Samples taken from the space-returned piece of asteroid Ryugu were collected and prepared under strict anti-contamination ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Analog dials used to be a pretty common way of displaying information on test equipment and in industrial applications. They ...

MindYourDecisions] presents a Babylonian tablet dating back to around 1800 BC that shows that the hypotenuse of a unit square is the square root of two or 1.41421. How did they know that? We ...