X-raying auditory ossicles: New technique reveals structures in record time

Scientists at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have refined an X-ray diffraction technique for detecting biological structures ...
IEEE

Fully Stable Formulations of the Spherically Layered Media Theory Using Scaled Bessel Functions

Abstract: The spherically layered media (SLM) theory has wide applications for electromagnetic wave scattering analysis. Due to the involved Bessel functions, the traditional formulations of the SLM ...
AZoOptics

Fast 3D Defect and Surface Roughness Measurement for Manufacturing Quality Control

Optical 3D metrology enables fast, non-contact surface roughness measurement of defects and roughness for precise ...
ZME Science

Meet Stephen Quake: The Scientist Who Treats Biology like Physics and Turned Life Into Data

Biology has always been an unruly science. Cells divide when they want to. Genes switch on and off like temperamental lights.
IEEE

Cross-Scene Semantic Segmentation for Medical Surgical Instruments Using Structural Similarity-Based Partial Activation Networks

Abstract: Robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery requires accurate segmentation for surgical instruments in order to guide surgical robots on tracking the target instruments. Nevertheless, it is ...
Open Access Government

Measuring the future: Nanoscale metrology and the global race for technological competitiveness

Cecilia Van Cauwenberghe explains how to measure the future using nanoscale metrology and discusses the global competition ...