Mbira sensors in the news

Thanks to a number of news and professional organizations that featured our mbira sensors, including:

• An episode of the BBC World Service program “Science in Action,” in which host Roland Pease interviewed us about our mbira sensors.

• An episode of the Scientific American podcast “60-Second Science” by Christopher Intagliata.

• The National Science Foundation featured our mbira sensors in their “4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About This Week” program.

• “A sensor inspired by an African thumb piano could root out bogus medicines,” a story by Maria Temming in Science News.

• “This simple musical instrument can detect poison,” an article by David Grossman in Popular Mechanics.

• “Musical instrument goes flat in presence of adulterated medicine,” a writeup by Chris Lee on Ars Technica.

• “Sounding a sour note can save people from a sour stomach (or worse),” a post by Roger Cheng on Hackaday

• “Musical instrument turned into liquid density sensor,” a news item by Emma Stoye in the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Chemistry World.

• “Modern version of ancient musical instrument detects poisons,” a story by Ben Coxworth in New Atlas.

• “Sensors that are literally ‘music to one’s ears,’” a press release and video by the American Chemical Society.

• “Musical sensor shows bad medicine plays false note,” an excellent story by Holly Ober on the UC Riverside homepage.