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New Sensor for Space Weather Monitoring

A satellite operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for space weather tracking has been fitted with the Solar Wind Plasma Sensor (SWiPS), developed by the Southwest Research Institute.

3 Oct 2024

Femtonics has Won the Innovation Award at the 32nd Hungarian Innovation Grand Award Competition

The award was presented by the Hungarian Intellectual Property Office during the ceremony held at the Parliament House.

From Femtonics 6 Sep 2024

Microchip Releases Its 2023 Sustainability Report Highlighting Its Environmental Stewardship and Social Impact

One of Microchip’s Guiding Values is “Professional Ethics and Social Responsibility Are Practiced,” which means that the company manages its business and treats its customers, employees, shareholders, investors, suppliers, channel partners, community, and government in a manner that exemplifies honesty, ethics, and integrity.

From Microchip Technology Inc. 29 Aug 2024

‘Ultra-Cool’ Quantum Sensor Offers a Wide Range of Possible Space Applications

In a study that was published on August 13th, 2024, in Nature Communications, scientists used one of the lab's onboard instruments to measure the space station's faint vibrations.

14 Aug 2024

SwRI and UTD Join Hands to Assess Next-Gen Sensor

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) researchers are working together to test a next-generation sensor for measuring neutral gas velocities in the Earth's high atmosphere.

17 Jul 2024

Vibrotactile Devices Help Astronauts Maintain Balance in Space

Losing the sense of direction can be perilous for aircraft pilots, with spatial disorientation being a leading cause of fatal aviation accidents.

6 Nov 2023

Biodegradable Sensors for Precision and Sustainable Agriculture

The use of remote sensing technologies to monitor air and soil environmental data in real time to assist in improving agricultural yield has been driven by increasingly restricted land and water resources.

18 Oct 2023

Remote Sensing Details Mountain Glacier Data

According to the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Chinese scientists have successfully acquired mountain glacier data using an aeronautic remote sensing system during an ongoing airborne-ground science experiment on determining the condition of Bayi Glacier in Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, northwest China’s Qinghai Province.

23 May 2023

CSIRO Technology to Help Global Landmine Clearing Efforts

New landmine detection technology, developed by Australia’s national science agency CSIRO, could soon help landmine-affected countries with their demining efforts.

4 Apr 2023

Nanotube Sensors Detect and Distinguish Gibberellin Plant Hormones

Researchers from Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory (TLL) and the Disruptive & Sustainable Technologies for Agricultural Precision (DiSTAP) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) of Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), the research arm of MIT in Singapore, have created the first ever nanosensors capable of detecting and differentiating gibberellins (GAs), a class of hormones in plants that are crucial for growth.

21 Feb 2023