Door sensors detect door position (i.e., open or closed) based on the precise gap between the magnet and the reed switch.

The 2026 NBA Draft Combine has officially tipped off, just hours removed from the fateful 2026 NBA Draft Lottery. NBA scouts and decision-makers are now getting up close and personal looks at the 2026 ...

Physicists have just dropped a new precise measurement for gravity. The newly published value for the strength of gravity, known as “G” or “Big G”, is significantly smaller than some previous ...

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 ...

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 ...

Skoltech scientists, in collaboration with colleagues from China and Iran, have taken a major step toward creating highly precise carbon nanotube fiber (CNTF)-based sensors. In a paper published in ...

Researchers have created “Smart Underwear,” a wearable device that measures flatulence by detecting hydrogen produced by gut microbes. Early tests suggest people may pass gas about 32 times a day—much ...

INDIANAPOLIS -- The NFL Scouting Combine is in the books, and what a week it was. With the final group of prospects now having completed measurements and on-field workouts, another year in ...

The Corps has gone further in its waist-to-height ratio than the Pentagon’s standards. Here, Lance Cpl. Bruno, the MCRD San Diego and Western Recruiting Region mascot, gets weighed during his ...

Known as the “godmother of civil rights,” Dorothy Height fought not just for racial justice but for women’s equality. Morris Dosewell, Dorothy Height, Alexander Allen, Basil Paterson, and Bayard ...

Scientists at the University of Maryland have created Smart Underwear, the first wearable device designed to measure human flatulence. By tracking hydrogen in flatus, the device helps scientists ...

For decades, body mass index (BMI) has been the dominant tool for defining obesity, despite longstanding concerns that it poorly reflects individual health risk. Growing evidence suggests that the ...