Nuclear power plants and the manufacture of nuclear weapons require constant monitoring of radiation levels to ensure the safety of workers. However, most radiation measuring equipment only works very ...

The amazing canine nose is more impressive than we thought, demonstrating the ability to detect weak infrared radiation from a distance, according to new research. The rhinarium—the cold, wet, bare ...

Tesla removed the ultrasonic sensors from the recently-built cars in a move many framed as a cost-cutting measure. Without them, some parking features and distance measurements to obstacles around the ...

Tracking and locating hazardous radioactive materials has become an immense concern for the United States Department of Homeland Security. In the wrong hands, materials snatched from a hospital or a ...

Road accidents often stem from failing to notice vehicles. A study published in the journal IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems introduces a method for detecting distant vehicles ...

Reader [Joshua] sent in his latest project. using a sonar rangefinder, an Arduino, and some clever programming, he’s made is computer react to his distance from it. As you can see in the video after ...

Going the distance According to TU Vienna's Professor Bernhard Lendl, because only a few of the hundreds of millions of photons hitting a sample trigger a Raman scattering process and these scattered ...

The NYPD is working to develop a tool capable of detecting concealed firearms at a distance. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly says the department is working with the U.S. Department of Defense to ...

Most RFID systems can not be utilized for distance detection, because signals from a tag to a reader often take multiple paths to the reader antenna. This makes calculating a tag’s precise distance ...

The Defense Department's premier research agency put a call out for technology that can detect and identify from great distances dangerous biological and chemical substances. The Defense Advanced ...

Machines need sensors and transmitters to operate reliably and consistently. All it takes is a small drop in air pressure or a slight jam to cause a machine to crash; these sorts of problems can often ...