Tag: Lincoln Laboratory
Solar Water Purifier Is Serving 600 Puerto Ricans Daily
Puerto Ricans in the coastal town of Loíza stood in a line that stretched seven blocks, waiting hours for bags of ice and bottles of water....
Monitoring Activity in the Geosynchronous Belt
In the darkness of 2 a.m. on Aug. 26, the sky over Cape Canaveral, Florida, lit up with the bright plume of a Minotaur rocket...
NASA CubeSat to Test Miniaturized Weather Satellite Technology
Behind every weather forecast—from your local, five-day prediction to a late-breaking hurricane track update—are the satellites that make them possible. Government agencies depend on...
Developing Sensors to Defend Aircraft Against Lasers
Laser strikes, the aiming of high-power laser pointers at aircraft, are a growing safety concern for pilots and aircraft passengers. They pose numerous dangers to pilots, including...
New Mass Spectrometer Will Help Develop Better Training for Bomb-Sniffing Dogs
Canine teams have long been considered the gold standard for finding concealed explosives. To validate this reputation, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science...
Monitoring Metabolic Energy Expenditure, Health, and Fitness with a Breath Analyzer
The U.S. military has great interest in more comprehensive measurement and tracking of metabolism, both for optimizing the performance of warfighters under demanding physical...
Engineers Design Drones That Can Stay Aloft for Five Days
In the event of a natural disaster that disrupts phone and Internet systems over a wide area, autonomous aircraft could potentially hover over affected...
Makerspaces could enable widespread adoption of microfluidics
Lincoln Laboratory researchers propose an alternative to expensive microfluidics fabrication facilities.
Foliage-Penetrating Ladar Technology May Improve Border Surveillance
The United States shares 5,525 miles of land border with Canada and 1,989 miles with Mexico. Monitoring these borders, which is the responsibility of...
Lincoln Laboratory Lends a 3-D-Printed Hand
Cyborg beast, phoenix, talon — although these names seem fitting for superhero characters, they are actually names for devices that make people feel like...