A company called The90 just announced a piece of smart jewelry called The Gem that is designed to help women keep an eye on real-time UV exposure. The company was founded by Stacy Salvi, who spent ...

New York City's Department of Transportation is expanding its use of high-tech sensors across city streets, Commissioner Mike Flynn announced this week. The devices are meant to help the department ...

Quantum computers get a lot of attention, even though they are not ready for prime time, but quantum sensors are already doing useful work. These sensors measure fields, forces and motion so small ...

Door sensors are some of the simplest smart home devices you can get. Instead of anything fancy like measuring the heat or motion, all they do is detect when their two halves are separated. Yet, that ...

Discover how fast UV flame detectors really are through precision experiments using pulsed UV LEDs. Learn how these sensors respond in milliseconds and even detect bursts as short as 100 microseconds, ...

Researchers in Ania Bleszynski Jayich’s lab use a mechanical resonator to enable greater entanglement for potentially more powerful sensors. Most people think of diamonds as high-end adornments. Not ...

A research team led by Professor Jiwoong Yang of the Department of Energy Science and Engineering at DGIST has developed next-generation optical sensor technology capable of precisely detecting not ...

What if we could turn off the lights, flip on a flashlight, and watch the world transform in a dim purple glow? If you're a fan of forensic crime dramas, or you've used ultraviolet tools at work to ...

There are countless smart home devices, varied in gadgetry and practicality, that you can place piecemeal throughout your home and configure any way you want. From voice assistants to smart locks, ...

What if you could *see* UV radiation before it has the potential to cause harm? A novel color-changing ‘living’ sensor could make this a reality, revealing exposure to damaging UV light and paving the ...