Cows with freedom of choice

"Dairy barn of the future" now published scientifically

30-Oct-2025 - Family herds with access to pasture instead of dreary everyday life in the barn with social stress: a national research consortium involving the Neubrandenburg University of Applied Sciences, the Friedrich Loeffler Institute (FLI) and the Research Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN) shows how ...

New sensor identifies gases more accurately with a ‘speed camera’ system

Modular platform enables a wide range of applications: from early detection of diabetes and leaks in the chemical industry to freshness monitoring of fruit and vegetables

01-Oct-2025 - From breath analysis to explosive detection: these applications require reliable electronic ‘noses’. Unfortunately, current technology often falls short. That is why researchers at KU Leuven have developed a flexible sensor platform that not only detects gases, but also records their speed—like a ...

Lithuanian chemists developed oxygen sensors that can be applied from food packaging to cancer diagnostics

Record-breaking sensitivity

16-Sep-2025 - Researchers at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania, have developed new organic compounds that act as highly sensitive oxygen sensors. These sensors can accurately detect even the slightest amounts of oxygen in the environment – information that is crucial in situations where oxygen ...

Start-up brings quantum sensor to market maturity

SpinMagIC receives EXIST research transfer funding

09-Dec-2024 - Whether beer, coffee beans, yoghurt or lubricating oil: a device that fits easily on a hand can measure the shelf life of substances. The idea: to bring the technology to the food industry. As a spin-off, the spin-off from the University of Stuttgart receives funding from the EXIST research ...

E-nose has mastered the art of detecting spoiled meat

19-Aug-2024 - Research has shown that spoiled food causes about 250 health problems, including poisoning, allergies, and even cancer. Today, food spoilage is detected by very time-consuming bacteriological analysis. A team from Skoltech, the Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems of RAS and ...

AI-controlled production of soft fruits using new sensor systems

16-Aug-2024 - Obst- und Gemüse-Absatzgenossenschaft Nordbaden eG and Obstgroßmarkt Mittelbaden eG have commissioned Fraunhofer UMSICHT with the further development of a new cultivation method. The "inBerry" project, which has now been launched, focuses on a data-driven and year-round production method for ...

Can an artificial nose detect food spoilage?

07-Sep-2023 - Researchers have developed an energy-efficient computing-based chip with smell-sensing units that can detect food spoilage and provides real-time conditions continuously throughout the spoilage process. The system is described in a study published in Advanced Science. Other electronic noses, or ...

Paper-based biodegradable and eco-friendly sensor for sensing the food status

Eco-friendly and biodegradable electronics that is fitting the worldwide ‘Green New Deal’ trend, big contribution is expected not only in daily life but food industry

27-Oct-2022 - The research group led by Prof. Seung Hwan Ko, in Dept. of Mechanical Engineering in Seoul National University, developed the technology for sensing food temperature and freshness, based on laser-induced graphene on eco-friendly and biodegradable commercial paper. Recently, environment and food ...

Toward a fully edible sensor showing if frozen food has previously thawed

17-Oct-2022 - When you’re standing in the frozen food aisle, it’s nearly impossible to know whether that Salisbury steak has thawed and refrozen — a process with potentially harmful consequences. So, researchers reporting in ACS Sensors have designed a food-grade device from edible materials, including table ...

Nano-sensor detects pesticides on fruit in minutes

The new nano-sensors employ a 1970s discovery

08-Jun-2022 - Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have developed a tiny sensor for detecting pesticides on fruit in just a few minutes. The technique, described as a proof-of-concept in a paper in the journal Advanced Science, uses flame-sprayed nanoparticles made from silver to increase the signal ...