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detection

[dih-tek-shuhn] / dɪˈtɛk ʃən /


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"It's an exciting advancement that brings us closer to realizing the dream of a single assay for universal disease detection."

From Science Daily Aug. 11, 2026

Quantum materials could reshape fields as varied as high-performance computing, secure communication, sensitive detection, and energy production.

From Science Daily Aug. 8, 2026

Forty-one percent of long-form posts and 30% of all comments posted publicly on LinkedIn from April to June were entirely AI-generated, according to an analysis of nearly 57,000 items from AI detection startup Pangram Labs.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

Many ships have been "going dark" when crossing the strait, meaning they turn off their transponder to avoid detection.

From BBC Aug. 3, 2026

It has been deployed also by the military for mine detection, to search for lost submarines and, in one highly publicized case, to search for a hydrogen bomb lost at sea.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

A spokesperson for California’s Dept. of Pesticide Regulation, which oversees pesticide use, said the EWG report looked at detections of the PFAS, but the state “looks at how the detections compare to federal tolerance levels.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 30, 2026

The unwanted beam copies, called grating lobes, can confuse the sensor and generate false detections.

From Science Daily Jul. 22, 2026

The rapid increase in gravitational wave detections is changing the way astronomers study the Universe.

From Science Daily Jul. 2, 2026

Marine mammals have also been affected, with some detections in other animals such as cats, goats, alpacas and pigs.

From Barron's Jun. 24, 2026

One game was a paper with lines in all detections and lots of boxs.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes




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