Collaborate Disseminate
Have you ever found yourself looking at the insects of the Paleozoic era, including the dragonfly Meganeuropsis permiana with its 71 cm wingspan and wondered what it would be like …read more Continue reading Super-Sizing Insects and the Benefits of Bones
When the orbit of NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft took it behind the Red Planet on December 6th, ground controllers expected a temporary loss of signal (LoS). …read more Continue reading NASA May Have Lost the MAVEN Mars Orbiter
After you have written the code for some awesome application, you of course want other people to be able to use it. Although simply directing them to the source code …read more Continue reading Creating User-Friendly Installers Across Operating Systems
To those of us who live in the civilized lands where ~230 VAC mains is the norm and we can shove a cool 3.5 kW into an electric kettle without …read more Continue reading Using a Level 2 Charger to Work Around Slow 120 VAC Kettles
As amazing as the human body is, it’s unfortunately not as amazing as e.g. axolotl bodies are, in the sense that they can regrow entire limbs and more. This has …read more Continue reading 3D Printing and the Dream of Affordable Prosthetics
Closed-cell self-expanding foam (spray foam) is an amazing material that sees common use in construction. But one application that we hadn’t heard of before was using it to fill the …read more Continue reading On the Benefits of Filling 3D Prints With Spray Foam
As the saying goes: if it has a processor and a display, it can run DOOM. The corollary here is that if some software displays things, someone will figure out …read more Continue reading KiDoom Brings Classic Shooter to KiCad
Antihydrogen forms an ideal study subject for deciphering the secrets of fundamental physics due to it being the most simple anti-matter atom. However, keeping it from casually annihilating itself along …read more Continue reading Boosting Antihydrogen Production using Beryllium Ions
Intel’s 386 CPU is notable for being its first x86 CPU to use so-called standard cell logic, which swapped the taping out of individual transistors with wiring up standardized functional …read more Continue reading Unusual Circuits in the Intel 386’s Standard Cell Logic
The cool part about science is that you can ask questions like what happens if you stick some moss spores on the outside of the International Space Station, and then …read more Continue reading Testing the Survivability of Moss in Space