Collaborate Disseminate
For decades there has been this tantalizing idea being pitched of pulling CO2 out of the air and using the carbon molecules for something more useful, like making plastics. Although …read more Continue reading Caltech Scientists Make Producing Plastics From CO2 More Efficient
In nuclear fusion, the triple product – also known as the Lawson criterion – defines the point at which a nuclear fusion reaction produces more power than is needed to …read more Continue reading Wendelstein 7-X Sets New Record for the Nuclear Fusion Triple Product
We’re probably all familiar with adding wood dust, hemp and carbon fibers to PLA filament, but there are so many other fillers one could add. During the completely unrelated recent …read more Continue reading Introducing PooLA Filament: Grass Fiber-Reinforced PLA
Recently AI risk and benefit evaluation company METR ran a randomized control test (RCT) on a gaggle of experienced open source developers to gain objective data on how the use …read more Continue reading Measuring the Impact of LLMs on Experienced Developer Productivity
My first encounter with C++ was way back in the 1990s, when it was one of the Real Programming Languages™ that I sometimes heard about as I was still splashing …read more Continue reading Dearest C++, Let Me Count the Ways I Love/Hate Thee
It should probably come as no surprise to anyone that the images which we look at every day – whether printed or on a display – are simply illusions. That …read more Continue reading Dithering With Quantization to Smooth Things Over
Normally you can’t read out the One Time Programming (OTP) memory in Microchip’s PIC MCUs that have code protection enabled, but an exploit has been found that gets around the …read more Continue reading PIC Burnout: Dumping Protected OTP Memory in Microchip PIC MCUs
Over the course of evolution microorganisms have evolved pathways to break down many materials. The challenge with the many materials that we humans have created over just the past decades …read more Continue reading Turning PET Plastic Into Paracetamol With This One Bacterial Trick
Over the course of evolution microorganisms have evolved pathways to break down many materials. The challenge with the many materials that we humans have created over just the past decades …read more Continue reading Turning PET Plastic Into Paracetamol With This One Bacterial Trick
AF114 germanium transistors and related ones like the AF115 through AF117 were quite popular during the 1960s, but they quickly developed a reputation for failure. This is due to what …read more Continue reading Diagnosing Whisker Failure Mode in AF114 and Similar Transistors