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fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
3 weeks ago

60Hz Thermal and 4K Night Vision in One Device. SpectraEyes Basically Gives You Superman's Vision - Yanko Design

The core innovation lives in what SpectraEyes calls the Real-Time Dual-Screen Synchronization System. Rather than attempting to merge thermal and night vision into a single confused image, the optics route each feed to its own dedicated 1280×720 LCD screen inside the binocular housing.
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fromMail Online
2 weeks ago

Launching 50,000 mirrors into space will 'significantly' disrupt sleep

Launching 50,000 mirrors into space for sunlight could disrupt sleep and ecosystems on a planetary scale.
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fromFast Company
3 weeks ago

How AI-powered echolocation is giving small drones night vision

An ultrasound-based perception system inspired by bat echolocation enables small aerial robots to navigate in low-visibility environments.
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fromNature
3 weeks ago

Entanglement and electronic coherence in attosecond molecular photoionization - Nature

Attosecond pulses from high-harmonic generation create entangled ion-photoelectron systems, enabling observation of coherent dynamics in quantum states.
fromNature
1 month ago

A large-scale coherent 4D imaging sensor - Nature

Across various fields, from spatial mapping for reconnaissance and construction to facial recognition, virtual and augmented reality and autonomous driving, accurate 3D representation of dynamically evolving environments is paramount for safe human-machine interaction. Therefore, substantial research efforts are directed towards developing a cost-effective, high-performance and scalable 3D imaging sensor comparable with a CMOS camera.
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fromMail Online
1 month ago

Humanity receives mysterious 'mega-laser' signal from unknown source

This system is truly extraordinary. We are seeing the radio equivalent of a laser halfway across the universe. This galaxy acts as a lens, the way a water droplet on a window pane would, because its mass curves the local space-time. So we have a radio laser passing through a cosmic telescope before being detected by the powerful MeerKAT radio telescope.
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fromTechzine Global
1 month ago

First factory for InP photonic chips on 6-inch wafer scale in the Netherlands

Eindhoven is building the world's first industrial factory for indium phosphide photonic chips on 6-inch wafers, funded by €150 million from the EU Chips Act and PIXEurope consortium.
fromFuturism
1 month ago

Astronomers Spot Huge Microwave Laser Blasting Into Space

This system is truly extraordinary. We're seeing the radio equivalent of a laser halfway across the universe. Fundamentally, masers and lasers are focused beams of light in the same frequency. In the realm of astrophysics, these can arise from clouds of dust being excited into a higher energy state from the light emitted by other sources, like stars and black holes.
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fromSecurityWeek
2 months ago

NIST's Quantum Breakthrough: Single Photons Produced on a Chip

NIST has developed a chip that reliably emits a single photon on demand. This ability will improve the efficiency of QKD (quantum key distribution) as we prepare for the arrival of quantum computers. Quantum computers will upend current cryptology by using Shor's algorithm to rapidly negate the current public/private key secure encryption methods. This has largely been solved by NIST's post quantum cryptology (PQC) algorithms.
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fromNature
1 month ago

Multimodal electron microscopy of halide perovskite interfacial dynamics - Nature

Halide perovskite LEDs suffer rapid operational degradation due to ion migration and interfacial electrochemical reactions, requiring atomic-scale in situ imaging to understand degradation mechanisms and improve device stability.
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fromTheregister
2 months ago

DARPA asks labs to outsmart physics with photonic circuits

DARPA is funding efforts to scale photonic integrated circuits to perform larger-scale computing with light using existing photonic components to overcome current physical limitations.
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2 months ago

Limitations of probing field-induced response with STM

We demonstrate how the apparent magnetic field induced lattice and CDW intensity change can be explained as a consequence of two independent experimental artifacts: a reconfiguration of atoms at the STM tip apex that alters the amplitudes of CDW modulations, and piezo creep, hysteresis and thermal drift, which artificially distort STM topographs.
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