Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators have developed a new type of lidar—a laser-based remote-sensing instrument—that can observe cloud ...

UPDATE (10:45 a.m.) — Bull Canyon Road in Santa Maria appears to be back open, according to Caltrans. The San Luis Obispo County Fire Department reports that several engines and fire crews are still ...

The generation of femtosecond optical pulses 1 has opened up a range of applications from real-time monitoring of chemical reactions through to ultrahigh-bit-rate optical communications 2, and has led ...

Red dot sights have proliferated into every corner of the firearms world in recent years and, today, they are better than ever. These non-magnified optics, which use a battery to project a luminous ...

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