Drone-mounted lab monitors fertilizer runoff in real time

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Dec 17, 2025, 1:00 pm183 ptsTrendingTop
What if, instead of taking a water or soil sample to the lab, you could take the lab to the sample? That's what a team of researchers reporting in ACS Sensors did with a new nitrate-monitoring "lab-on-a-drone" system. The drone allows for easy, real-time water sampling and analysis in hard-to-reach areas like…

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