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Two leading professors have been conducting fascinating research into how to shrink a camera down to the size of a grain of ...

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DURHAM, N.C. — Researchers from Duke University and the University of Cambridge think there is a way to determine whether some black holes are not actually black. Finding such an unmasked form of what ...

Researchers have developed a new technique for recording three-dimensional movies using a single pixel. Kobe University in Japan has developed this new camera setup, which could advance imaging and ...