Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers have made a breakthrough that could pave the way for affordable, highly sensitive robotic touch. A team from ...

Whether they're in machines, buildings or aircraft, it's always helpful to know if components are undergoing mechanical stress. A new material could quickly and easily let inspection personnel know, ...

History has shown that advancements in materials science and engineering have been important drivers in the development of sensor technologies. For instance, the temperature sensitivity of electrical ...

The new material can potentially be used not only as a chemical sensor, but also with future rewritable memory devices. The phenomenon of color changes in a substance, triggered by volatile organic ...

Sensors used to monitor extreme environments need to provide reliable measurements despite high temperatures and harsh conditions. Now, researchers have developed a piezoelectric sensor that works at ...

The ideal chemical sensor is an inexpensive, portable, foolproof device that responds with perfect and instantaneous selectivity to a particular target chemical substance (analyte) present in any ...