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April 7, 2025

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Smartphone Photo Sensors Transformed Into an Unprecedented Resolution Antimatter Camera

Apr. 2, 2025 — Scientists have repurposed smartphone camera sensors to create a detector capable of tracking antiproton annihilations in real time with unprecedented resolution. This new device can pinpoint ...

A Lighter, Smarter Magnetoreceptive Electronic Skin

Mar. 27, 2025 — Imagine navigating a virtual reality with contact lenses or operating your smartphone under water: This and more could soon be a reality thanks to innovative e-skins. A research team has developed an electronic skin that detects and precisely tracks ...

Plant Patch Can Detect Stress Signals in Real Time

Mar. 19, 2025 — Environmental conditions can cause damaging stress to plants, posing challenges for home gardeners and farmers. Therefore, early detection -- before leaves visibly discolor, wilt or wither -- is crucial. Now, researchers have created a wearable ...

Elementary-Particle Detectors, 3D Printed

Mar. 11, 2025 — An international collaboration has shown that additive manufacturing offers a realistic way to build large-scale plastic scintillator detectors for particle physics ...

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X-Ray Snapshot: How Light Bends an Active Substance

Mar. 10, 2025 — With the help of the world's most powerful X-ray laser, a research team has achieved an important breakthrough: Using the example of the pharmaceutically active substance 2-thiouracil, they applied a ...

An Aerosol Test for Airborne Bird Flu

Mar. 7, 2025 — Recent outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (also known as bird flu) have created a need for rapid and sensitive detection methods to mitigate its spread. Now, researchers have developed a ...

Breakthrough in High-Sensitivity Quantum Sensors With Diamond Heteroepitaxy

Feb. 25, 2025 — Heteroepitaxial growth technology has made it possible to create larger diamond substrates, opening new opportunities for industrial-scale production of diamond quantum sensors. A research team has ...

New Biosensor Can Detect Airborne Bird Flu in Under 5 Minutes

Mar. 3, 2025 — As highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza continues to spread in the U.S., posing serious threats to dairy and poultry farms, both farmers and public health experts need better ways to monitor for ...

First Detection of an Ultra-High-Energy Neutrino

Feb. 12, 2025 — Scientists have just detected a neutrino that is thirty times more energetic than any previously detected anywhere in the world. This exceptional discovery opens up new perspectives for understanding ...

New Smart Sensor Takes the Pain out of Wound Monitoring

Feb. 11, 2025 — A major challenge in self-powered wearable sensors for health care monitoring is distinguishing different signals when they occur at the same time. Researchers addressed this issue by uncovering a ...

From Photons to Protons: Team Makes Breakthrough in High-Energy Particle Detection

Feb. 11, 2025 — Researchers have discovered that superconducting nanowire photon detectors can also be used as highly accurate particle detectors, and they have ...

New Diagnostic Tool Will Help LIGO Hunt Gravitational Waves

Jan. 30, 2025 — Researchers have demonstrated a new, unsupervised machine learning approach to find new patterns in the auxiliary channel data of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave ...

Generating Electricity from Tacky Tape

Jan. 30, 2025 — Zaps of static electricity might be a wintertime annoyance, but to certain scientists, they represent an untapped source of energy. Using a device called a triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG), ...

Optical Fiber Sensor Provides Simple and Sensitive Detection of Arsenic in Drinking Water

Jan. 29, 2025 — Researchers have developed a new optical sensor that provides a simple way to achieve real-time detection of extremely low levels of arsenic in ...

Land Ahoy! Experiments at GSI/FAIR Reveal the Shoreline of the Island of Stability of Super-Heavy Elements

Jan. 15, 2025 — A team of researchers has succeeded in exploring the limits of the so-called island of stability within the super-heavy nuclides more precisely by measuring the super-heavy rutherfordium-252 nucleus, ...

Detecting Disease With Only a Single Molecule

Jan. 2, 2025 — Scientists have developed a nanopore-based tool that could help diagnose illnesses much faster and with greater precision than current tests allow, by capturing signals from individual ...

New Technology Doubles Resolution Without Radar Replacement Using Novel Algorithms

Dec. 30, 2024 — Engineers have developed a new signal analysis technology that enhances radar range resolution and is applicable to various radar ...

