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Quantum Mechanics and Negative Time With Photon-Atom Interactions

Posted on January 1, 2025 by Maya Posch
Experimental setup and measured optical depth. (Credit: Josiah Sinclair et al,, PRX Quantum, 2022)

Within our comfortable world of causality we expect that reactions always follow an action and not vice versa. This why the recent chatter in the media about researchers having discovered …read more Continue reading Quantum Mechanics and Negative Time With Photon-Atom Interactions→

Posted in quantum physics, Science

Re-engineering Potatoes To Remove Their All-Natural Toxins

Posted on December 31, 2024 by Maya Posch
Different potato varieties. – The potato is the vegetable of choice in the United States. On average, Americans devour about 65 kg of them per year. New potato releases by ARS scientists give us even more choices of potatoes to eat. (Credit: Scott Bauer, USDA ARS)

Family Solanum (nightshade) is generally associated with toxins, and for good reasons, as most of the plants in this family are poisonous. This includes some of everyone’s favorite staple vegetables: …read more Continue reading Re-engineering Potatoes To Remove Their All-Natural Toxins→

Posted in nightshade, potato, Science

Full Color 3D Printing With PolyDye and Existing Inkjet Cartridges

Posted on December 29, 2024 by Maya Posch

Being able to 3D print FDM objects in more than one color is a feature that is rapidly rising in popularity, assisted by various multi-filament systems that allow the printer …read more Continue reading Full Color 3D Printing With PolyDye and Existing Inkjet Cartridges→

Posted in 3d Printer hacks, inkjet, Multicolor 3D printing, PolyDye

Creating a Mechanical Qubit that Lasts Longer Than Other Qubits

Posted on December 28, 2024 by Maya Posch
Experimental sequence for the Ramsey-type phonon anharmonicity measurement. (Credit: Yu Yang et al., Science, 2024)

Among the current challenges with creating quantum computers is that the timespan that a singular qubit remains coherent is quite limited, restricting their usefulness. Usually such qubits consist of an …read more Continue reading Creating a Mechanical Qubit that Lasts Longer Than Other Qubits→

Posted in Quantum computer, qubit, Science

The Focus Dial Never Shipped, but You Can Build One From Scratch

Posted on December 26, 2024 by Maya Posch

What do you do when a crowdfunded product you really liked gets cancelled? Naturally, you take the idea and build your own version of it. That’s what [Salim Benbouziyane] did …read more Continue reading The Focus Dial Never Shipped, but You Can Build One From Scratch→

Posted in Crowd Funding, lifehacks, pomodoro

Battery-Electric Ships: Coming Soon to a Harbor Near You?

Posted on December 26, 2024 by Maya Posch

When ships moved from muscle- and wind power to burning coal and other fossil fuels for their propulsion, they also became significantly faster and larger. Today’s cargo ships and ferries …read more Continue reading Battery-Electric Ships: Coming Soon to a Harbor Near You?→

Posted in battery-electric propulsion, electric ship, Hackaday Columns, transportation hacks

Blinded by the Light: the Problem with LED Headlights

Posted on December 26, 2024 by Maya Posch

Having a good set of (working) headlights is a crucial feature of any motor vehicle, assuming you want to be able to see the road ahead of you when there’s …read more Continue reading Blinded by the Light: the Problem with LED Headlights→

Posted in headlights, LED headlight, transportation hacks

Keeping Track of Old Computer Manuals with the Manx Catalog

Posted on December 24, 2024 by Maya Posch

An unfortunate reality of pre-1990s computer systems is that any manuals and documentation that came with them likely only existed on paper. That’s not to say there aren’t scanned-in (PDF) …read more Continue reading Keeping Track of Old Computer Manuals with the Manx Catalog→

Posted in documentation, manuals, PDF, retrocomputing, Search engine

ALSEP: Apollo’s Modular Lunar Experiments Laboratory

Posted on December 24, 2024 by Maya Posch
Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package of the Apollo 16 mission (Credit: NASA)

Although the US’ Moon landings were mostly made famous by the fact that it featured real-life human beings bunny hopping across the lunar surface, they weren’t there just for a …read more Continue reading ALSEP: Apollo’s Modular Lunar Experiments Laboratory→

Posted in ALSEP, Apollo program, Moon Landing, Science, Space

Atoms For Peace: the US Nuclear Fleet Build-Out and Modern-Day Revival

Posted on December 23, 2024 by Maya Posch

By the end of World War II the world had changed forever, as nuclear weapons were used for the first and – to this date – only time in anger. …read more Continue reading Atoms For Peace: the US Nuclear Fleet Build-Out and Modern-Day Revival→

Posted in engineering, Featured, nuclear power

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