Moldy tomatoes and mating beetles are just a couple of things revealed in detail by the Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition. The science-focused photography contest applies a microscope to much of what goes on under our noses everyday and the results are nothing but spectacular.
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To get a better look at the molecular scale we need a “camera” that’s several kilometers long, and one such facility is firing up this month. The European X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL), which happens to be the largest x-ray laser in the world, can take 3,000 images per second of that tiny world.
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Three years ago, scientists used Wi-Fi-equipped ground-based robots to obtain 2D images of objects hidden behind brick walls. Now, using aerial drones, they've obtained 3D images of similarly-hidden objects.
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Researchers from NEC and the Tokyo Institute of Technology have used Artificial Intelligence to automatically combine visible and non-visible images, dramatically improving image clarity and visibility under severe conditions.
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We think of Wi-Fi as bathing us in a comfy, invisible blanket of data and internet access, but just as a blanket can take on the shapes of the bodies it covers, the microwave radiation sent out from a hotspot can be used to generate a three-dimensional image of the surrounding environment.
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When it comes to eye exams, nobody likes getting the pupil-dilating eye drops. Thanks to a compact new camera being developed at the University of Illinois and Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts Eye & Ear, however, those drops may become a thing of the past.
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Eagles are known for their sharp vision, but that really applies to the middle of their visual field. This means that while things in the periphery of their vision are of average clarity, the subject that they're watching is in sharp focus. Scientists have now applied that same concept to a camera.
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The SmartUV is a ultraviolet-imaging camera that can be plugged into a smartphone, allowing users to see beneath the surface of their skin.
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Scientists from the University of Rochester Medical Center have devised a non-invasive system of imaging retinal cells, and it could ultimately be used to catch conditions such as glaucoma before they lead to blindness.
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Hyperspectral cameras allow people to "see the invisible." Unfortunately they also tend to be big and expensive, although researchers are working on making them smaller and cheaper. To that end, Finnish scientists recently succeeded in converting an iPhone camera into one.
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