Search results for spy devices

Ecology Apr 10, 2024

Smart vest turns fish into underwater spies, providing a glimpse into aquatic life like never before

Traditional techniques for observing fish behavior, largely dependent on vision-based systems, face substantial limitations, such as a confined range of observation and a limited duration of operation underwater. In response ...

Plants & Animals Mar 20, 2024

New spy cameras reveal surprising behaviors of chacma baboons

An ingenious new camera collar has offered researchers from our Anthropology department an unprecedented glimpse into the secret lives of wild baboons in South Africa.

Optics & Photonics Feb 7, 2024

Perovskite single-pixel detector for efficient extraction of meta-images in complex environments

Information technology plays a pivotal role in contemporary society, influencing aspects such as social communication, audio-visual entertainment in daily life, and the integration of cloud computing and the Internet of Things ...

Astronomy Sep 1, 2023

Pentagon unveils new website for reporting (and learning about) UFOs

The Pentagon has opened up a new portal for professionals to submit reports about UFOs—now officially known as unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAPs—and for the rest of us to find out about the reports that have been ...

Ecology May 31, 2023

Photos from the field: Spying on Antarctic moss using drones, MossCam, smart sensors and AI

The Antarctic continent conjures visions of white ice and blue sky. But not far from Australia's Casey Station, 3,880km due south of Perth, moss beds emerge verdant and green.

Optics & Photonics Mar 13, 2023

High-performance photon detectors to combat spies in the quantum computing age

How can we combat data theft, which is a real issue for society? Quantum physics has the solution. Its theories make it possible to encode information (a qubit) in single particles of light (a photon) and to circulate them ...

Space Exploration Feb 14, 2023

Rumors swirl about balloons, UFOs as officials stay mum

Maybe they came from China. Maybe from somewhere farther away. A lot farther away.

Social Sciences Feb 10, 2023

Forget spy balloons, the world of surveillance has tried everything from schoolchildren to trained cats

The Chinese "spy balloon" shot down over the United States has brought the seemingly strange methods of surveillance and espionage into news headlines. Balloons have long been used for espionage—and not just for surveillance, ...

Social Sciences Jan 19, 2023

Dozens of US schools, universities move to ban TikTok

A growing number of public schools and colleges in the U.S. are moving to ban TikTok—the popular Chinese-owned social media app that allows users to share short videos.

Optics & Photonics Jan 11, 2023

A new ultrafast camera with multiple applications

In their laboratory at the Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications Research Centre of the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), Professor Jinyang Liang and his colleagues are developing a new ultrahigh-speed ...

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