Detector
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SaveOneLife is a wearable mine detector that fits in a shoe and warns the wearer if and where a potentially deadly landmine might lurk nearby.
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ScienceWith powerful detectors buried deep in an Italian mountain, a team of researchers is looking to verify the existence of that most elusive of the Universe's ingredients, dark matter.
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Say you're a former Apple engineer who can't shake his hankerin' to simplify clunky products. What do you do? If you're Tony Fadell, then you take boring and complicated home sensors, and give them an Apple-like makeover. Fadell's Nest Protect is his company's new take on the smoke alarm.
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ScienceIn the wake of the shutdown in 2011 of the US Department of Energy's Tevatron, the remaining accelerators at the at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have been reconfigured to drive a world-class neutron beam.
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The largest single piece of experimental scientific apparatus is CERN's Large Hadron Collider. The LHC's ATLAS detector, one of two that discovered the Higgs boson, has a control building adorned with a magnificent mural. How it happened is a fascinating glimpse at the crossroads of art and science.
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MTM's Special Ops RAD watch includes an integrated Geiger-Müller tube for measuring not only single-dose gamma ray levels, but also cumulative exposure from 0.0001 to 9999 millisieverts and dose equivalent rates up to 4,000 microsieverts per hour.
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A prototype explosives-detecting boarding gate promises not to interrupt the flow of passengers boarding a plane.
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ScienceTransuranic element 113 has been confirmed nine years after first being detected.
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ScienceScientists may have hit upon a new means of predicting solar flares more than a day in advance, which hinges on the hypothesis that solar activity affects the rate of decay of radioactive materials on Earth.
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The SAPER mobile app uses a phone's magnetometer to remotely detect 40 different kinds of explosive materials.
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Japanese non-profit organization Radiation Watch has released a $46 Geiger Counter iPhone peripheral.
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The WikiSensor app in conjunction with some opaque black tape covering the camera turns an iPhone 4 into a radiation detector.
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