This low-cost orange-sized sensor could be what self-driving cars need to hit public roads

A team of engineers at Rice University has developed a tiny new sensor that could dramatically improve the safety of self-driving cars on public roads. This is a compact, low-power millimeter-wave ...
Hackaday

Simple D-STAR Transceiver Uses Inexpensive Hardware

Yeckel] recently put the finishing touches on an ambitious implementation of a simple D-STAR (Digital Smart Technologies for Amateur Radio) transceiver using some very accessible and affordable ...
Digital Camera World

The camera in your pocket was actually made to go to outer space. NASA explains how the sensor inside billions of devices was first developed for space missions

The camera in your pocket is hiding tech that was originally made for outer space. The sensor that is now widely used in most smartphone cameras, compact cameras, and mirrorless cameras – the ...
Nature

Why ‘quantum proteins’ could be the next big thing in biology

Crystal jellyfish have an eerie beauty: thanks to a natural protein, they emit a faint green glow. For decades, researchers have used that green fluorescent protein and similar molecules to light up ...