Brown dwarfs are sometimes called failed stars. They’re stars’ dim, low-mass siblings and they fade in brightness over time. They’re fascinating to astronomers for a variety of reasons, but much about ...

Precisely measuring the fracture properties of a soft hydrogel. Coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulation of a polymer network strained to failure. The solvent is not shown, and the polymer strands ...

Scientists from ITMO University created a high-speed video capillaroscopy system that enables direct measurement of red blood cell velocity. Coupled with sophisticated software, the system can raise ...

A research team led by Tomoro Sashida and Tomoharu Oka (Keio University) has succeeded in precisely measuring the expansion velocity of a shockwave of the supernova remnant W44. The remnant is located ...

Optical Surfaces Ltd. has delivered a 235mm clear aperture beam collimator to precisely measure the quality of their Imaging systems from the visible to the IR using MTF criteria. Optical Surfaces Ltd ...