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Thermal cameras have an advantage over conventional night-vision scopes, which show greenish images and are widely used by the military, whereas, the conventional scopes simply intensify the available visible light. The Thermal-Eye 250D camera is a polyelectric detector that focuses on infrared rays on barium strontium titanate (BST), a ceramic-like material that acts like a capacitor.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2005
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Fiasco at Fermilab
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The article discusses adverse effects of the last-minute reductions in the finance that was to be allocated to the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory for future researches. The budget cuts have mainly affected the development of two major projects, namely the International Linear Collider and NOvA.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2008
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A touch of poison
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The Environmental Protection Agency is planning on revising its standards on levels of arsenic concentrations permitted in food and water, alerting many scientists whose research show arsenic-tainted water to cause skin, lung, liver and bladder cancers.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2001
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