imaging
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Scientists Just Invented a Video Camera That Lets You See How Animals See Colour
Scientists say they’ve invented a piece of technology that will let us peer through an animal’s eyes better than ever before. The tech uses a combination of novel hardware and software to produce images and videos that accurately represent the colours seen by animals, such as bees and birds. In new research this week, the…
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Fast 9 in 4DX Is a Bit Much
4DX — the gimmicky theatre experience designed to immerse you in the bangs, pops, flashes, and splashes of the cinema — is a format I reserve for a very particular kind of film. By all appearances, F9, the ninth movie in the Fast and the Furious franchise, should’ve been the platonic ideal of a 4DX…
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How Historians Can Now See Invisible Text On Ancient Manuscripts
Historical documents considered lost to the ravages of time, like crumbling parchment thousands of years old or medieval manuscripts whose ink long ago faded away, are being given a new life thanks to a technology known as multispectral imaging. The sophisticated tech requires specialised training and expensive equipment, but researchers have recently been trying to…
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Transparent, Glow-In-The-Dark Mice Are A Scientist’s Dream Come True
Generally, if scientists want to see how a living thing functions in high resolution, they need to slice it into tiny pieces first. Now, there’s a powerful and bizarre new tool in researchers’ arsenals. Warning: Graphic.