One of the more interesting categories of our ongoing Green Power Challenge is “anything but PV” — and since the radiated ...

Rare earth materials are a hot button topic these days. They’re important for everything from electric vehicles to defence ...

You’re probably not going to hang out around Chernobyl any time soon. Still, knowing the conditions there can both satisfy ...

Running a nuclear power plant isn’t an easy task, even with the level of automation available to a 1980s Soviet RBMK reactor. In their continuing efforts to build a full-sized, functional replica of ...

It’s the latest in instrumentation for the well-appointed shop — an acoustically coupled fast Fourier transform tachometer. Sounds expensive, but it’s really just using a smartphone spectrum analyzer ...

When you think of Chernobyl (or Chornobyl, now), you think of the nuclear accident, of course. But have you ever considered that where there is a nuclear reactor, there is a computer control system?

As hardware ages, it becomes harder and harder to keep it in service. Whether that’s because of physical aging or lack of support from the company who built it in the first place, time is not ...

Nuclear batteries are pretty simple devices that are conceptually rather similar to photovoltaic (PV) solar, just using the ...

We’ve always been interested in fluidic computers, a technique that uses moving fluids to perform logic operations. Now, ...

Noise cancelling headphones are a great way to insulate yourself from the bustle of the city, but due to their power ...

Most makers find themselves in need of a benchtop power supply at some point or another. Basic models can be had relatively ...

We’ll start things off this week with a story that’s developing more than 25 billion kilometers from Earth — on Friday, NASA ...