The sooner a farmer knows that their crops are suffering, the faster they can take action to prevent major crop failure. A new plant-leaf-poking sensor could soon help them do so, by sending an alert ...

Over the past decades, physicists and quantum engineers introduced a wide range of systems that perform desired functions ...

Engineers have introduced a holistic system that integrates sensing, storage and processing at the sensor's edge to enable efficient and secure signal processing. Brain-inspired hardware minimizes ...

The best way to find buried treasure may be with a quantum gravity sensor. In these devices, free-falling atoms reveal subtle variations in Earth’s gravitational pull at different places. Those ...

Magnetic sensors quietly underpin everything from smartphone compasses to the stability systems that keep electric vehicles ...

Accurate, continuous monitoring of nitrogen dioxide and other gases in humid environments is now possible, thanks to a new water-resistant gas sensor. Accurate, continuous monitoring of nitrogen ...

CHICAGO—January 8, 2023—Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech) has received a substantial grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to launch a pioneering education program in sensory ...

A new study has identified a critical "pressure sensor" inside the kidney that helps the body control blood pressure and ...

BEAVERTON, Oregon — Vernier Science Education recently launched the Go Direct ® Soil Moisture Sensor to help high school and college-level students easily and accurately collect data during soil ...

Imagine sticking a patch made of flexible electronics on your skin that could read your body temperature, monitor your blood circulation, even tell you when you need to put on sunscreen — and that ...

A whisper-thin new pressure sensor could be a step toward creating artificial skin that is able to actually feel. A sense of touch is important for developing robots that can navigate the world, and ...