I like to think of engineers as doctors of the electronics world. Let me explain: Think about the last time an optometrist examined your “human sensors.” Did they prescribe glasses to compensate for ...

On a crisp, cloudless day earlier this year Ricardo Toledo-Crow went for a stroll in Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx looking for one of the city’s newly discovered weak points: where water goes and ...

The government needs to get smart about handling the coming flood of real-time, sensor-based data, writes consultant Marc Demarest. Marc Demarest is CEO and principal at Noumenal, a principals-only ...

Irvine, Calif., Sept. 18, 2006 -- A discovery by UC Irvine scientists could help public health officials know instantly when pollution has moved into the coastal ocean -- a breakthrough that could ...

A research team develops a real-time humidity sensing optical sensor. The response time of the new sensor is 10,000 times faster than the conventional sensors and can be mass-produced at low cost. The ...

What are the database management system (DBMS) requirements for complex real-time sensor data fusion? What application modifications are needed if a DBMS isn’t being used? Different definitions of ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The recent oil spill on the St. Marys River has pressed a new program from Lake Superior State University into action. The university’s Center for Freshwater Research and ...

A research team led by Professor Jiang Changlong at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has developed a highly sensitive, real-time sensor for detecting trace water, ...

Batch processing and testing is a mainstay of the biopharmaceutical industry today. But, as operations become increasingly automated and continuous and integrated manufacturing is adapted more widely, ...

In a recent article published in the journal Nature, a team of researchers described a wearable ultrasonic device that allows cardiac function to be assessed directly in real-time, with improved ...

Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT, President Park, Sun-Kyu) has successfully developed a real-time, low-cost algal bloom monitoring system utilizing inexpensive ...

A molecular model showing three of the main epigenetic modifications of DNA (orange) and histones (dark blue) [JUAN GAERTNER/Science Photo Library/Getty Images] Post-translational modifications (PTMs) ...