Scientific laboratories at night
Seed Magazine posted an interesting photo series documenting scientific laboratories after dark. Describing the top photo above -
Much of the fundamental knowledge that underpins our search for extraterrestrial life and supports our understanding of our solar system's history and evolution emerges from this small room in Theodor Kostiuk's laboratory. On the rightmost table, infrared light from a powerful carbon dioxide laser excites various molecules to reveal their spectroscopic signatures. This and other lasers in the lab often operate overnight to increase the precision of their measurements.- Labs At Night [via Music Thing] Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Science | Digg this!
Written by Collin Cunningham. Read more great feeds at is source WEBSITE
More Gadgets articles
ScienceBookmark this article
- [+] Digg: Feature this article
- [+] Del.icio.us: Bookmark this article
- [+] Furl: Bookmark this article
Related articles
- A simple Marx Generator
(August 29th, 2008) - Mythbusters Adam on education issues
(August 29th, 2008) - Zoom into steel (to the atomic level!)
(August 29th, 2008) - Brainloop allows you to mentally navigate Google earth
(August 29th, 2008) - Diet Coke and Mentos… In Zero Gravity… only on MAKE!
(August 29th, 2008)
