Finding buried treasures with physics: 'Fingerprint matrix' method uncovers what lies beneath the sand

Finding buried treasures with physics: 'Fingerprint matrix' method uncovers what lies beneath the sand

Can we reveal objects that are hidden in environments completely opaque to the human eye? With conventional imaging techniques, the answer is no: a dense cloud or layer of material blocks light so completely that a simple photograph contains no information about what lies behind it.

Finding treasures with physics: the fingerprint matrix

2.10.2025 - How do you find objects buried in sand or hidden in thick fog? A team from the Institut Langevin (Paris) and TU Wien (Vienna) has developed an astonishing method.