{"id":21083,"date":"2019-09-09T13:50:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T13:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=21083"},"modified":"2019-09-09T13:50:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T13:50:54","slug":"universities-light-waves-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/universities-light-waves-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Universities uncover light waves applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thanks to the research of nineteenth-century physicist <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Clerk_Maxwell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Clerk Maxwell<\/a>, researchers from the University of Edinburgh and Pennsylvania State University have made it possible to manipulate crystals in such a way as to produce a whole new type of light wave.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nLight waves applications have been known to humanity for many years now, but as it turns out, scientists still have a lot to discover about this physics phenomenon.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Light waves applications<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Light waves are an integral part of our daily lives, even if we don\u2019t really register that. <\/span><b>According to the research team, the newly discovered light wave, called Dyakonov-Voigt waves, can be used in a number of different scenarios.\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<b>The span of Dyakonov-Voigt light waves applications is yet to be determined, but there are already suggestions on how the discovery can revolutionize medical processes and connectivity technology.<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the primary uses of the new Dyakonov-Voigt waves could be the improvement of biosensors used to monitor and analyze blood samples.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another important use of the new light waves could be employed in fiber optics technology, which can become even faster and more convenient.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scientific research\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>One of the main goals of university science departments is to complete complex research, to reveal some of Earth\u2019s remaining secrets.\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scientific advancement and analysis is the most reliable method for understanding our environment, history, and evolution. <b>University research is an essential aspect of scientific developments worldwide.<\/b> Recent examples of impressive discoveries made by scientific teams include the improvement of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/eth-zurich-multiple-genes-crispr-method\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CRISPR gene editing<\/a> method by a team at Swiss university ETH Zurich. Another significant scientific development came with the discovery of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/physicists-reveal-the-newest-state-of-matter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">newest state of matter<\/a>, by a team at New York University.<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Considering this, it is essential that universities give science departments enough funding to be able to complete their research projects. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Not only that but universities can apply and receive international help, like Israel, where recently, a large <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/israel-higher-education-science\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">financial aid grant<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was awarded by the United States, in order to boost scientific research and development.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the research of nineteenth-century physicist James Clerk Maxwell, researchers from the University of Edinburgh and Pennsylvania State University have made it possible to manipulate crystals in such a way as to produce a whole new type of light wave.\u00a0 Light waves applications have been known to humanity for many years now, but as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":21088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}