We’ve probably all had a few conversations with people who hold eccentric scientific ideas, and most of the time they yield nothing more than frustration and perhaps a headache. In [Bertrand ...

You know those old cliche that the younger generations have begun to cynically despise: “follow your dreams!” “You can be anything you put your mind to!” — well, ...

Today’s pressurized water reactors (PWRs) are marvels of nuclear fission technology that enable gigawatt-scale power stations ...

One of the hardest things about owning a classic car is finding replacement parts. Especially if the car is particularly old ...

There’s just something about an analog synthesizer. You’d think that for electronic music, digital sampling would have ...

We think of radios as audio devices, but for people who are visually impaired, it can be difficult to tell which channel you ...

Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) is one of those things that sounds like it must be woo when you first hear of it. “A trickle of current that can deal with chronic pain ...

A Crookes radiometer, despite what many explanations claim, does not work because of radiation pressure. When light strikes ...

That MacOS (formerly OS X) has BSD roots is a well-known fact, with its predecessor NeXTSTEP and its XNU kernel derived from 4.3BSD. Subsequent releases of OS X/MacOS then proceeded to happily ...

One of our newer writers, [Tyler August], recently wrote a love letter to plasma TV technology. Sitting between the ...

We absolutely adore inspired labor-of-love tales such as this one. [Alastair] wanted to build a synth for his daughter’s ...

There’s more to making an oscillator than meets the eye, and [lcamtuf] is here with a good primer on the subject. It starts ...