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🗓️ 7 October 2014
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0:00.0 | Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in. |
0:05.8 | Researchers at Yachtolt have been delving into the secrets of probiotics for 90 years. |
0:11.0 | Yacold also partners with nature portfolio to advance gut microbiome science through the global grants for gut health, an investigator-led research program. |
0:19.6 | To learn more about Yachtolt, visit yawcult.co.j.p. |
0:23.9 | That's y-A-K-U-L-T dot-C-O-J-P. |
0:28.4 | When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on Yacolt. |
0:33.5 | This is Scientific Americans' 60-second science. |
0:37.2 | I'm Steve Merski. |
0:38.6 | This year's prize is about light. |
0:42.1 | Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences permanent secretary, Stefan Normark. |
0:46.7 | The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2014 Nobel Prize in physics to Professor Isamo, Akasak at May University in |
0:57.0 | Nagoya and Nagoya University, Japan, Professor Hiroshi Amano at Nagoya University, |
1:04.0 | Japan, and Professor Judi Nakamura at University of California, Santa Barbara for the invention of efficient blue light |
1:13.1 | emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources. |
1:19.6 | Professor Betel-Sing will now give us a short summary. |
1:24.6 | Red and green LEDs have been around for many years, but the blue was really missing. |
1:30.3 | This lamp contains three LEDs, one red, one green, and one blue. |
1:38.3 | If you combine these colors, you get white light. |
1:43.3 | This is something that Isaac Newton showed already |
1:47.8 | in 1671. Thanks to the blue LED, we can now get white light sources which have very high energy |
1:55.5 | efficiency and very long lifetime. This LED technology is now replacing older technologies. In fact, |
2:03.6 | many of you carry this technology in your pocket. The flashlight and also the screen |
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