A 3-D laser measurement and imaging technology used for years in fossil and nuclear plants could be an effective means to assess the ability of emergency core cooling systems to provide long-term core ...

Laser scanning technology continues to gain momentum in the construction industry for its ability to help Building Teams collect tons of highly accurate information in a very short period of time.

Matthew Shaw and William Trossell document the world with lasers. When the duo founded ScanLab Projects in 2011, they were a pair of freshly minted architecture school graduates who'd gotten their ...

First high-resolution laser survey of ancient site shows importance of solstices and efforts to make those events more dramatic. Photonics technology has revealed in unprecedented detail the efforts ...

One strike against the human species is that we’ve filled the Earth’s oceans and beaches with garbage. A point in our favor, though: We’ve figured out how to use 3-D laser scanners to automatically ...

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 ...

Researchers were given full access to the building that served as a 24-room boarding home for visiting African-Americans during the era of segregation, James Brown and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. among ...

A new medical imaging technique can reveal the chemical make-up as well as the shape of structures inside the body. It provides a non-invasive way to get information about tumours or other disease ...