Science news articles about 'pointers'

  • Q&A: Baltimore's pointers for science in developing nations

    David Baltimore, Nobel laureate and last year's AAAS president, tells SciDev.Net what it takes to develop good scientific institutions.
  • Chaotic Lasers Tamed

    ... . There is a laser in every CD player, lecturers point to their slides with laser pointers and surgeons carry out medical operations with laser beams. Nevertheless there are numerous unusual kinds of ...
  • New unifying theory of lasers advanced by physicists

    ... fixed direction that has a well-defined wavelength and a predictable power output — like those in laser pointers, bar-code readers, surgical instruments and CD players,” said senior author A. Douglas ...
  • Study finds new properties in non-magnetic materials

    ... second harmonic generation. Second harmonic generation is found, for example, in the crystals that are used in green laser pointers to convert infrared laser light into green laser light. The group ...
  • DNA study unlocks mystery to diverse traits in dogs

    What makes a pointer point, a sheep dog herd, and a retriever retrieve? Why do Yorkshire terriers live longer than Great Danes? And how can a tiny Chihuahua possibly be related to a Great Dane? Dogs ...
  • NIST releases preview of much-anticipated online mathematics reference

    ... . It also provides advice on methods for computing mathematical functions, as well as pointers to available software. The complete DLMF, with 31 additional chapters providing information on ...
  • Tongue Drive system lets persons with disabilities operate powered wheelchairs, computers

    ... session, the user moved his or her tongue to one of the predefined command positions and the mouse pointer started moving in the selected direction. To move the cursor faster, users could hold their ...
  • Wasps and bumble bees heat up, fly faster with protein-rich food

    ... away from the centers of their nests. She measured the temperatures of 134 foragers using a small pointer-like thermometer that aimed an infrared beam at their thoraxes while they were busy collecting ...
  • For your eyes only: Custom interfaces make computer clicking faster, easier

    ... all. A man with severe cerebral palsy used his chin to control a trackball and could move the pointer quickly but spastically. Based on his skills test, Supple generated a user interface where all ...
  • The brightest, sharpest, fastest X-ray holograms yet

    ... invention that made holography practical; it is now possible to make small holograms using just a laser pointer. FLASH is a powerful free-electron laser (FEL); a new generation of FELs of much shorter ...
  • "Going Green" When Cleaning Clothes

    Eco-friendly laundry products and methods help your health and wallet, not to mention -- the planet! Plenty magazine's green living expert, Jessica Tzerman offered pointers, on The Early Show.
  • Creating unconventional metals

    ... added: "It might be possible to see similar effects in devices made using materials and methods found in laser pointers. This would put what we've seen firmly in the realm of that which can easily be ...
  • "Going Green" When Cleaning Clothes

    Eco-friendly laundry products and methods help your health and wallet, not to mention -- the planet! Plenty magazine's green living expert, Jessica Tzerman offered pointers, on The Early Show.
  • Looking vs. seeing

    ... areas the location of behaviorally relevant visual objects by providing a 'neural pointer' to these objects," says Krauzlis. The superior colliculus is currently under renewed scrutiny because recent ...
  • Movea's Gyration Air Mouse

    ... both in the air and on the desk. Wave your Air Mouse in the air and navigate your mouse pointer on your desktop. Movea's MotionSense technology that enables it to work both in-air and on desktop by ...

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