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... contains a varying electric field. When we talk about Polarization of this field, we refer to its direction. A new satellite named ... (GEMS),  will be the first to systematically measure the polarization of cosmic X-ray sources. It is a new astrophysics mission led by ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 5 2009 - 1:18pm - 0 attachments

... a prototype NIST detector that will be used to seek B-mode polarization, the signature of the rapid inflation of the universe after the ... The antennas separate the radiation into two different polarization directions at a frequency of 145 gigahertz. (All light has two ...

Article - News Staff - May 3 2009 - 11:46am - 0 attachments

... of oscillation of the emitted radiation, known as polarization, can be designed and controlled at will. The innovation opens the ... the April 13 issue of Applied Physics Letters . "Polarization is one of the key features defining a laser beam. Controlling it ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 13 2009 - 12:14am - 0 attachments

... observe. Switching of some physical properties such as polarization or magnetization currently is used in computer memory and writing ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 8 2009 - 9:22pm - 0 attachments

... By de-emphasizing outgroup comparison, the polarization of characters is compromised, whereby primary characteristics are ...

Blog Post - Henry Loconte - Mar 18 2009 - 6:57pm - 0 attachments

Time to put New York Times’ columnist Stanley Fish in his place, again. Fish is a rather interesting kind of animal: an academic through and through (he is, after all a professor of law at Florida International University and dean emeritus of the Colleg ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Feb 17 2009 - 11:35am - 0 attachments

... theory.  Although Huygens’ theory could account for polarization, Newton’s theory won the day, or rather the century, and it was ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Feb 5 2009 - 8:08pm - 0 attachments

Conservatives "cling to their guns and god" and Liberals cling to their "good will" and government The further a culture moves from its religion the closer it moves to its government. Humans have a need for the illusion of empowerment and a grand scheme ...

Blog Post - Delian Valeriani - Jan 23 2009 - 5:11pm - 0 attachments

... back into light. Even at a distance of 1000 km, the slight polarization of water molecules would tear apart any Earth organism. So where ...

Article - Chris Rollins - Jan 16 2009 - 12:51pm - 0 attachments

... at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute say their new polarization-matched type of light emitting diode (LED)  has significantly ... the region contained materials with mismatched polarization . The polarization mismatch likely causes electron leakage, and therefore a loss of ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 13 2009 - 2:10pm - 0 attachments