From the Annals of the Impossible (Experimental Physics)
Another result showing a correlation of radioactive decay fluctuations with the time of year. Hmmm.
Monthly Archives: September 2012
Shedding Some Light on the Subject
I’ve had this mad idea of tracing entire rooms with one LED and now I have finally gotten started!
Now That's a Sticky Situation
Maple syrup heist baffles Quebec
Thieves in the Canadian province of Quebec may have pulled off the sweetest heist of all time, siphoning off a reservoir of maple syrup from a warehouse and cleverly covering up their caper to evade detection, an industry group said on Friday.
I am Squishing Your Lens, I am Squishing Your Lens!
Flat lens offers a perfect image
“Instead of creating phase delays as light propagates through the thickness of the material, you can create an instantaneous phase shift right at the surface of the lens. It’s extremely exciting.”
Capasso and his collaborators at SEAS create the flat lens by plating a very thin wafer of silicon with a nanometer-thin layer of gold. Next, they strip away parts of the gold layer to leave behind an array of V-shaped structures, evenly spaced in rows across the surface. When Capasso’s group shines a laser onto the flat lens, these structures act as nanoantennas that capture the incoming light and hold onto it briefly before releasing it again.