News tagged with laser scanning

New way to produce antimatter-containing atom discovered

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at the University of California, Riverside report that they have discovered a new way to create positronium, an exotic and short-lived atom that could help answer what happened ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 11, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (19) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

Use a laser, save a tree

(PhysOrg.com) -- Laser un-printers that can remove toner from scrap paper so that it can be used again may be coming to an office near you in the future, results from a new Cambridge study show.

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

3-D digital dinosaur track download: A roadmap for saving at-risk natural history resources

Portable laser scanning technology allows researchers to tote their latest fossil discovery from the field to the lab in the form of lightweight digital data stored on a laptop. But sharing that data as a ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Feb 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers find cells move in mysterious ways (w/ Video)

Our cells are more like us than we may think. They're sensitive to their environment, poking and prodding deliberately at their surroundings with hand-like feelers and chemical signals as they decide whether ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Nano Measurement in the 3rd Dimension

From the motion sensor to the computer chip - in many products of daily life components are used whose functioning is based on smallest structures of the size of thousandths - or even millionths - of millimetres. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 06, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0