Scientists are learning to engineer light in rich, multidimensional ways that dramatically increase how much information a ...

Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators have developed a new type of lidar—a laser-based remote-sensing instrument—that can observe cloud structures at the scale of a single centimeter. The ...

Monitoring forest health typically relies on remote sensing tools such as light detection and ranging (LiDAR), radar, and ...

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A new type of lidar is allowing physicists to study cloud tops at a resolution 100 to 1,000 times higher than before.

Using a tiny, spherical glass lens sandwiched between two brass plates, the 17th-century Dutch microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was the first to officially describe red blood cells and sperm cells ...

In a study published in Nature Methods on December 2, a research team led by Profs. Xu Tao and Ji Wei from the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a ...

UConn engineers develop new image sensor to achieve 3D microscopic resolution without lenses. (Envato stock image). Imaging ...

For most people, the magnifying-glass-shaped structure at Huairou Science City in Beijing is a high-end but inaccessible ...

According to the scientists, this reduction of cloud droplets near the cloud top is due to two processes: entrainment, where ...

Most of the time, you assume your brain is either “on” or “off,” awake or asleep. A new study shows something far more ...