A recent research has shown that a micro-ear can soon help us listen to hidden world voices. It’s reported that it’s to hearing the way microscope is to visibility. Now the scientists can keep a check on small events with much accuracy.
Initially they will use it to snoop on cells as they go about their daily business.
A team from three top UK institutions, including the Universities of Glasgow and Oxford as well as the National Institute of Medical Research at Mill Hill.
The device is based upon modifying an established technology that uses laser light to create so-called optical tweezers. These are already used to accurately measure very tiny forces.
Professor Jon Cooper from the University of Glasgow, who is heading the micro-ear project, informed that the optical tweezers can measure or manipulate at
Piconewton forces. Also the team is using the concept of many beams arranged in a ring that will be able to surround and “listen to” an object of interest.