Barcodes provide a great solution for tying real-world items to associated computer data. An item with a barcode not only helps link associated data, but it also eliminates the need for a data entry ...

Today, when you recycle a plastic container, it goes to a material recovery facility, where it must be identified and sorted. Facilities typically rely on imprecise older technology to try to figure ...

Nearly 60% of the 212 billion mail pieces the U.S. Postal Service processes annually is direct mail. But with countless millions of people moving each year, just try to imagine how much marketing ...

Scientists have developed a pioneering new technique to barcode individual cells more accurately and efficiently - which could help pave the way for quicker disease diagnosis. A team of researchers ...

With funding from the EU research and innovation project S3FOOD, a team of biotechnology and blockchain specialists in Greece is using olive oil DNA to generate a fraudproof genetic barcode for each ...