Collaborate Disseminate
In our high school chemistry classes we all learn about chirality, the property of organic molecules in which two chemically identical molecules can have different structures that are mirror images …read more Continue reading Chirality Could Kill Us All, If We Let It
The web browser started life as a relatively simple hypertext reading application, but over the 30+ years since the first one displayed a simple CERN web page it has been …read more Continue reading Use Your RTL, In The Browser
As a British taxpayer it’s reassuring to know that over in Cheltenham there’s a big round building full of people dedicated to keeping us safe. GCHQ is the nation’s electronic …read more Continue reading British Spooks Issue Yearly Teaser
The process of ironmaking has relied for centuries on iron ore, an impure form of iron oxide, slowly being reduced to iron by carbon monoxide in a furnace. Whether that …read more Continue reading Ore To Iron In A Few Seconds: New Chinese Process Will Revolutionise Smelting
Having a penchant for cheap second-hand cameras can lead to all manner of interesting equipment. You never know what the next second-hand store will provide, and thus everything from good …read more Continue reading Disc Film,When Kodak Pushed Convenience Too Far
Ah, the 1990s. It was a simpler time, when the web was going to be democratic and decentralised, you could connect your Windows 95 PC to the internet without worrying …read more Continue reading Magic Eye Images In Your Spreadsheet
The widely quoted carrot factoid that the vegetable’s orange colour is the result of patriotic Dutch farmers breeding them that way may be an urban myth, but it’s certainly true …read more Continue reading The Audiophile Carrot
A good source of hackable home automation parts has come for a while in the form of inexpensive modules offered by large retailers such as Lidl, or IKEA. They’re readily …read more Continue reading A Look inside IKEA’s Vallhorn Motion Sensor Teardown
Conventional wisdom has it that the solid state era in electronics began in 1948 with the invention of the transistor, or if you wish to split hairs, with the 1930s …read more Continue reading A Hundred Year Old Solid State Amplifier
It’s fair to say that climate change is perhaps the greatest challenge facing our planet, and while much attention is directed towards solutions to the problems it presents, perhaps there’s …read more Continue reading Unconventional Oil Production, All You Need to Know