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One of the best parts of retrocomputing is that you can obtain so many broken systems and peripherals for repairing and other assorted fun. This was the wholesome activity that …read more Continue reading Commodore Floppy Drive Fixing Chaos
The Lilium Jet is a proposed eVTOL (electric Vertical Take Off and Landing) aircraft that the German company Lilium GmbH has claimed it will bring to the market ‘soon’, which …read more Continue reading Will the Lilium Jet Work? A Deep-Dive Into the Physics Behind eVTOL Aircraft
Before the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP, spelled ‘Chornobyl’ in Ukrainian) disaster in 1986, there had been little need for radiation-resistant robots to venture into high-risk zones. Yet in the …read more Continue reading The Many Robots That Ventured Into the Chernobyl NPP #4 Reactor
These days it’s hard to imagine that fabrics were ever made out of anything other than cotton or synthetic fibers, yet it wasn’t too long ago that hemp and flax-based …read more Continue reading Cottonization: Making Hemp and Flax Fibers Into The Better Cotton
The field of photonics has seen significant advances during the past decades, to the point where it is now an integral part of high-speed, international communications. For general processing photonics …read more Continue reading Creating Lithography-Free Photonic Reprogrammable Circuits
For a few years now, [Richard] of Tropical Ocean Cleanup fame has been working hard to clean the Philippines of the plastic trash that litters everything, and washes down the …read more Continue reading Using Trash To Keep Plastic Trash Out Of Oceans By Kabooming Them
When Iran recently announced a quantum processing algorithm (Google translation) that would help its military to detect water surface disturbances, the instant response from Western media was one of ridicule, …read more Continue reading Iran’s Military Quantum Claim: It’s Only 99.4% Ridiculous
Although experimental verification is at the heart of the scientific method, there is quite a difficulty range when it comes to setting up such an experiment. Testing what underlies the …read more Continue reading Parker Solar Probe’s Confirmation of Interchange Reconnection Being the Source of Fast Solar Wind
When we see a photograph or photo of a scene, we can likely imagine what sounds would go with it, but what if this gets inverted, and we have to …read more Continue reading Blind Camera: Visualizing a Scene From Its Sounds Alone
Scanning Tunneling Microscopes (STMs) are amazing tools which can manipulate singular atoms, but they cannot characterize these atoms as they act only on the outer electron shell. Meanwhile X-ray spectroscopy …read more Continue reading Characterizing Singular Atoms Using X-Ray Spectroscopy and Scanning Tunneling Microscopy