Industrial quality inspection plays a critical role in manufacturing, from ensuring the reliability of electronics and vehicles to preventing costly failures in aerospace and energy systems.

Across the U.S., hundreds of sites on land or in lakes and rivers are heavily contaminated with hazardous waste produced by human activity. Many of these places, designated as Superfund sites by the ...

Future devices will continue to probe the frontier of the very small, and at scales where functionality depends on mere atoms, even the tiniest flaw matters. Researchers at Rice University have shown ...

Researchers in the United States have developed a new technique that can spot hidden ...

The automatic detection of surface-level irregularities—defects or anomalies—in 3D data is of significant interest for ...

Researchers have shown that hard-to-spot defects in a widely used two-dimensional insulator can trap electrical charges and locally weaken the material, making it more likely to fail at lower voltages ...

One way cancer specialists detect the disease is by examining cells and bodily fluids under a microscope, a time-consuming ...

A new research report from Microsoft has found that no single technology can reliably distinguish AI-generated content from authentic media, and that deepening reliance on any one method risks ...

Quantum technologies are anticipated to transform computing, communication, and sensing by harnessing the unusual behavior of matter at the atomic scale. Translating quantum's promise into practical ...