Humans have forever been using all manner of techniques to better secure the food we need to sustain our lives. The practice ...

Over the course of evolution microorganisms have evolved pathways to break down many materials. The challenge with the many ...

If you need to cool something, the gold standard is using a gas compressor arrangement. Of course, there are definite downsides to that, like weight, power consumption, and vibrations. There are ...

The Rigol oscilloscopes have a long history of modifications and hacks, and this latest from [Matthias] is an impressive addition; he’s been working on adding a function generator to the ...

In the comments of a recent article, the question came up as to where to find projects from the really smart kids the ...

From the very dawn of the personal computing era, the PC and Apple platforms have gone very different ways. IBM compatibles surged in popularity, while Apple was able to more closely guard the ...

If you have any empathy at all for those of us in the journalistic profession, have some pity for the poor editor at the ...

Ever have one of those ideas that’s just so silly, you just need to run with it? [Chris] from Sound Workshop ran into that when he had the idea that became the Pneumatone: a woodwind ...

Commercial 3D printers keep getting faster and faster, but we can confidently say that none of them is nearly as fast as [Jan]’s Minuteman printer, so named for its goal of eventually printing a ...

Anthropic has had an eventful couple weeks, and we have two separate write-ups to cover. The first is a vulnerability in the ...

Gaming on a Nintendo DS can bring back great memories of long car trips from the past. But looking back, we remember wishing ...

X-ray crystallography, like mass spectroscopy and nuclear spectroscopy, is an extremely useful material characterization ...