Morning Overview on MSN

60,000 feet up, NASA hunts minerals powering phones and EVs

From smartphones and gaming consoles to electric SUVs, the devices that define modern life depend on a hidden supply chain of ...
Regtechtimes on MSN

NASA uses AVIRIS-5 to map critical minerals across the American West for industry needs

NASA has taken to the skies with a groundbreaking new tool designed to uncover critical minerals that power modern technology ...
PRIMETIMER

NASA hunts critical tech minerals from 60,000 feet above Earth

NASA is using a high-altitude ER-2 aircraft and the AVIRIS-5 sensor to map critical minerals across the American West, supporting research on resources used in electronics, clean energy, and national ...
El Defensor Chieftain

Helicopter survey to map aquifers set to begin Jan. 5 over Socorro County

A low‑flying helicopter carrying a large electromagnetic sensor will begin surveying parts of Socorro County on Jan. 5 as New ...
EurekAlert!

From global open multi-source data to network-wide traffic flow: A large-scale case study across multiple cities

To address the trade-off between accuracy and cross-city generalization in traffic flow estimation, a research team from The ...
Governing

Can Detroit Oversee Gunshot Sensors Without Knowing Where They Are?

As the city weighs renewing its multimillion-dollar ShotSpotter contract, officials acknowledge they can’t verify sensor locations, raising oversight and transparency concerns.
Phys.org

Watching DNA repair in real time with a live-cell sensor

Cancer research, drug safety testing and aging biology may all gain a major boost from a new fluorescent sensor developed at Utrecht University. This new tool allows scientists to watch DNA damage and ...
New Atlas

Bike-mounted sensor could boost the mapping of safe cycling routes

Studies have shown that many people don't commute by bike due mainly to a fear of being hit by cars. A new bike-mounted proximity sensor has been designed to help such folks, by objectively telling ...
GeekWire

UW develops bike-mounted sensor system to track close-passing cars and map safer cycling routes

A University of Washington-led team has developed a system, called ProxiCycle, that uses a sensor plugged into handlebars to log when a passing car comes too close to a cyclist. Above, the team tests ...
Science Daily

Scientists map tongue's sweet sensor, may lead to new ways to curb sugar cravings

Scientists have mapped the 3-D structure of the human sweet taste receptor, the molecular machine that allows us to taste sweet things. This could lead to the discovery of new regulators of the ...
EurekAlert!

Scientists map tongue’s sweet sensor, may lead to new ways to curb sugar cravings

Cryo-EM map of the human sweet taste receptor (blue and green) changing shape as it binds a molecule that tastes sweet (red and green). NEW YORK — Our attraction to sugar has grown to an unhealthy ...
IEEE

RGB-D Sensor-Aided Radio Map Estimation Using Materials Classification

Abstract: This letter proposes a novel RGB-Depth (RGB-D) sensor-aided radio map estimation framework using materials classification. Ray-tracing simulators for radio map estimation require expensive ...