After a day of office work and long commutes, your apartment should feel like a haven from the hustle and bustle. Start by using soft, low lighting to ease you into your nighttime routine. Warm wood ...

Credit: Duanni Huang, University of California Santa Barbara Turning light into magnetic insight The new magnetometer was developed as part of the U.S. National Science Foundation's Quantum Sensing ...

IKEA has launched its new Gömpyssling LED light with sensor. It's a motion-activated light which automatically switches on when you open a cupboard or step into a space, then turns itself off after ...

This post is brought to you in paid partnership with AUVON. They plug directly into your outlets, add a warm backlit glow, and automatically adjust to your environment so you’re not wasting energy or ...

Just about every “getting started with microcontrollers” kit, Arduino or otherwise, includes an ultrasonic distance sensor module. Given the power of microcontrollers these days, it was only a matter ...

Unlike typical opsins, the anthozoan-specific opsin II group (ASO-II opsins) in reef-building corals use chloride ions (Cl⁻) instead of amino acids as counterions. Corals may lack eyes, but they are ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Programming is a key transferable skill within the chemical sciences with applications ...

New MotionAware tech may use Hue’s Zigbee radios to detect motion. Plus, there’s a new video doorbell and outdoor lights on the way. New MotionAware tech may use Hue’s Zigbee radios to detect motion.

In what follows, we will refer to these collections as “Breadboards,” “Tools,” and “Components” for short. For example, when working with semiconductors such as transistors, diodes (including ...

More efficient, smaller, and lighter traction inverters for EVs can be created by integrating current sensors directly into SiC-based power modules. Silicon Austria Labs (SAL), a power semiconductor ...

Our eyes take in the dazzling greens of dense forests, blues of alpine lakes, and reds and purples of sunset. Yet there’s an entire world hidden from sight. Our eyes only perceive a narrow sliver of ...