Microchips Capable of Detecting and Diagnosing Diseases

Dec. 16, 2024 — Researchers have developed microchips using field-effect transistors that can detect multiple diseases from a single air sample with high sensitivity. The technology enables rapid testing and could ...

Researcher Discovers New Technique for Infrared 'Color' Detection and Imaging

Dec. 12, 2024 — A researcher has developed a new technique to detect long wave infrared (LWIR) photons of different wavelengths or 'colors.' The new detection and imaging technique will have applications ...

Particle Research Gets Closer to Answering Why We're Here

Dec. 5, 2024 — Physicists have outlined the next 10 years of global research into the behavior of neutrinos, particles so tiny that they pass through virtually everything by the trillions every second at nearly the ...

Nano-Patterned Copper Oxide Sensor for Ultra-Low Hydrogen Detection

Nov. 22, 2024 — A novel hydrogen sensor offers a promising solution for real-time hydrogen leak detection, addressing safety concerns in industrial applications. This sensor, made with nano-patterned cupric-oxide ...

A Step Toward Safer X-Rays With New Detector Technology

Nov. 13, 2024 — X-rays are a common component of diagnostic testing and industrial monitoring, used for everything from monitoring your teeth to scanning your suitcase at the airport. But the high-energy rays also ...

Nanotechnology: Flexible Biosensors With Modular Design

Nov. 8, 2024 — Researchers have developed a strategy that enables biosensors to be easily adapted for a wide range of ...

New PFAS Testing Method Created

Nov. 6, 2024 — Researchers have discovered a new way to detect per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in water. This marks an important step forward in creating testing devices that are simpler, more ...

Detecting Evidence of Lung Cancer in Exhaled Breath

Nov. 6, 2024 — Exhaled breath contains chemical clues to what's going on inside the body, including diseases like lung cancer. And devising ways to sense these compounds could help doctors provide early ...

AI-Powered System Detects Toxic Gases With Speed and Precision

Nov. 5, 2024 — Researchers have developed an AI-powered system that mimics the human sense of smell to detect and track toxic gases in real time. Using advanced artificial neural networks combined with a network of ...

Research Uses Lasers to Detect Landmines, Underground Objects

Nov. 1, 2024 — Enough landmines are buried underground worldwide to circle Earth twice at the equator, but the identification and removal of these explosives is costly and time-consuming. New research could help ...

A Novel Neural Network for Preserving Cultural Heritage Via 3D Image Reconstruction

Oct. 31, 2024 — Relief-type cultural heritage objects are commonly found in many historical sites worldwide, but often suffer from varying levels of damage and deterioration. Traditional methods for image ...

Developing New High-Performance and Recyclable Materials

Oct. 25, 2024 — Researchers have developed a groundbreaking new material poised to advance high-sensitivity recyclable sensor technology. The team created a recyclable high-sensitivity sensor based on the dynamic ...

Ultra-Sensitive Electronic Skin Modeled After the Human Brain

Oct. 25, 2024 — Researchers have successfully developed an ultra-sensitive pressure sensor for electronic skin modeled after the nervous system in the human brain. This technology is applicable to future devices, ...

A New Spectroscopy Reveals Water's Quantum Secrets

Oct. 25, 2024 — Researchers have exclusively observed molecules participating in hydrogen bonds in liquid water, measuring electronic and nuclear quantum effects that were previously accessible only via theoretical ...

Non-Electric Touchpad Takes Sensor Technology to Extreme Conditions

Oct. 24, 2024 — Researchers have developed the world's first soft touchpad that can sense the force, area and location of contact without electricity. The device utilizes pneumatic channels, enabling its use in ...

Quantum Experiments and High-Performance Computing: New Methods Enable Complex Calculations to Be Completed Extremely Quickly

Oct. 24, 2024 — Scientists have used high-performance computing at large scales to analyze a quantum photonics experiment. In specific terms, this involved the tomographic reconstruction of experimental data from a ...

Successful Experiment Paves the Way for New Element

Oct. 24, 2024 — Scientists have found an alternative way to produce atoms of the superheavy element livermorium. The new method opens up the possibility of creating another element that could be the heaviest in the ...