Contact lens technology is reaching the point where science fiction meets reality. 5 hours ago Mojo Vision s smart contact lens delivers an augmented reality display in a user s field of vision. | Mojo Vision / AFP
Contact lenses are the result of an accidental discovery made during the Second World War. Ophthalmologist Harold Ridley noticed that despite acrylic plastic shrapnel shards becoming embedded in the eyes of fighter pilots, it did not appear to cause any harm. This finding eventually led to the creation of hard intraocular lenses for the treatment of cataracts.
Over the years, new scientific discoveries have led to softer and more comfortable contact lenses. And now, research bringing together chemistry, biology and microelectronics is resulting in contact lenses that are straight out of science fiction.
[OPINION] Beneath the waters of Subic Bay an old pyroclastic-flow deposit, and many faults
Apr 22, 2021 10:00 AM PHT
Kelvin S. Rodolfo
The following is the fourth in a series of excerpts from Kelvin Rodolfo s ongoing book project Tilting at the Monster of Morong: Forays Against the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant and Global Nuclear Energy.
My research path has taken some strange karmic turns. It led our
tropa of Phivolcs geologists to study the small lahars of Mt. Mayon in the 1980s, almost as if we were being prepared for our life-saving work in the 1990s on the catastrophic lahars of Pinatubo. Afterwards, it involved my colleague Fernando Siringan, his students, and me in geological research to either side of Mt. Natib, first in Subic Bay to the west, then in the coastal plains of Pampanga and Bulacan east of Natib.
It will take between $30 million and $50 million to clean up the damage caused by the uncontrolled collapse of the Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico, according to a new report from the National Science Foundation.Why it matters: The telescope — which collapsed in December 2020 — was key to many scientific discoveries, including the search for life and other planets in the universe, during its decades of use.Get market news worthy of your time with Axios Markets. Subscribe for free.Details: The new report details the damage caused by the telescope's collapse.The science platform and the Gregorian dome are a "complete loss for scientific purposes," and the observatory's Learning Center sustained "significant damage" to its roof, with other structures also damaged, according to the report.Officials are still working to figure out exactly what brought the telescope down, and the engineering firms that are conducting the evaluation are expected to
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