If you need a micro-manipulator, you probably already have a good idea of what it does. For example, you might be moving a ...

Refrigeration has been a challenge for humanity since the start. Ancient civilizations in dry climates like Persia and Egypt ...

As Director of the Software Engineering Division at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, Margaret Hamilton was responsible for ...

As the legacy AM broadcast bands fade away, what happens to the millions of devices built to receive them? Many of them will ...

Large language models (LLMs) output language, but they are commonly tasked with making a decision or classification of some ...

As NASA continues humanity’s slow march back to the Moon, different pieces of the puzzle of establishing a more permanent base there are falling into place. One of these pieces is the the ...

The sad reality is that all consumer electronics are going to be e-waste eventually. [Cory Whitesell] was determined his old NEC ProSpeed 286 Laptop wouldn’t meet that fate until absolutely ...

If you haven’t heard of Minecraft, well, we hope you enjoyed your rip-van-winkle nap this past decade or so. For everyone else, you probably at least know that this is a multiplayer, open wor… ...

We imagine that electroplating is like making PC boards or soldering surface-mount chips. Before you’ve done it, it seems like a lot. Afterward, you can’t remember why it was such a big deal.

Flying and driving simulators can go as far as money will take you, and at some point it might end up being cheaper to buy a plane or race car than to keep adding capabilities to some of the sim rigs ...

There are some classic fonts which appeared in one place and became almost iconic, yet never made it into the digital age.

One fascinating thing about a pulsed laser is that, though the average power may be measured in watts or milliwatts, the peak power can easily reach millions of times that. This happens even in normal ...