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Invisible Flash Takes Night Photos Without the Burst of (Visible) Light

A IR/UV flash photo combines with its flash-free twin to produce a realistic final image Dilip Krishnan, Rob Fergus Finally: a flash camera without all the usual problems. By using a flashbulb that...

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CamelBak All Clear UV Microbiological Water Purifier

CamelBak All Clear UV Microbiological Water Purifier Courtesy Camelbak Cleaning water using ultraviolet light removes 99.99 percent of viruses, protozoa and other microscopic beasties you'd rather not...

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First-Ever Photochromic Contact Lenses May Replace Sunglasses

Photochromic Contact Lenses Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, via MITI wear glasses, but don't own contact lenses. And while this normally doesn't make a difference, staring into the...

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Scientists Stun Nematode Worms With UV Phaser Straight Out Of Star Trek

This Probably Violates The Prime Directive Man, it really looks like Kirk's standards have dropped. Star Trek introduced the world to a wide range of fictional technology, most of which, like beaming...

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Water Purification Chemical Uses Visible, Not UV, Light To Kill Bacteria

The World Health Organization estimates that around one sixth of the world lacks access to clean drinking water. Since those billion people are also the poorest people in the world, water purification...

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New Evidence That Life On Earth Was Forged in Outer Space

Perseid Meteor Wikipedia Two new studies published in the past week lend more weight to the theory that life, or at least its constituent parts, came from outer space. One bolsters the theory that...

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Glow-In-The-Dark Paths Could Be The Future Of Street Lighting

STARPATH Phil Mynott via PR NewswireEvening visitors to Christ's Pieces park in Cambridge, England are basking in the glow of a whole new type of street light. Starpath, a new type of resurfacing...

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Invisible Flash Takes Night Photos Without the Burst of (Visible) Light

Finally: a flash camera without all the usual problems. By using a flashbulb that emits ultraviolet and infrared light (neither of which the human eye can detect) instead of…

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First-Ever Photochromic Contact Lenses May Replace Sunglasses

I wear glasses, but don't own contact lenses. And while this normally doesn't make a difference, staring into the midday sun often leads me to think about switching to…

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Scientists Stun Nematode Worms With UV Phaser Straight Out Of Star Trek

Star Trek introduced the world to a wide range of fictional technology, most of which, like beaming or warp drive, will likely remain fiction. However, a team of scientists from the University of...

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Water Purification Chemical Uses Visible, Not UV, Light To Kill Bacteria

The World Health Organization estimates that around one sixth of the world lacks access to clean drinking water. Since those billion people are also the poorest people in the…

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New Evidence That Life On Earth Was Forged in Outer Space

Two new studies published in the past week lend more weight to the theory that life, or at least its constituent parts, came from outer space. One bolsters the theory that …

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Glow-In-The-Dark Paths Could Be The Future Of Street Lighting

Evening visitors to Christ's Pieces park in Cambridge, England are basking in the glow of a whole new type of street light. Starpath, a new type of resurfacing material…

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A Look At The Sun Beneath The Corona

Human eyes can't (or at least shouldn't) look directly at the sun, but NASA's IRIS can. The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph mission is the latest to fly into space to…

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