Car accidents are responsible for approximately a million deaths each year globally. Among the many causes, driving at night, when vision is most limited, leads to accidents with higher mortality ...

Crystals doped with rare-earth (RE) ions exhibit very narrow linewidths of the optical transitions. The narrow-line spectra of triply ionized RE elements cover the entire visible and infrared range.

From Disney World to the smartphone in your pocket, fingerprint scanners have become commonplace these days. Even budget phones sport the tech, sometimes alongside other biometric unlocking options ...

Fairfax County voters will have a new option for casting their ballots Nov. 4, and it will look a lot like a high school math test. Fairfax officials have bought about 240 optical scanner machines, ...

More and more nightclub bouncers will be sliding driver licenses through a scanner to detect fake IDs. More and more retailers will be scanning checks to streamline processing. And the scanning will ...

Zac has been writing about Android as a hobby since he was a teenager and fulfilled his ambition of doing so professionally when he joined Android Police as a Reviewer in 2020. Zac specializes in ...