{"id":95370,"date":"2019-08-27T13:03:31","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T20:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/nanoparticles-could-someday-give-humans-built-in-night-vision"},"modified":"2019-08-27T13:03:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T20:03:31","slug":"nanoparticles-could-someday-give-humans-built-in-night-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/nanoparticles-could-someday-give-humans-built-in-night-vision","title":{"rendered":"Nanoparticles could someday give humans built-in night vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ycsk2JaLhhI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Movies featuring heroes with superpowers, such as flight, X-ray vision or extraordinary strength, are all the rage. But while these popular characters are mere flights of fancy, scientists have used nanoparticles to confer a real superpower on ordinary mice: the ability to see near-infrared light. Today, scientists report progress in making versions of these nanoparticles that could someday give built-in night vision to humans.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers will present their results at the American Chemical Society (ACS) Fall 2019 National Meeting &amp; Exposition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we look at the universe, we see only <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/visible+light\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">visible light<\/a>,\u201d says Gang Han, Ph.D., the project\u2019s principal investigator, who is presenting the work at the meeting. \u201cBut if we had near-infrared vision, we could see the universe in a whole new way. We might be able to do infrared astronomy with the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/naked+eye\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">naked eye<\/a>, or have <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/night+vision\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">night vision<\/a> without bulky equipment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Movies featuring heroes with superpowers, such as flight, X-ray vision or extraordinary strength, are all the rage. But while these popular characters are mere flights of fancy, scientists have used nanoparticles to confer a real superpower on ordinary mice: the ability to see near-infrared light. Today, scientists report progress in making versions of these nanoparticles [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-nanotechnology","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}