I have been getting lots of questions about measuring the moisture content of a hay crop prior to baling. The moisture content needs to be below 18% before making a round bale. But estimating moisture ...

Moisture meters, essential tools for quality control in a woodshop, measure the amount of water in lumber. This lets you determine if it is at a suitable content level for the intended use. This is ...

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Researchers have developed a method capable of measuring the moisture content of agricultural products within one second using an electromagnetic wave. An object can be measured regardless of its size ...

While it's important to keep crops irrigated, you certainly don't want to overwater them – particularly in regions where water is scarce. With that in mind, scientists have now developed a method of ...

There is increasing pressure on today’s microelectronics industry to produce smaller, more reliable, more powerful devices that are also cheaper to manufacture. The packaging system is one key feature ...

[Andy] is getting his garden up and running. This year it’s been pretty cold so he decided to get small plastic domed tunnel which acts as a mini greenhouse. To help monitor that environment he built ...

Photo: CU-Boulder aerospace engineering sciences Professor Kristine Larson. A research team led by the University of Colorado at Boulder has found a clever way to use traditional GPS satellite signals ...

A group of researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has unveiled a pioneering method to measure soil moisture in the vadose zone-the shallow region between the earth's surface ...