Nano-sensors that work without batteries or wires could pave the way for more comfortable, less obtrusive sleep and health ...

Seoul, Korea — Planet82 Inc. has unveiled its VGA-color single carrier modulation photo detector (SMPD) at CES for taking digital pictures or video in the dark without a flash. The company says the ...

Battery-free nano-sensors enable self-powered sleep and health monitoring via movement, for dementia care and other use.

Nano-sensors are devices that use nanotechnology to detect, measure, and respond to specific physical, chemical, or biological changes in the targeted environment at the nanoscale. 2 These highly ...

Optomechanics as a branch of physics allows to control the motion of mechanical systems through interaction with light. This successful synergy drove the development and widespread adoption of ...

Some biomarkers lack technologies to precisely detect them for medical applications. With potential uses to spot lung cancers at an early stage--a holy grail of biomarker research--a nanopore sensor ...

Nanotechnology — an exciting area of research involving materials ranging in size from 1 nm to 900 nm — has potential applications that span many industries, including medicine and life sciences. One ...

Young scientists from ITMO University proposed a new type of optical nano-sensors. Their operating principle is based on the interaction of light in thin films: a similar effect can be observed in ...

Researchers have developed a tiny sensor for detecting pesticides on fruit in just a few minutes. The technique uses flame-sprayed nanoparticles made from silver to increase the signal of chemicals.

Anthony Previte, CEO of the space company Terran Orbital, was set on the path to his company’s latest project by a nurse he encountered amid the chaos of 9/11, one block north of Ground Zero. A ...

Through developing a graphene-nanosheet-based ink, collaborators at the University of California – San Diego and the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology have produced flexible, ...

Air pollution is responsible for 550,000 premature deaths a year in Europe - and 7 million worldwide, according to the WHO. Measuring it can be a challenge, however, as the equipment tends to be large ...