"Xue, if only you could see what I've seen with your eyes..."
"Cue the super-mouse. Scientists have engineered mice that can see infrared light normally invisible to mammals — including humans.
To do so, they injected into the rodents’ eyes nanoparticles that convert infrared light into visible wavelengths1.
Humans and mice, like other mammals, cannot see infrared light, which has wavelengths slightly longer than red light — between 700 nanometres and 1 millimetre.
But Tian Xue, a neuroscientist at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, and his colleagues developed nanoparticles that convert infrared wavelengths into visible light. The nanoparticles absorb photons at wavelengths of around 980 nanometres and emit them at shorter wavelengths, around 535 nanometres, corresponding to green light."
"Cue the super-mouse. Scientists have engineered mice that can see infrared light normally invisible to mammals — including humans.
To do so, they injected into the rodents’ eyes nanoparticles that convert infrared light into visible wavelengths1.
Humans and mice, like other mammals, cannot see infrared light, which has wavelengths slightly longer than red light — between 700 nanometres and 1 millimetre.
But Tian Xue, a neuroscientist at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, and his colleagues developed nanoparticles that convert infrared wavelengths into visible light. The nanoparticles absorb photons at wavelengths of around 980 nanometres and emit them at shorter wavelengths, around 535 nanometres, corresponding to green light."