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Groundwater Management with Smart Hand Pumps
University of Oxford researchers are using low-cost mobile sensors fitted to existing hand pumps to provide water resource data.
Floating Sensor Fingerprints Spilled Oil
A low-cost, floating fluorometer incorporating an array of four photodiode detectors detects and distinguishes among different types of crude and refined oil.
WAMI Sensor Takes First Flight
A wide-area motion imagery (WAMI) system has been carried in the internal payload bay of a small unmanned aircraft system for the first time.
Autonomous Crack Detection in Nuclear Power Plants
An advanced algorithm and a powerful machine learning technique to detect cracks based on the changing texture surrounding cracks on steel surfaces.
Device Predicts Hemorrhagic Shock
New monitoring technology can be used in battlefield and hospital settings to detect when a patient is going into hemorrhagic shock.
PolyU Develops Accurate Contactless 3-D Fingerprint Identification System
The minutiae features from the fingerprint ridges — such as ridge ending and bifurcation — are universally considered to be the most reliable of fingerprint details, ensuring that each fingerprint is unique.
Fewer Malfunctions and Lower Costs Thanks to Smarter Maintenance Model
Researchers at the University of Twente have developed a mathematical model for improving the maintenance schedule for trains, rails, aircraft, self-driving cars, robots and nuclear power plants.
New Ultrafast Flexible and Transparent Memory Devices Could Herald a New Era of Electronics
A new technique to produce the quickest, smallest, highest-capacity memories for flexible and transparent applications could pave the way for a future golden age of electronics.
Molecular "Treasure Maps" to Help Discover New Materials
Scientists at the University of Southampton, working with colleagues at the University of Liverpool, have developed a new method that has the potential to revolutionize the way we search for, design and produce new materials.
New Type of Sensor Material Developed
Hokkaido University scientists have succeeded in developing a nickel complex that changes color and magnetism when exposed to methanol vapor.
A Big Leap Toward Tinier Lines
For the last few decades, microchip manufacturers have been on a quest to find ways to make the patterns of wires and components in their microchips ever smaller, in order to fit more of them onto a single chip and thus continue the relentless progress toward faster and more powerful computers.
Corona Detection Goes 21st Century High Tech
High Definition and Layered Views Contribute to a New Zenith in Hand Held Corona Detection
Now Online: World’s Largest Residential Virtual Power Plant
To date the system has produced more than 300 kW of battery capacity, with more than 200 kW of associated solar capacity in Adelaide, Australia.
Telemedicine Tech in a Backpack
The lightweight plug-and-play system includes everything needed for a reliable video telemedicine encounter.
Video: Intelligent Use of Aviation Lights at Wind Farms
If an approaching airplane is detected within the 8 km range of the system’s radar, it monitors distance, speed, and heading to determine whether or not the aviation lights are to be activated.
Hyundai Showcases Advanced Wearable Robots at 2017 Geneva Motor Show
It is interesting that this technology was showcased at the Geneva Motor Show, but at the same time it is meant to show technology that will be moving people in the future.
New Design Results in Compact, Highly-efficient Frequency Comb
Northwestern University researchers have designed a quantum cascade laser (QCL) frequency comb that is dramatically more efficient than previous iterations.
Restoring Communication for Locked-In Patients
A brain-computer interface enabled four paralyzed patients suffering from complete locked-in syndrome to convey their thoughts.
Tree Species Recognition by Modeling and Measurement
Researchers from Tampere University of Technology and the Natural Resources Institute Finland developed a method to extract individual trees from forest plot level point cloud data.
Open-Source Biosignal Acquisition Device
The Bluetooth data acquisition device has a special focus on bio-signals such as ECG, EMG, and EEG.