We aren’t sure why, but [Lev Chizhov] and some other researchers have found a way to make you smell things by hitting your ...

In our modern world full of planned obsolescence helping to fuel cycles of consumerism, the thing that really lets companies ...

An interesting trend over the last year or two has been the emergence of modern retrocomputer PCs, recreations of classic PC ...

The BBC wanted to show everyone how a computer might be used in schools. A program aired in 1979 asks, “Will Computers ...

Remember the Key Bridge collapse? With as eventful a year as 2025 has been, we wouldn’t blame anyone for forgetting that in ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

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

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

In this session of Logic Noise, we’ll be playing around with the voltage-controlled oscillator from a 4046 phase-locked loop chip, and using it to make “musical” pitches. It’s a lot of bang for the ...

There are few things that can keep a certain kind of mechanically-inclined mind entranced as well as a marble run, and few structures that look as interestingly organic as procedurally-generated ...