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The UCLA team describes a new kind of polymer solar cell (PSC) that produces energy by absorbing mainly infrared light, not visible light, making the cells nearly 70% transparent to the human eye.
ENGADGET: UCLA creates transparent solar cell, dreams of current generating windows
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The telescope gathers and focuses electromagnetic radiation (usually, but not always, visible light) to make far-off objects seem brighter and closer.
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Although it did not yet work with visible wavelengths of light, Mr Hunt said it could lead to a range of cheap, small, portable sensors that could find a role in many different fields.
BBC: Lens-less camera emerges from metamaterials work
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If the light were not infrared but were instead in the visible spectrum, there was enough of it that the naked eye could have seen a glow, according to Phaedon Avouris , manager of nanometer scale science and technology at IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) Research Laboratories in Yorktown Heights, N.
FORBES: IBM Makes Molecule-Sized Light
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While red dwarfs are the most common type of star in the Milky Way galaxy, they often do not show up in astronomical surveys because they are too dim in visible light.
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