Collaborate Disseminate
Recently [Florin] was in the market for a basic uninterruptible power supply (UPS) to provide some peace of mind for the smart home equipment he had stashed around. Unfortunately, the …read more Continue reading The Cost of a Cheap UPS is 10 Hours and a Replacement PCB
Starting January 1st, 2026, Washington state’s new Right to Repair law will come into effect. It requires manufacturers to make tools, parts and documentation available for diagnostics and repair of …read more Continue reading Washington Consumers Gain Right to Repair for Cellphones and More
Genetic defects are exceedingly common, which is not surprising considering just how many cells make up our bodies, including our reproductive cells. While most of these defects have no or …read more Continue reading Fixing a Fatal Genetic Defect in Babies With a Bit of Genetic Modification
To paraphrase The Simpsons: plastics are the solution to – and cause of – all of mankind’s problems. Nowhere is this more clear in the phenomenon of microplastics. Some have …read more Continue reading Mouse Model Suggests Starch-Based Plastics Are Still Bad For You
Starting on June 12, 2025, the NASA Spot the Station website will no longer provide ISS sighting information, per a message recently sent out. This means no information on sighting …read more Continue reading NASA Is Shutting Down the International Space Station Sighting Website
As a common feature with thermal power plants, cooling towers enable major water savings compared to straight through cooling methods. Even so, the big clouds of water vapor above them …read more Continue reading Recovering Water From Cooling Tower Plumes With Plume Abatement
Continuing the scientific theme of adding fluorescent proteins to everything that moves, this time spiders found themselves at the pointy end of the CRISPR-Cas9 injection needle. In a study by …read more Continue reading Gene Editing Spiders to Produce Red Fluorescent Silk
Taking a break from his usual prodding at suspicious AliExpress USB chargers, [DiodeGoneWild] recently had a gander at what used to be a good USB charger. Before it went completely …read more Continue reading Fault Analysis of a 120W Anker GaNPrime Charger
Although the idea of containing a plasma within a magnetic field seems straightforward at first, plasmas are highly dynamic systems that will happily escape magnetic confinement if given half a …read more Continue reading Plugging Plasma Leaks in Magnetic Confinement With New Guiding Center Model
In the early days of the World Wide Web – with the Year 2000 and the threat of a global collapse of society were still years away – the crafting …read more Continue reading The World Wide Web and the Death of Graceful Degradation