In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have detected the building blocks of life in ice outside the Milky Way for the ...

The findings, detailed in the Astrophysical Journal Letters on October 20, 2025, by a team led by University of Maryland and ...

Block MEMS, a developer of quantum cascade laser-based infrared detection systems, has won a $9.8 million contract with the US Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) to develop a ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered a trove of complex organic molecules frozen in ice around a ...

EDGEWOOD, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Smiths Detection Inc., a global leader in threat detection and security technology, alongside Block MEMS, LLC (Block) has been selected by The Defense Threat Reduction ...

A fantastic new discovery has given astronomy an unexpected window into the formation of life-precursor molecules in an ...

Proximity sensing based on infrared signal acquisition and processing typically requires two parts to form the optical front end: an infrared LED and an optical sensor. The infrared LED beams infrared ...

SOUTHBOROUGH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Block Engineering, LLC announced today that its PORTHOS (TM) automated chemical detection system has been deployed with the Japan Disaster Management Agency at ...