If you were to walk into most of the world’s hackerspaces, it’s likely that the most frequent big-ticket tool you’ll find ...

Turning trash into art is something we undoubtedly all admire. [Davis DeWitt] did just that with a massive mural made ...

What’s life without a little mystery? There’s one less rolling around after historians finally identified a donated mystery ...

Although humanity was hoping for a more optimistic robotic future in the post-war era, with media reflecting that sentiment ...

Phosphor-based displays like CRTs rely on the phosphor to emit light for a set amount of time after being activated, allowing ...

By default, bash is the most popular command language simply because it’s included in most *nix operating systems.

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Imagine you own a weather station. Then imagine that after some years have passed, you’ve had to replace one of the sensors ...

Most of us associate echolocation with bats. These amazing creatures are able to chirp at frequencies beyond the limit of our ...

For a lot of electrical and mechanical machines, there are nominal and peak ratings for energy output or input. If you’re in marketing or advertising, you’ll typically look at the peak ...

If you live near Central Park or some other local chess hub, you’re likely never short of opponents for a good game. If you ...

There’s an old joke that they want to send an exploratory mission to the sun, but to save money, they are going at night. The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter has gotten as close ...