Tag: Sensors
Quantum sensors could spot hidden damage in the thousands of US...
Alex Krasnok, Florida International University
Every bridge has parts that drivers never see: steel buried in concrete, welds tucked...
Our engineering team is making versatile, tiny sensors from the Nobel-winning...
Jie Huang, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Bohong Zhang, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Chen Zhu, Missouri University of Science...
To help protect newly hatched baby sea turtles, we designed a...
Erin Clabough, University of Virginia
Playing with my children on a beach on Hatteras Island, a barrier island off...
FTC lawsuit spotlights a major privacy risk: From call records to...
Susan Landau, Tufts University
The Federal Trade Commission filed suit against Kochava Inc. on Aug. 29, 2022, accusing the...
A tiny circular racetrack for light can rapidly detect single molecules
Judith Su, University of Arizona
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
The big idea
My Little Sensor Lab at the University of...
Why a computer will never be truly conscious
Subhash Kak, Oklahoma State University
Many advanced artificial intelligence projects say they are working toward building a conscious machine, based on the idea that brain...
Why is the Pentagon interested in UFOs?
Iain Boyd, University of Michigan
U.S. Navy pilots and sailors won’t be considered crazy for reporting unidentified flying objects, under new rules meant to encourage...
Too many airplane systems rely on too few sensors
Carlos Varela, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
The apparent connection between fatal airplane crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia centers around the failure of a single sensor. I...
EXPLORING NATURE
Research about global fishing shows value of detailed environmental data, which...
Mark Axelrod, Michigan State University
To help people who are affected by pollution and other environmental harms, it’s common...
