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Additive Manufacturing (AM) is a field of ever-growing importance, with many startups and existing companies seeking to either improve on existing AM technologies or market new approaches. At the RAPID …read more Continue reading New Additive Manufacturing Contenders: HIP and Centrifugal Printing
The planet Venus is in so many ways an enigma. It’s a sister planet to Earth and also within relatively easy reach of our instruments and probes, yet we nevertheless …read more Continue reading The Continuing Venusian Mystery of Phosphine and Ammonia
Although most energy storage solutions on a grid-level focus on batteries, a group of researchers at MIT and Harvard University have proposed using supercapacitors instead, with their 2023 research article …read more Continue reading Carbon–Cement Supercapacitors Proposed as an Energy Storage Solution
As the United States’ pinnacle of extravaganza, the Las Vegas Strip and the rest of the town of Paradise are on a seemingly never-ending quest to become brighter, glossier and …read more Continue reading Las Vegas’ Sphere: Powered By Nvidia GPUs and with Impressive Power Bill
Despite the reputation of polymers used with FDM 3D printing like nylon, ABS, and PLA as being generally indestructible, they do come with a whole range of moisture-related issues that …read more Continue reading FDM Filament Troubles: Keeping Hygroscopic Materials From Degrading
An air data computer (ADC) is a crucial part of an avionics package that can calculate the altitude, vertical speed, air speed and more from pressure (via pitot tubes) and …read more Continue reading Reverse-Engineering a Shahed-136 Drone Air Data Computer
An uncomfortable reality with the spacesuits used for extravehicular activities (EVA) – commonly referred to as spacewalks – is that the astronaut spends hours in them, during which normal bodily …read more Continue reading Using Forward- And Reverse-Osmosis to let Astronaut EVA Suits Produce Fresh Water From Urine
Over the years archaeological digs of Roman sites have uncovered many of these strange dodecahedrons, usually made out of metal and with various holes in their faces. With no surviving …read more Continue reading The Mysterious Roman Dodecahedron Was Possibly Just For Knitting
With performance optimizations seemingly having lost their relevance in an era of ever-increasing hardware performance, there are still many good reasons to spend some time optimizing code. In a recent …read more Continue reading C++ Design Patterns for Low-Latency Applications
As practical SD cards are, they lack much of what made floppy disks and cartridges so awesome: room for art and a list of contents, as well as the ability …read more Continue reading Making SD Cards More Nostalgic With More Cartridge-ness