element14 Community
element14 Community
    Register Log In
  • Site
  • Search
  • Log In Register
  • Community Hub
    Community Hub
    • What's New on element14
    • Feedback and Support
    • Benefits of Membership
    • Personal Blogs
    • Members Area
    • Achievement Levels
  • Learn
    Learn
    • Ask an Expert
    • eBooks
    • element14 presents
    • Learning Center
    • Tech Spotlight
    • STEM Academy
    • Webinars, Training and Events
    • Learning Groups
  • Technologies
    Technologies
    • 3D Printing
    • FPGA
    • Industrial Automation
    • Internet of Things
    • Power & Energy
    • Sensors
    • Technology Groups
  • Challenges & Projects
    Challenges & Projects
    • Design Challenges
    • element14 presents Projects
    • Project14
    • Arduino Projects
    • Raspberry Pi Projects
    • Project Groups
  • Products
    Products
    • Arduino
    • Avnet & Tria Boards Community
    • Dev Tools
    • Manufacturers
    • Multicomp Pro
    • Product Groups
    • Raspberry Pi
    • RoadTests & Reviews
  • About Us
    About the element14 Community
  • Store
    Store
    • Visit Your Store
    • Choose another store...
      • Europe
      •  Austria (German)
      •  Belgium (Dutch, French)
      •  Bulgaria (Bulgarian)
      •  Czech Republic (Czech)
      •  Denmark (Danish)
      •  Estonia (Estonian)
      •  Finland (Finnish)
      •  France (French)
      •  Germany (German)
      •  Hungary (Hungarian)
      •  Ireland
      •  Israel
      •  Italy (Italian)
      •  Latvia (Latvian)
      •  
      •  Lithuania (Lithuanian)
      •  Netherlands (Dutch)
      •  Norway (Norwegian)
      •  Poland (Polish)
      •  Portugal (Portuguese)
      •  Romania (Romanian)
      •  Russia (Russian)
      •  Slovakia (Slovak)
      •  Slovenia (Slovenian)
      •  Spain (Spanish)
      •  Sweden (Swedish)
      •  Switzerland(German, French)
      •  Turkey (Turkish)
      •  United Kingdom
      • Asia Pacific
      •  Australia
      •  China
      •  Hong Kong
      •  India
      •  Japan
      •  Korea (Korean)
      •  Malaysia
      •  New Zealand
      •  Philippines
      •  Singapore
      •  Taiwan
      •  Thailand (Thai)
      •  Vietnam
      • Americas
      •  Brazil (Portuguese)
      •  Canada
      •  Mexico (Spanish)
      •  United States
      Can't find the country/region you're looking for? Visit our export site or find a local distributor.
  • Translate
  • Profile
  • Settings
Sensors
  • Technologies
  • More
Sensors
Blog
  • Blog
  • Forum
  • Documents
  • Quiz
  • Events
  • Polls
  • Members
  • Mentions
  • Sub-Groups
  • Tags
  • More
  • Cancel
  • New
Join Sensors to participate - click to join for free!

Blog

  • Tags
  • Subscribe by email
  • More
  • Cancel
  • Kyoto University’s Lignosay Could Launch Into Earth Orbit as Early as This Summer

    Catwell
    Catwell
    The wooden satellite can help reduce space junk when metal-based satellites burn up in the atmosphere. (Image Credit: Kyoto University) We've talked about how bad space garbage/debris can be many times. I do hope this makes an impact on how sate...
    • 4 Mar 2024
  • Scientists Use LIDAR to Uncover 2,500-year-old Lost Cities in The Amazon Rainforest

    Catwell
    Catwell
    A LIDAR image unveils roads and platforms located in the Kunguints site in Ecuador's Upano valley. (Image Credit: ANTOINE DORISON AND STÉPHEN ROSTAIN) Scientists discovered a group of lost cities in the Ecuador valley of the Amazon rainf...
    • 28 Feb 2024
  • The US Lands on the Moon With Interactive Machines’ Odysseus Spacecraft

    Catwell
    Catwell
    The spacecraft passed over the Moon’s near side after orbital insertion. (Image Credit: Intuitive Machines) It’s been a long time coming, but the United States has finally landed on the Moon since NASA’s Apollo 17 mission in Decemb...
    • 23 Feb 2024
  • Researchers Develop a New Method That Distinguishes Between an Earthquake or Nuke Explosion

