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Tag Archives: scientific instruments
New telescope technologies, new visions
Looking at the sky with telescopes sitting on the Earth is like looking through a somewhat primitive and dirty window. That hasn’t stopped astronomers from wanting and sometimes getting bigger and better optical telescopes. Even a somewhat distorted window on the universe is far better than human eyesight. Then along came rockets and eventually it [...]
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Hubble on the bubble
What do you call it when the best of what you’ve got now really makes you want the better thing that’s coming? Technological progress. This seem to be the case with the Hubble Space Telescope, which after its latest retrofitting is beginning to produce new and better results. Just now the various Hubble teams are [...]
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Atomic motion pictures
Often advances in science go hand-in-hand with advances in scientific instrumentation. The ability to capture atoms in motion, that is, images at the atomic level over a period of time, is a major advancement. The achievement required combining the power of a conventional three-dimensional electron microscope with the ability to capture the images in an [...]
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The absolutely coolest thermometer
There’s nothing colder than absolute zero. In various scales that’s (in degrees): 0 Kelvin, -273.15 Celsius, -459.57 Fahrenheit. It’s so cold that the rest of the universe would have to reach that temperature to attain it, which is called absolute entropy, or the death of everything. So it’s not even theoretically possible to reach absolute [...]
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New telescope finds planet near Sun-like star
The search for planets other than those in our own solar system (exoplanets) has been going on since the early 1990’s. Most of the searches and discovery of planets have been done by indirect means, for example, catching the shadow of a planet as it transits the local star, or detecting the perturbation in the [...]
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Milestone mobile brain microscope
Better tools, better science: Being able to monitor the brain cells of an animal while it freely moves around and interacts with its environment, now that’s doing science the right way. No more tying the subject down inside a massive device and showing it pictures of changing scenery while scanning its brain. Well, actually there [...]
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