A U.K. research project will equip dairy cows with the same sensor used in Wii controllers to alert farmers by text if they're getting sick or they're, um, in heat. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer ...

Each year, a single cow can belch about 200 pounds of methane. The powerful greenhouse gas is 27 times more potent at trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. For decades, scientists and ...

Tracking a cow's health is important for farmers and raisers who want to make sure that their animals are free from diseases and other conditions. To effectively monitor how cows behave, a group of ...

AT&T is using its 5G network to power a unique type of connected device designed specifically for dairy farmers. The hardware comes from smaXtec, which describes it as a small smart sensor that cows ...

A flick of the wrist. A click of the phone. That’s all it takes to access a moment-by-moment review of your body’s functions, if you’re among the nearly one-third of Americans who own a smartwatch.

Humans aren’t the only ones experimenting with wearable smart masks. A Bloomberg report says agricultural giant Cargill will start selling masks for cows that can cut methane emissions from their ...

Using smart technology to monitor the health, reproductivity, location, and environmental conditions of cattle can help with food safety and supply chain efficiency, but this monitoring adds energy ...