With the worldwide coronavirus top of mind, scientists continue to develop new technology that can provide evidence-based guidance to quickly and accurately pinpoint potential environmental dangers.

Advances in sensor materials and optoelectronics have enabled novel optical sensors for applications in life sciences, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and more. Compared with electrochemical sensing ...

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has shown that the world needs technology that can quickly and accurately identify invisible dangers, including harmful substances or airborne environmental pollutants.

Engineers at MIT have designed a colorimetric sensor food sensor made from an array of silk microneedles that pierces plastic packaging to sample food for signs of spoilage and contamination.