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

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 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 ...

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

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, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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