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submitted 1 year ago by Odusei@lemmy.world to c/science@lemmy.world

Superconductor-based cameras that can detect a single photon—the smallest smidgeon of light—have existed for 20 years, but they’ve remained confined to laboratories due to the inability to scale them past a few pixels. Now, a team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, Colo., has created a 0.4-megapixel single-photon camera—400 times as large as the previous biggest camera of its type.

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[-] FUBAR@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Tbh I thought it was an insult at first

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