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, ...

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 ...

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

That MacOS (formerly OS X) has BSD roots is a well-known fact, with its predecessor NeXTSTEP and its XNU kernel derived from 4.3BSD. Subsequent releases of OS X/MacOS then proceeded to happily ...

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 ...

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 ...

There’s more to making an oscillator than meets the eye, and [lcamtuf] is here with a good primer on the subject. It starts ...

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