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  • Generating terahertz radiation from water makes 'the impossible, possible'

    09/29/2017 9:29:56 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 13 replies
    phys.org ^ | 09-28-2017 | Provided by: University of Rochester
    Xi-Cheng Zhang has worked for nearly a decade to solve a scientific puzzle that many in the research community believed to be impossible: producing terahertz waves—a form of electromagnetic radiation in the far infrared frequency range—from liquid water. Now, as reported in a paper published in Applied Physics Letters, researchers at the University of Rochester have "made the impossible, possible," says Zhang, the M. Parker Givens Professor of Optics. "Figuring out how to generate terahertz waves from liquid water is a fundamental breakthrough because water is such an important element in the human body and on Earth." Terahertz waves have...
  • Terahertz/Submillimeter Activity Radiation (TSA-Rays) will "melt" your DNA, physicists find.

    11/16/2010 9:53:42 AM PST · by sturmde · 52 replies · 1+ views
    How Terahertz Waves Tear Apart DNAA new model of the way the THz waves interact with DNA explains how the damage is done and why evidence has been so hard to gather. Great things are expected of terahertz waves, the radiation that fills the slot in the electromagnetic spectrum between microwaves and the infrared. Terahertz waves pass through non-conducting materials such as clothes , paper, wood and brick and so cameras sensitive to them can peer inside envelopes, into living rooms and "frisk" people at distance. The way terahertz waves are absorbed and emitted can also be used to determine...
  • 'Naked' scanners at US airports may be dangerous: scientists

    11/15/2010 12:21:52 PM PST · by george76 · 66 replies · 3+ views
    AFP ^ | November 12th, 2010
    Some US scientists warned Friday that the full-body, graphic-image X-ray scanners now being used to screen passengers and airline crews at airports around the country may be unsafe. "They say the risk is minimal, but statistically someone is going to get skin cancer from these X-rays," Dr Michael Love, who runs an X-ray lab at the department of biophysics and biophysical chemistry at Johns Hopkins University school of medicine, told AFP. "No exposure to X-ray is considered beneficial. We know X-rays are hazardous but we have a situation at the airports where people are so eager to fly that they...
  • New Device Will Sense Through Concrete Walls

    01/03/2006 4:23:08 PM PST · by SandRat · 113 replies · 1,887+ views
    American Forces Press Service ^ | Jan 3, 2005 | Donna Miles
    WASHINGTON, Jan. 3, 2006 – Troops conducting urban operations soon will have the capabilities of superheroes, being able to sense through 12 inches of concrete to determine if someone is inside a building. The new "Radar Scope" will give warfighters searching a building the ability to tell within seconds if someone is in the next room, Edward Baranoski from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Special Projects Office, told the American Forces Press Service. By simply holding the portable, handheld device up to a wall, users will be able to detect movements as small as breathing, he said. The Radar...