Autonomous mobile robots rely on sensors to navigate through their environment.

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One problem with every type of eyeglasses, contact lenses, and even the plastic lenses implanted after cataract removal is that they all have a fixed focal length. Auto-focus cameras don't, but they operate on a principle that wouldn't work for a pair of spectacles. Until now.

It's hard to overestimate the impact of MEMS—or LabVIEW—on sensor applications.

A Georgia Tech research team is using a modified atomic force microscope (AFM) to study the role of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) in cystic fibrosis (CF). Although a link has been discovered between elevated levels of ATP, a chemical associated with energy transport, and CF, quantitative measurements at the cell surface that might help explain the trigger mechanism have proved elusive.

A Georgia Tech research team is using a modified atomic force microscope (AFM) to study the role of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) in cystic fibrosis (CF). Although a link has been discovered between elevated levels of ATP, a chemical associated with energy transport, and CF, quantitative measurements at the cell surface that might help explain the trigger mechanism have proved elusive.

Quest Diagnostics Inc. has launched the first of its Leumeta cancer testing assays, designed as an alternative to bone marrow biopsies (which everyone would prefer to avoid).

CBC News was one of the outlets reporting on a new sensor under development at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. The technology uses light, as well as semiconductive material particles, to image objects and enable an astoundingly delicate sense of touch—to distinguish, for instance, among letters on a coin. The report is drawn from a paper published in the journal Science.

According to Imago Scientific Instruments Corp., the decreasing feature sizes used in the microelectronics industry are challenging failure analysis engineers to analyze materials on an atomic scale. For example, manufacturers of read heads want to understand why some heads, which are composed of multiple layers as thin as 5 Å (0.5 nm), are working well while others are not.