When the summer sun blazes on a hot city street, our first reaction is to flee to a shady spot protected by a building or tree.
Environment
Jun 24, 2021
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Sunlight traveling through the atmosphere becomes polarized in different ways as it is scattered by water vapor, ice, aerosols created by living organisms, dust, and other particulates.
Space Exploration
Jun 10, 2021
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A nanophotonics-based LiDAR technology developed by a POSTECH research team was presented as an invited paper in Nature Nanotechnology, the leading academic journal in the field of nanoscience and nanoengineering.
Nanophysics
May 17, 2021
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Researchers have developed the first LiDAR-based augmented reality head-up display for use in vehicles. Tests on a prototype version of the technology suggest that it could improve road safety by 'seeing through' objects ...
Optics & Photonics
Apr 26, 2021
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A research team led by Professor Pan Jianwei and Professor Xu Feihu from University of Science and Technology of China achieved single-photon 3D imaging over 200 km using high-efficiency optical devices and a new noise-suppression ...
Optics & Photonics
Apr 5, 2021
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What might look like a dangling hamster ball is actually a robotic sphere to explore the depths of lunar caves.
Planetary Sciences
Mar 24, 2021
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In tropical oceans, a combination of sunlight and weak winds drives up surface temperatures in the afternoon, increasing atmospheric turbulence, unprecedented new observational data collected by an Oregon State University ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 1, 2021
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Researchers in Southampton and San Francisco have developed the first compact 3-D LiDAR imaging system that can match and exceed the performance and accuracy of most advanced, mechanical systems currently used.
Optics & Photonics
Feb 10, 2021
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Recently, a team of researchers led by WANG Zhenzhu from the Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (AIOFM) of the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS), together with their international collaborator from the ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 8, 2021
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Two images of the same front steps: one taken with a camera and the other with a flash imaging LiDAR, the laser equivalent of radar, under development for future space missions.
Optics & Photonics
Jan 26, 2021
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