It’s always interesting to see how scientists and engineers have exploited—in the positive sense of the word—somewhat obscure, fundamental physics principles to create innovative sensors. For example, ...

Pipeline contents are typically valuable, volatile, and harmful to the environment if allowed to escape. With them being susceptible to aging, accidental damage, or tampering, the chances of an escape ...

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

United States Air Force Test Pilot School partnered with the 586th Flight Test Squadron at Holloman AFB and NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center to test the new use case of the AgilePod using a ...

WASHINGTON —With an aging global population comes a need for new sensor technologies that can help clinicians and caregivers remotely monitor a person’s health. New smart pants based on fiber optic ...

Researchers at a field site in Victoria, Australia are among the first to use fiber optic distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) for high-precision tracking of induced seismicity from a small carbon ...

Fiber-optic services are becoming more popular, and networks are expanding to cover more areas for faster data transfer speeds. Fiber-optic data transfer differs from traditional methods like ...

Many of the world’s largest and most devastating earthquakes strike beneath the ocean, where the lack of sensors makes quick warnings difficult. Most monitoring stations are on land. “If we have a big ...

A permafrost-created a pingo or "ice pimple" in the North Slope of Alaska. Scientists from Sandia National Laboratories have been using a fiber optic cable to study permafrost in the Arctic seafloor ...

This project, which brings together business and academia, turns telecommunications infrastructure into a scientific tool to improve the detection of ...