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 ...

In a new breakthrough, a team of physicists from the U.S. has successfully demonstrated a new way to detect radioactive materials using carbon-dioxide lasers — from a distance. The potential ...

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala.(Aug. 2, 2021) - From archaeology sites to self-driving cars to the testing labs at the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Aviation & Missile Center, LiDAR is ...

In December 2023, the Army awarded a five-year, $136 million follow-on contract to Danbury Mission Technologies to deliver, test and install AN/VVR-4 laser detecting systems on military ground ...

Cancer diagnoses traditionally require invasive or labor-intensive procedures such as tissue biopsies. Researchers at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) have now reported on a method ...

Aircraft manufacturers, designers, and operators face many measurement and test challenges. New, large-capacity civil airframes which make better use of composite materials are being developed and ...

A team from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has developed a non-invasive tool which not only detects circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in the bloodstream, but can blast them away ...

Princeton University engineers have developed a new laser sensing technology that is expected to enable the remote distant detection of explosives, airborne pollutants and greenhouse gasses. The ...