Dirt. For millennia, the dark, rich soil underlying farms and gardens worldwide has been central to human survival. It’s also a lot more complex than it looks. Within every clump of soil lies an ...

Living on a hill near a gravel pit in Draper, Utah, Adrian Dybwad can see the dust rise from the pit when a strong wind blows. "I just wondered how much dust was generated," he said. His curiosity led ...

The new sensors, called the "Maryland HydroNet" and installed by the University of Maryland, will help local governments as well as those who live in flood prone areas track rising floodwaters in real ...

Engineers at Stanford University and at Georgia Institute of Technology have created a small, autonomous device with a stretchable/flexible sensor that can be adhered to the skin of cancer-bearing ...

Engineers at Tufts University have created and demonstrated flexible thread-based sensors that can measure movement of the neck, providing data on the direction, angle of rotation and degree of ...

MIT researchers have created a quantum sensor that can measure multiple physical quantities at high-resolution. The sensor is made from so-called nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamonds, where a carbon ...

Sensors play a large role in gathering information in a multitude of automotive and aerospace test setups. Brett Burger, an engineer at National Instruments specializing in aerospace applications, ...

CU Boulder Today—A team of University of Colorado Boulder researchers is making reliable, inexpensive and easy-to-deploy sensors that monitor soil in real time as it, essentially, breathes in and out.

A special class of sensors leverages quantum properties to measure tiny signals at levels that would be impossible using classical sensors alone. Such quantum sensors are currently being used to study ...