When you unlock a phone, step into view of a security camera or drive past a license plate reader at night, beams of infrared light - invisible to the naked eye — shine onto the unique contours of ...

In 1962, the futuristic family TV cartoon program “The Jetsons” (set in 2062, 100 years in the future) accurately predicted many of the technologies we use today. George Jetson and his family used ...

Yang Guoliang, who has been under surveillance by Chinese officials after complaining about a land dispute to the central ...

The world is still a long way from universal connectivity: More than 3 billion people don’t have access to the internet. In remote areas, and especially in rough terrain, one challenge is the cost of ...

Light still holds surprises—as demonstrated by researchers from the Ultrafast Phenomena Lab at the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, in collaboration with the Institute of Low Temperature and ...

Researchers demonstrate the conversion of infrared images to the visible, using ultrathin and transparent semiconductor nanocrystals. The demand for detecting infrared (IR) light, invisible to human ...

A couple of weeks ago, a rather interesting video was shared on Reddit. A person using an iPhone 16 Pro Max tried to capture the LiDAR laser system mounted atop the Volvo EX90 for object detection and ...