While glass bricks are effective for allowing daylight into buildings, they're not good insulators and they can't be used for entire load-bearing walls. Such is reportedly not the case, however ...

Learn about how light is transmitted through different materials and how to create ray diagrams to show light transmission with this guide for KS3 physics students aged 11-14 from BBC Bitesize.

Computed tomography (CT) scans are one modality for digitizing transparent objects, while structured light scanning is an established technique for scanning non-translucent items. The initial ...

Learn about how light is transmitted through different materials and how to create ray diagrams to show light transmission with this guide for KS3 physics students aged 11-14 from BBC Bitesize.

The system can't pick up transparent or reflective objects as efficiently as opaque objects, said Thomas Weng, a Ph.D. student in robotics. But it is far more successful than depth camera systems ...

While this system works well enough on relatively dull opaque objects, it has problems with transparent items that much of the light passes through, or shiny objects that scatter the reflected light.

The glass frog's translucent stomach skin offers a window into its internal organs. New research finds this odd seeming trait may help the frogs evade predators. Jorge GarcÍa / VW Pics ...

Cortesia de antoniolupi. Using this material, the company has developed a line of bathtubs (Reflex and Borghi) and sinks (Albume, Aura, Borghi, Opale and Vitreo), which offer several tones to mix ...

The new screen technology is accompanied by bold claims of better brightness and clarity than transparent OLED screens. Samsung's New Transparent Micro-LED Boosts Picture Quality of See-Through ...

A group of researchers from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm has developed Optically Transparent Wood (TW), a new material that could greatly impact the way we develop our ...

Jul 14, 2020: Transparent, reflective objects now within grasp of robots (w/video) (Nanowerk News) Kitchen robots are a popular vision of the future, but if a robot of today tries to grasp a kitchen ...