In a new paper published in Nature Photonics, researchers at Columbia Engineering have discovered that the thin-film metallic resistor routinely used to thermally tune photonic devices to the desired ...

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If you think smart home, you might not imagine a temperature sensor, but there's a lot you can achieve with one of those and ...

Learn how to use the Core Temp application to monitor your CPU temperature and prevent overheating on Windows 11.

[Miroslav Hancar] wasn’t satisfied with abusing just a single component for our Component Abuse Challenge. He decided to abuse a whole assembly, in particular, some LED candles. In this project, LEDs ...

One of the joys of writing up the entries for the 2025 Component Abuse Challenge has come in finding all the different alternative uses for the humble transistor. This building block of all modern ...

Infrared sensors, which act as the "seeing" component in devices such as LiDAR for autonomous vehicles, 3D face recognition ...

A fever is the body’s way of saying it is fighting off an infection. Small fevers may be harmless, but chronic or extreme fevers can require medical attention. “Listen to your body — fever is a ...

The smart thermometer checks your temperature, as well as your cardiac and pulmonary health, in under a minute.

Wearable sweat biosensors enable the non-invasive, real-time monitoring of hormones. Here, we highlight the development and commercialization of a wearable technology that can measure hormone levels ...

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