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November 25, 2024

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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 produce ionizing radiation, which can be dangerous ...

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 cost-effective, faster and generally more accessible than ...

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 diagnoses -- and improve patients' prospects. Researchers ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Soft Microelectronics Technologies Enabling Wearable AI for Digital Health

Oct. 22, 2024 — Developing edge-computing and AI capabilities from wearable sensors enhances their intelligence, critical for the AI of Things, and reduces power consumption by minimizing data exchange between ...

Using Antimatter to Detect Nuclear Radiation

Oct. 1, 2024 — Discerning whether a nuclear reactor is being used to also create material for nuclear weapons is difficult, but capturing and analyzing antimatter particles has shown promise for monitoring what ...

First Observation of Ultra-Rare Process That Could Uncover New Physics

Sep. 24, 2024 — Scientists have discovered an ultra-rare particle decay process, opening a new path to find physics beyond our understanding of how the building blocks of matter ...

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 ...

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 ...

New Results from the CMS Experiment Put W Boson Mass Mystery to Rest

Sep. 17, 2024 — Physicists on the CMS experiment announce the most elaborate mass measurement of a particle that is notoriously difficult to study and has captivated the physics community for ...

Fission Chips: How Vinegar Could Revolutionize Sensor Processing for Wearable Devices

Aug. 28, 2024 — Researchers have used vinegar vapor to dramatically improve UV sensors in a cheap, room-temperature process leading to better wearable ...

New Record in Search for Dark Matter

Aug. 26, 2024 — New results from the world's most sensitive dark matter detector put the best-ever limits on particles called WIMPs, a leading candidate for what makes up our universe's invisible ...

MIT Researchers Use Large Language Models to Flag Problems in Complex Systems

Aug. 13, 2024 — Researchers used large language models to efficiently detect anomalies in time-series data, without the need for costly and cumbersome training steps. This method could someday help alert technicians ...

'Amphibious' Sensors Make New, Waterproof Technologies Possible

Aug. 7, 2024 — Researchers have demonstrated a technique for creating sensors that can function both in air and underwater. The approach paves the way for 'amphibious' sensors with applications ranging ...

First Measurement of Electron And Muon-Neutrino Interaction Rates at the Highest Energy Ever Detected from an Artificial Source

Aug. 5, 2024 — Understanding neutrino interactions is crucial for obtaining a complete picture of particle physics and the universe. To date, neutrino interaction cross sections have not been measured at high ...

Improving Alzheimer's Disease Imaging -- With Fluorescent Sensors

July 31, 2024 — Neurotransmitter levels in the brain can indicate brain health and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's. However, the protective blood-brain barrier (BBB) makes delivering fluorescent ...

Dark Matter: A Camera Trap for the Invisible

July 29, 2024 — AI-powered image recognition could give researchers a new tool in hunt for dark ...

Wearable Sensors Help Athletes Achieve Greater Performance

July 23, 2024 — Researchers have developed a low-cost, flexible, and customizable sensor for badminton players that overcomes current monitoring constraints. The team used triboelectric sensors to construct their ...

3D-Printed Chip Sensor Detects Foodborne Pathogens for Safer Products

June 25, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new method for detecting foodborne pathogens that is faster, cheaper, and more effective than existing methods. Their microfluidic chip uses light to detect multiple ...

This Self-Powered Sensor Could Make MRIs More Efficient

May 31, 2024 — MRI scans are commonly used to diagnose a variety of conditions, anything from liver disease to brain tumors. But, as anyone who has been through one knows, patients must remain completely still to ...

Bio-Inspired Cameras and AI Help Drivers Detect Pedestrians and Obstacles Faster

May 29, 2024 — Artificial intelligence (AI) combined with a novel bio-inspired camera achieves 100 times faster detection of pedestrians and obstacles than current automotive cameras. This important step for ...

Nanotubes, Nanoparticles, and Antibodies Detect Tiny Amounts of Fentanyl

May 2, 2024 — A research team has developed a fentanyl sensor that is six orders of magnitude more sensitive than any electrochemical sensor for the drug reported in the past five years. The portable sensor can ...

This Highly Reflective Black Paint Makes Objects More Visible to Autonomous Cars

May 2, 2024 — Driving at night might be a scary challenge for a new driver, but with hours of practice it soon becomes second nature. For self-driving cars, however, practice may not be enough because the lidar ...

With Inspiration from 'Tetris,' Researchers Develop a Better Radiation Detector

Apr. 11, 2024 — A new detector system based on the game 'Tetris' could enable inexpensive, accurate radiation detectors for monitoring nuclear ...

Innovative Sensing Platform Unlocks Ultrahigh Sensitivity in Conventional Sensors

Apr. 5, 2024 — Engineers unlock the power of exceptional points (EPs) for advanced optical sensing. EPs -- specific conditions in systems where extraordinary optical phenomena can occur -- can be deployed on ...

Kerr-Enhanced Optical Spring for Next-Generation Gravitational Wave Detectors

Apr. 5, 2024 — A novel technique for enhancing optical spring that utilizes the Kerr effect to improve the sensitivity of gravitational wave detectors (GWDs) has recently been developed. This innovative design uses ...

Brain-Inspired Wireless System to Gather Data from Salt-Sized Sensors

Mar. 19, 2024 — In a new study, researchers describe a novel approach for a wireless communication network that can efficiently transmit, receive and decode data from thousands of microelectronic chips that are each ...