Olimex-HoT (Home of Things) is a lightweight Smart Home solution designed to run on low-end hardware (128MB RAM, 128MB flash) ...

Hydrogen plays an important role in society’s energy transition. For the technology to be used on a broad scale, effective ...

What use is a sensor that's wrong?

Researchers from Iran’s University of Tabriz have developed a novel PV module cooling method that uses twisted tape in water-cooled channels to enhance heat transfer. “Using twisted tape inside the ...

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 ...

Extreme heat can be hard on your heart. As temperatures rise, the heart pumps faster to move blood toward the skin to cool the body. This added strain on the cardiovascular system can increase the ...

If you are living in one of many areas of the U.S. currently experiencing a heat wave, your outdoor thermometer may say it's in the 90s, but your local weather station tells you it feels like triple ...

Some hot days feel even worse thanks to high humidity, trapped heat and dew points. Cities are especially vulnerable. By Nazaneen Ghaffar Nazaneen Ghaffar is a reporter on The Times’s weather team. It ...

Extreme levels of heat and humidity are forecast to spread across the country over the next two weeks, blanketing the Southwest, Midwest, and East Coast with high temperatures beginning this June 19 ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Each exhaled breath carries distinct signatures of human activity - quick and shallow during exercise, deep and regular in sleep, irregular while speaking. These breathing ...

HomeKit has changed how I interact with many of the rooms in my house. While lighting and cameras tend to have the spotlight for most people as they can easily see the impact, environment monitoring ...