Detector
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To help find out if its worth going to a particular asteroid, scientists from Vanderbilt and Fisk Universities are developing a new gamma-ray spectroscope that's capable of scanning asteroids for valuable minerals.
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Halo WX, a new smoke detector just hitting the market, features all of the smoke and carbon monoxide detection one would expect, while also adding in alerts for natural disasters.
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Researchers from the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) in Spain claim to have created a graphene-based photodetector that converts light into electricity in under 50 quadrillionths of a second. This may give rise to a new range of super-efficient, ultrafast electronic components.
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With more goods passing through the world's shipping terminals and airports than ever before, hunting explosives is a bottleneck. To help US counterterrorism efforts, GE has developed RFID stickers that act as wireless, battery-free explosives detectors that can be placed almost anywhere.
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Tracking migrating pods of gray whales is a major undertaking. In hopes of making binoculars and clipboards a thing of the past, NOAA has installed a new generation of whale detectors to keep an electronic eye on the passing leviathans.
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A European Space Agency experiment aboard the International Space Station suggests that space travelers may have less to worry about when it comes to radiation ... thanks to a phantom.
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ScienceThe Institute of Food Research in Norwich and Oxford Instruments have developed a portable detector that can differentiate between horse meat and beef in about 10 minutes, yet is inexpensive and simple to use.
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FreshAir's AirGuard uses sophisticated polymer technology to detect and rat out illicit tobacco and marijuana smokers. Targeted at the hotel market, AirGuard could also be a big hit in workplaces, public housing, college dorms, jails and anywhere else where smoking is restricted.
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ScienceA professor of physics from the University of Wisconsin has come up with an app to turn your smartphone into a cosmic ray detector that works in a similar way to those instruments found in high-tech observatories and mega-expensive laboratories.
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ScienceResearchers at the University of Maryland have developed an ultra-thin terahertz band light detector that can see just below the surface of clothing, body tissues, plastic, and other non-metallic objects.
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A team of researchers from the University of Michigan (U-M) have created an ultrathin graphene-based light detector that has the potential to put infrared heat detecting technology into a contact lens.
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ScienceResearchers at the University of Michigan have developed a faster, cheaper way for nuclear power plants to detect and map dangerous hot spots and leaky fuel rods using a camera that maps radiation in real time.
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