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Come see us at the Waco Cultural Arts Fest this Saturday! We will be in the Waco Convention Center. #ScienceFest #LasersandOptics #PhotonicsEducation
The festival begins a week from today! Come see us at Indian Spring Park and the Waco Convention Center for ArtFest, MusicFest, WordFest,ScienceFest, FilmFest - Celebration Africa, and {254}Dance-Fest...
Laser Scans Unveil a Network of Ancient Cities in Cambodia t.co/ITGcqZyVwE
Laser Scans Unveil a Network of Ancient Cities in Cambodia
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Beyond the famed Angkor Wat temple, a technology known as lidar is allowing archaeologists to map and find the ancient Khmer empire’s intricate urban landscape.
Did you know? NASCAR use laser beam platforms to inspect cars before they can hit the track. #coolLasers t.co/HdESXjvmqM
How NASCAR Technical Inspection Works
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About.com NASCAR takes you inside the laser-technical inspection process that occurs each week for all three of the top national touring divisions.
Laser made from human blood could help find tumours: Innovative tool can reveal changes in cells. t.co/0KM4xb8UA5 #Photonics
Laser made from human BLOOD could help find tumours
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Researchers at the University of Michigan have been mixing using blood with the medical dye Indocyanine green (ICG) to boost laser signals, showing changes at the molecular level.
Watching a laser machine gun clean rusty metal is a perfect midweek meditation. #LaserAblation #Photonics t.co/AGMZsy2pqg via @verge
Watching a laser machine gun clean rusty metal is a perfect midweek meditation
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The internet is full of tips on how to make cleaning fun, but I want more. I want an invention that would make the task nothing but pure joy: house-cleaning lasers. All of the mesmerizing visual...
Laser made from human blood could help hunt down tumours t.co/1uAbL6AkV7
Laser made from human blood could help hunt down tumours
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A special dye used in medical imaging cannot emit laser light by itself, but it will if it binds to proteins found in blood
Something you may not know: The U.S. Military Shot Down a Drone With a Laser—in 1973 t.co/OtjyVlnra1 #LaserHistory #Photonics
The U.S. Military Shot Down a Drone With a Laser—in 1973
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The incident was likely the first use of a laser as a weapon.
New 'Star Wars'-Like Laser Scarecrow Fights Geese Off Of Crops via @forbes t.co/LWVh6X3Ctx #CoolScience #Lasers #Photonics
New 'Star Wars'-Like Laser Scarecrow Fights Geese Off Of Crops
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Think the new 'Star Wars: Rogue One' trailer is cool? Well back here on Earth, farmers are using real-life lasers to battle a perennial pest: geese.
Discovery of 'another Earth' revs plan for fly-by of laser-propelled spacecraft. #outofthisworldLasers t.co/fsbln6xhFt via @CNET
Discovery of 'another Earth' revs plan for fly-by of laser-propelled spacecraft
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Breakthrough Starshot, the Stephen Hawking and Mark Zuckerberg-backed plan to send spacecraft to our stellar neighbors, has a new target, and it wants you to have the chance to glimpse it up close.
Off-Grid LED Lighting: Job Creator t.co/d4qkF5cCL8 via @OPNMagazine
Off-Grid LED Lighting: Job Creator | Optics & Photonics News
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Industry News Off-Grid LED Lighting: Job Creator Stewart Wills Focus group with rural Kenyans on solar-LED lanterns, from a 2009 Berkeley Lab study. [Image: Evan Mills/Berkeley Lab] Developing countri...
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The National Center for Optics and Photonics Education, OP-TEC, is a consortium of two-year colleges, high schools, universities, national laboratories, industry partners, and professional societies funded by the National Science Foundation’s Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program. The participating entities of OP-TEC have joined forces to create secondary-to-postsecondary as well as returning adult “pipelines” of highly qualified and strongly motivated students and to empower two-year colleges to prepare technicians in optics and photonics.
Headquartered in Waco, Texas, OP-TEC serves secondary STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) programs and postsecondary programs devoted to lasers, optics, and photonics technology or technologies enabled by lasers, optics and photonics. In addition, OP-TEC provides curriculum, instructional materials, workforce needs assessments, faculty development, student recruitment strategies/tools, and support for institutional reform. OP-TEC serves as a national clearinghouse for photonics teaching materials; encourages more schools and colleges to offer programs, courses, and career information; and helps high school teachers and community/technical college faculty members develop programs and labs to teach lasers, optics, and photonics technology.
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