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It’s a blustery January day outside Lakehurst, New Jersey. The East Coast of North America is experiencing its worst weather in decades, and all civilian aircraft have been grounded the …read more

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Personally, I love a monoblock or uni-body split. You’ll pry this Kinesis Advantage from under my cold, dead hands. But on the go, I really like the Glove 80, a …read more

Railguns: Making Metal Go Fast Using The Lorentz Force

In science fiction, the use of gunpowder-based weapons is generally portrayed as something from a savage past, with technology having long since moved on to more civilized types of destructive …read more

Tech In Plain Sight: Projection Clocks

You wake up in the middle of the night. Is it time to get up? Well, you can look at the nightstand clock. Unless your partner is in the way. …read more

How Safe Are Old Airbags, Anyway?

Automotive airbags are key safety devices that aim to reduce injuries and mortality in the event of motor vehicle accidents. These rapidly-inflating cushions act to soften the blow of an …read more

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LED Printers: The Quiet Achievers You May Not Have Heard Of

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By Lewin Day | March 2, 2026

Many different types of printers have entered the market over the years. Most of us are intimately familiar with the common inkjet and laser, both of which can be found …read more
Homemade Liquid Oxygen Demonstrates Paramagnetism

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By Aaron Beckendorf | March 2, 2026

Liquid nitrogen isn’t exactly an everyday material, but it’s acquired conveniently enough to be used in extreme overclocking experiments, classroom demonstrations, chemistry and physics experiments, and a number of other …read more
Accidental Climate Engineering With Disintegrating Satellites

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By Maya Posch | March 2, 2026

For many decades humankind has entertained the notion that we can maybe tweak the Earth’s atmosphere or biosphere in such a way that we can for example undo the harms …read more
Simple D-STAR Transceiver Uses Inexpensive Hardware

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By Donald Papp | March 2, 2026

[Yeckel] recently put the finishing touches on an ambitious implementation of a simple D-STAR (Digital Smart Technologies for Amateur Radio) transceiver using some very accessible and affordable hardware. The project …read more
Examining A World’s Record From The Age Of Steam

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By Jenny List | March 2, 2026

There aren’t many speed records that remain unbroken for the greater part of a century, but one of them is that of the fastest steam locomotive. As with so many …read more
Teardown Of Dangerous Fake Wago Connectors

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By Maya Posch | March 1, 2026

Everyone loves Wago connectors for how versatile and effective they are for quickly and securely connecting conductors, but it can be tempting to buy a bag of the significantly cheaper …read more
Making A 286 Think It’s Alive Again

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By Lewin Day | March 1, 2026

[Nagy Krisztián] had an Intel 286 CPU, only… There was no motherboard to install it in. Perhaps not wanting the processor to be lonely, [Nagy] built a simulated system to …read more

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