    Catwell
    Catwell
    (Image Credit: gerait/pixabay) The US, Russia, UK, France, China, India, Pakistan, and North Korea have performed over 2,000 nuke tests ever since the first one detonated in 1945. Nowadays, groups like the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organ...
    • 22 Feb 2024
  • Millenium Camera to Provide a Glimpse of the Past for Viewers 1000 Years into the Future

    Catwell
    Catwell
    The camera features a thin sheet of 24k gold with a pinhole that allows light to slowly fade a photo-sensitive surface coated in many thin layers of rose madder. When future generations open its copper cylinder housing, they will see an image of Tuc...
    • 9 Feb 2024
  • Busted: Massive Polluting Company Detected From Space

    Catwell
    Catwell
    NASA’s EMIT sensor detected this 2-mile-long methane plume in New Mexico. (Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) In 2023, Kayrros, an environmental intelligence company, used satellite data to determine exactly where 1,300 super-emitters of methane ...
    • 7 Feb 2024
  • Scientists Record Plants Communicating With Each Other to Warn Them of Potential Threats

    Catwell
    Catwell
    The Arabidopsis plant cells glow green after exposure to VOCs, signifying plant-to-plant communication. (Image Credit: Aratani et al. Nature Communications, 2023) When a plant is damaged by insects or other means, it releases volatile organic compou...
    • 24 Jan 2024
  • MIT's Imaging System Captures Light Traveling - Trillion-Frames-Per-Second Camera

    Catwell
    Catwell
    The imaging solution produces a frame every two trillionths of a second, and the result shows the movement of light at roughly half a trillion frames per second. (Image credit: MIT) Light travels at 186,000 miles per second, 671,000,000 miles per ho...
    • 19 Jan 2024
  • Scientists and Alien Hunters Team Up to Talk to Whales

    Catwell
    Catwell
    The team had a 20-minute conversation with a humpback named Twain in her own language by using contact calls, a simple call that lets other whales know they are in the vicinity. (Image credit: Pixabay) A team of scientists from the University of Cal...
    • 3 Jan 2024
  • Strange Matter Orbiting Massive Black Hole Emits Powerful Radiation Every 76 Minutes

    Catwell
    Catwell
    The strange matter orbits the massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way and pulses gamma-ray radiation aimed at the Earth. (Image credit: Pixabay) A pair of scientists, Gustavo Magallanes-Guijon and Sergio Mendoza, from the National Autonom...
    • 29 Dec 2023
  • Scientists Develop Material That Changes Shape Depending on Temperature

    Catwell
    Catwell
    The composite material expands and contracts based on temperature in order to perform specific tasks. (Image credit: University of Illinois) Scientists from the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champagne) have developed a new composite material that c...
    • 19 Dec 2023
  • Noninvasive Mind-Reading AI Translates Thoughts into Text

    Catwell
    Catwell
    The portable, noninvasive system could help those unable to speak to communicate with others using thought. (Image credit: University of Technology Sydney via YouTube) Researchers from the GrapheneX-UTS Human-centric Artificial Intelligence Centre ...
    • 15 Dec 2023
  • Californian Woman Sets a New Record With 52 Chip Implants in Her Body

    Catwell
    Catwell
    Anatasia won a Guinness world record for implanting 52 chips in her body. (Image Credit: Guinness World Records) We've seen many accomplishments in the technological world, but Anastasia Synn may have taken the cake — she implanted a recor...
    • 7 Dec 2023
  • 3D Printing Technique Could Lead to Better Prosthetics

    Catwell
    Catwell
    The team 3D printed a robotic hand in one go via the slow-curing plastics method. (Image Credit: ETH Zurich/Thomas Buchner) For the first time, ETH Zurich and US startup Inkbit researchers created a new laser scanning technique to 3D print a robotic...
    • 22 Nov 2023
  • Researchers Create a New Way to Make Laser Pulses More Powerful

    Catwell
    Catwell
    Pulse compression in plasma. The pulse’s high-frequency components  (front) and low-frequency components (back)  reflect at various positions, causing the laser pulse to compress. (Image Credit: Nature Photonics) UK and South Korean...
    • 17 Nov 2023
  • Scientists Have Discovered a Hidden Landscape Beneath an Ice Sheet in Antarctica

