Modern smartphones are packed with a wide range of sensors, and their magnetometer can successfully identify certain kinds of ...

As a kid, metal detectors seemed like great fun. Every commercial I saw beckoned with tales of buried treasure “right in my own back yard” – a bounty hard for any kid to pass up. In reality, the ...

ROBOT BOMB DETECTOR Los Angeles International Airport has acquired a mobile robot for bomb detection and disposal duties and will deploy it at LAX this fall. The Board of Airport Commissioners ...

Finding buried treasure is one of those things that's on my to-do list but I never get around to catching up with, so I should probably give seasoned seeker John Corney a call; he's fashioned a remote ...