In 2016, an airborne laser survey stripped away the dense jungle canopy of northern Guatemala and exposed more than 61,000 ...

How do you measure the inside of a cave? You could do a bunch of hard work with classic surveying gear… or you could just use a laser scanner. [9nl] did the latter, with a scanning rig of ...

Expert sommeliers can take a whiff of a glass of wine and tell you a lot about what's in your pinot noir or cabernet sauvignon. A team of physicists at CU Boulder and the National Institute of ...

Blu-rays never quite managed to usurp DVDs entirely. Recent estimates, based on data gathered by Nielsen VideoScan and MediaPlayNews, suggest that as of Q2 2022, DVDs still controlled 51.4 percent of ...

Scanlab, a manufacturer of high-end scan heads, and sister companies Blackbird Robotersysteme and Holo/Or are developing new system concepts for industrial laser applications - such as laser welding ...

Although laser scanning microscopy is a pivotal imaging tool in biomedical research, optical scattering from tissue limits the depth of the imaging. To overcome this limitation, we propose a scheme ...

Laser-driven thermoviscous flows provide contact-free rotation, transport or stabilization of delicate samples such as ...

Before the tragedy seen all around the world, flames leaping from the top of Notre-Dame Cathedral, there was a smaller one, thousands of miles away in upstate New York. Andrew Tallon, a pioneering ...

In mining safety and other fields, similar material simulation is the main research method to study the movement and deformation of rock formation and ground surface. However, the inaccurate ...

As the donations pour in to aid the reconstruction efforts of the fire-damaged Notre Dame cathedral in Paris and the French government opens the question of whether to rebuild the 850-year-old ...

As manufacturers worldwide face mounting pressure to increase throughput, reduce downtime and build more flexible production ...