- How Fish Minimize Their Visibility To Predators In Open Waters
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... could pave the way to improvements in materials like polarization-sensitive satellites. Underwater, light vibrates in way that ... studies hint that some fish have even adapted ways to use polarization to their advantage, including developing platelets within their ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 22 2015 - 11:26am - 0 attachments
- Fish Skin Provides Invisibility In Open Ocean
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... ways: through brightness contrast, color contrast and polarization contrast. Of the three, polarization contrast is considered most effective for detection in the open ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 20 2015 - 8:51am - 0 attachments
- The Graph Of The Week: Polarization In Single Top Production
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... events large and clean enough that a measurement of the polarization of the top quark has become possible. For an elementary particle, polarization corresponds to the angle that the spin vector of the particle ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 9 2015 - 5:49am - 0 attachments
- 5 Myths About Gravitational Waves
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... the BICEP2 (Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization) telescope, last year made an extraordinary claim that they had ... in a certain direction, we say that it has a specific polarization . If gravitational waves were present at the time when the CMB ...
Article - The Conversation - Sep 6 2015 - 8:30am - 0 attachments
- Are There Evidences For Cosmic Inflation? (II)
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... promising. The BICEP2 result reporting an excess of B-mode polarization signal of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation was ... Furthermore, even assuming that significant CMB B-mode polarization has indeed been generated by the early Universe, its theoretical ...
Article - Luis Gonzalez-Mes... - Sep 3 2015 - 6:20pm - 0 attachments
- 'Magic' Sphere For Computing Using Photons
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... acquire induced electric moment; this process is called "polarization". The higher the degree of polarization is, the higher the refractive index of the material is. It turned ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 30 2015 - 1:30pm - 0 attachments
- Seeing Jupiter In Daylight
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... angle of 90 degrees, which is the region of sky where polarization makes the sky less bright. But even under those "best" conditions, ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 21 2015 - 4:07pm - 0 attachments
- Fox News Or MSNBC May Be Biological, Say Evolutionary Psychologists
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... the better. Reducing racial discrimination or political polarization will be no easier or harder than changing patterns of cooperation. ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 5 2015 - 7:17am - 0 attachments
- Lightwave amplification by a stimulated emission of radiation
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... a mirror or other reflector, reflected waves have higher polarization than the source terms to the reflection. There is even a ... are polarized meaning they only pass light of a particular polarization angle. Because LED watches only generate polarized light, if ...
Blog Post - Robert Hayes - May 7 2015 - 7:42pm - 0 attachments
- Generating Broadband Terahertz Radiation From A Microplasma In Air
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... explains that he has always been interested in the polarization of light and how it can be exploited for different uses. He was interested in certain polarization states that exist for a beam of light: azimuthal or radial ...
Article - News Staff - May 2 2015 - 10:30am - 0 attachments
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