Once in a while we're asked to spread the word about a tech transfer program or a state fund for worthy technical startups or something similar. The most recent of these can be summed up as follows: Sensor and technology companies! The U.S. Army needs your help!More>>

Last year, NIST published a draft report on the first of its three phases for the Smart Grid project, that epic endeavor to update the U.S. electrical infrastructure. Phase One involves the generation of a high-level conceptual reference model for the project, identifying existing standards we can...More>>

Welcome to 2010 which will be, I hope, an improvement over 2009! This month's collection of interesting research results includes glitter-sized solar cells, an optical magnetic field sensor, and detecting plastic anti-personnel mines by measuring 3D temperature gradients.More>>

This is the very last Sensors Weekly of 2009, a year that marked Sensors 25th Anniversary and saw us launch our new Web site. On the other hand, 2009 was also marked by a still weak global economy. The unemployment rate is scary high, business is still not back to normal, and an awful lot of people...More>>

So, the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference is happening as I write and while I would <I>love</I> to think that concrete and useful change will be a result, and that the world will end up with a real and workable plan to deal with climate change in a way that is equitable and yet fosters...More>>

In this month's collection of interesting news from the world of research and development we've got a pressure-sensitive artificial skin based on optical sensors, energy harvesting from a wider range of frequencies, and bendy yet robust antennas.More>>

This week has seen the FedEx and IBM talking about plans for wireless sensor networking. Not that that's what they call it, mind. They're more likely to talk about smart packages or smart infrastructure, but at heart, both reflect an integration of sensors, communications, and processing to enable...More>>

This month we have chemical sensors designed to fit inside your cell phone, contact lenses that double as heads-up displays, and surface plasmon resonance sensors with multiple channels.More>>

While there are many announcements about breakthroughs in the synthesis and manipulation of carbon nanotubes and other carbon-based nanostructures, the ability to grow silicon nanomaterials gets less press. Partly that's because it's much more challenging to make them. However, French researchers...More>>

If you've visited the Sensors Web site this week you'll have noticed that things look a little…different. Cleaner, better organized, a bit more streamlined, and easier to navigate. I'd like to invite you to take a look around and let us know what you think.More>>