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A Telescope for Your Eye: New Contact Lens Design May Improve Sight of Patients with Macular ...
2013-06-27 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
As reported via their paper "Switchable telescopic contact lens" in OSA's open-access journal Optics Express, team of DARPA-funded researchers from USA and Switzerland, led by University of California San Diego Professor Joseph Ford, have created slim, telescopic contact lens that can switch between normal and magnified vision. With refinements, this system could offer age-related macular degeneration (AMD) patients way to enhance their vision. This story is related to the following:Trade Associations
Use-it-yourself orbiting space telescope in the works
2013-05-29 19:33:29| CNET News.com
Asteroid mining company Planetary Resources has launched a $1 million Kickstarter campaign to raise money to put a publicly-accessible telescope into space, and fund educational research. [Read more]
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NASA's Kepler telescope crippled by technical failures
2013-05-16 18:24:11| CNET News.com
Kepler's mission to find strange new worlds may be at an end after serious technical failures afflict NASA's famous space telescope. [Read more]
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NASA's Fermi telescope dodges a 3,100-pound bullet
2013-05-02 17:52:46| CNET News.com
Evasive actions had to be taken to ensure the spacecraft wouldn't end in a massive collision high above Earth. [Read more]
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NASA's Kepler telescope and the quest for life out there
2013-04-28 17:45:28| CNET News.com
The question "Is anybody out there?" grows more tantalizing with the discovery of each new far-off planet. CBS Sunday Morning talks to scientists searching for clues. [Read more]
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