consultants. The allegations follow a story in last month's issue (OLE June... view more... (2000-06-23)
Ground breaking research to end in tears
University of Western Sydney researcher, Associate Professor Tom Millar has approached the problem of dry eyes from a new perspective. He re-examined the structure and function of natural tears to find new clues for creating longer lasting artificial tears. view more (2007-05-30)
Microscope With Automatic Controls
Modern optical microscopes are high-tech devices with complex functions and operations. So that not just specialists can get the best out of these advanced instruments, Leica have produced a microscope which automatically selects the optimal combination of optical components. Many modern items of equipment can do too much. It is not only when... view more... (2004-07-08)
New light shed on marine luminescence
The phenomenon of light emission by living organisms, bioluminescence, is quite common, especially in marine species. view more (2009-02-23)
Mapping the cosmic web of dark matter
What is Dark Matter and where is it found? These are two of the major mysteries in current studies of the Universe. Although the nature of this invisible material remains elusive, astronomers are beginning to produce detailed maps of the Cosmos, showing its location in relation to the ordinary matter that we can see in telescopes. One of the... view more... (2002-04-03)
Argonne's Hard X-ray Nanoprobe provides new capability to study nanoscale materials
The Center for Nanoscale Materials' (CNM) newly operational Hard X-ray Nanoprobe at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory is one of the world's most powerful x-ray microscopes. view more (2008-06-25)
Open-source camera could revolutionize digital photography
Stanford photo scientists are out to reinvent digital photography with the introduction of an open-source digital camera, which will give programmers around the world the chance to create software that will teach cameras new tricks. view more (2009-09-04)
A clearer view of crystal growing
As technology progresses toward ever finer microelectronic structures, the wavelength of the ultraviolet radiation used to depict them has to be shortened. The emerging generation of photolithographic processes works at 157 nanometers - a wavelength at which glass and even quartz glass are not transparent enough. The preferred material here is... view more... (2002-09-20)
Knobbly kneed ID
Forget LED thumb-pad identification devices, complex retinal laser scanning, or even computerized iris recognition, the way forward for biometric validation is a quick X-ray snapshot of a person's knees, according to a report published in the International Journal of Biometrics. view more (2009-03-26)
Sharper pictures for the dream factory
Computer-generated special effects are a staple of contemporary film production. Digital images introduce complications, however, once it comes to projecting them onto movie screens in high quality. The majority of projectors still work with standard 35 mm film, which means that digital image sequences must be transferred frame by frame onto... view more... (2002-11-14)
Fantastic Voyage: A new nanoscale view of the biological world
Echoing the journey through the human body in Fantastic Voyage, doctors might soon be able to track individual donor cells after a transplant, or to find where and how much of a cancer treatment drug there is within a cell. view more (2006-10-05)
Sight for sore eyes
In a world-first breakthrough, University of New South Wales (UNSW) medical researchers have used stem cells cultured on a simple contact lens to restore sight to sufferers of blinding corneal disease. view more (2009-06-10)
Raman Effect Brings Nano up to Size : Raman/Rayleigh Imaging of Nanosized Materials
Materials made with (or from) nanophases received considerable attention in the last few years but their characterisation is not easy. Unique properties (conductivity, diffusion, reactivity, sintering, mechanical strength….) have been reported for nanostructured materials, all of which result from the interfacial characteristics. Raman... view more... (2003-06-08)
Major upgrade to world-leading synchrotron radiation source
Work has begun at CLRC's Daresbury Laboratory to upgrade the Synchrotron Radiation Source (SRS) following an agreement on funding by three Research Councils. The biology users of the SRS who are funded by the three Research Councils BBSRC (Biotechnology and Biological Sciences), MRC (Medical) and EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences), have... view more... (1996-11-19)
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