    Catwell
    Catwell
    Scientists discovered a landscape hidden underneath an ice sheet in Antarctica. (Image Credit: Stewart Jamieson) Scientists recently announced they found a hidden landscape featuring valleys and hills underneath a 1.6-mile deep ice sheet in Antarcti...
    • 15 Nov 2023
  • Scientists Discovery a Virus Latching on Another Virus

    Catwell
    Catwell
    UMBC researchers used a transmission electron microscope to capture images of a satellite virus attaching to a helper virus. (Image Credit: Tagide deCarvalho) Some viruses (satellites) typically rely on the host organism and another virus (helper)...
    • 7 Nov 2023
  • The Cause of Mars’ Biggest Quake Revealed - and The Sensors Used

    Catwell
    Catwell
    NASA’s InSight lander recorded the largest Marsquake on May 4th, 2022. (Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) On May 4th, 2022, NASA’s InSight lander recorded the largest seismic event on Mars --- a 4.7 magnitude quake call...
    • 25 Oct 2023
  • Magnetoelectric Material Could Help With Nerve Damage Recovery

    Catwell
    Catwell
    The team’s magnetoelectric material stimulates neurons and repairs severed nerves. (Image Credit: Robinson Lab/Rice University) Rice University researchers have engineered the first magnetoelectric material that can treat nerve damage or neuro...
    • 19 Oct 2023
  • The Vela Pulsar Has Released a Staggering Amount of Energy

    Catwell
    Catwell
    The team believes the Vela pulsar emitted 20 TeVs of radiation energy. (Image Credit: Science Communication Lab for DESY) On October 5th, scientists revealed that High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS) data shows the Vela Pulsar released a staggeri...
    • 16 Oct 2023
  • Tsunami Warning System Upgraded

    Catwell
    Catwell
    Map of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai underwater volcano in the Pacific Ocean. (Image CredutL The National Map, USGS) On January 15th, 2022, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai underwater volcano erupted, prompting rare tsunami tidal ...
    • 6 Oct 2023
  • Anser Cubesats Launch Into Orbit to Monitor the Iberian Waters

    Catwell
    Catwell
    The ANSER team installed the CubeSat aboard the Vega spacecraft. (Image Credit: ESA-CNES-Arianespace/Optique video du CSG) Spain’s ANSER (Advanced Nanosatellite Systems for Earth-observation Research) CubeSats trio has launched into orbit at t...
    • 5 Oct 2023
  • Cheap Desalination Device Turns Saltwater into Drinkable Water

    Catwell
    Catwell
    A ten-stage prototype is placed in a boat-like reservoir. (Image Credit: Jintong Gao and Zhenyuan Xu) MIT and Shanghai Jiao Tong University engineers developed a solar-powered desalination system designed to convert saltwater into safe drinking...
    • 3 Oct 2023
  • The Story: After Seven Long Years, NASA's OSIRIS-REx Returned the Sample Capsule to Earth

    Catwell
    Catwell
    Image showing OSISRIS-Rex getting ready to touch the surface of Bennu. (Image Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona) NASA's OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer) spacecraft final...
    • 29 Sep 2023
  • Robot Storm Chasers Deploy Globally

    Catwell
    Catwell
    Water gliders are often deployed underwater to help study a hurricane. (Image Credit: University of Georgia Skidaway Institute of Oceanography) Weather robots like torpedo-shaped watercraft gliders created by the University of Georgia’s Skida...
    • 27 Sep 2023
<>
element14 Community

element14 is the first online community specifically for engineers. Connect with your peers and get expert answers to your questions.

  • Members
  • Learn
  • Technologies
  • Challenges & Projects
  • Products
  • Store
  • About Us
  • Feedback & Support
  • FAQs
  • Terms of Use
  • Privacy Policy
  • Legal and Copyright Notices
  • Sitemap
  • Cookies

An Avnet Company © 2026 Premier Farnell Limited. All Rights Reserved.

Premier Farnell Ltd, registered in England and Wales (no 00876412), registered office: Farnell House, Forge Lane, Leeds LS12 2NE.

Follow element14

  • X
  • Facebook
  • linkedin
  • YouTube