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  Dr Shigeru Watanabe at Keio University is an unique scientist in that he believes that birds and mice have an ability to distinguish fine art. He has published that sparrows and pigeons have the ability to distinguish one form of painting from the other. This might be a basic pattern recognition by the animals…

Andreas Velten at MIT has been working in the lab of Ramesh Raskar to develop a camera that captures almost at the speed of light. This work was inspired by the bullet through the apple pictures by Doc Edgerton also at MIT. Their work is fascinating to see on Andreas website but it is hard…

David Brady of Duke University published a paper in Nature in 2012 (Brady DJ, Nature 486, 386) on 50 Gigapixel camera. The technology was interesting in that it used small camera’s that were coupled through a big lens. This may be a good strategy to make large cameras rather than depend on major lenses and…

Luminescent phosphors have been used in biology and imaging for many applications. Interestingly, there is another application that has not been publicized as much. Scientists from Malaysia, Moldova and Russia have made unique persistent phosphors that last for many days and hours in tough environment below the ocean. These are originally made nearly 16 years…

Dr Singamaneni’s from the University of Washington in St. Louis has created interesting and bright reporter molecules that could function as next generation probes for Biomarkers. Typically, the probes used are fluorescent or heavy metal but rarely have used Raman scattering for for pre-clinical assay work. The phenomenon is very interesting since it uses Surface…