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Supercapacitors turbocharged by laxatives

“An international team of scientists, including a professor of chemistry from the University of Bristol, has worked out a way to improve energy storage devices called supercapacitors, by designing a new class of detergents chemically related to laxatives. Their paper …

Thinnest optical waveguide channels light within just three layers of atoms

“Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed the thinnest optical device in the world—a waveguide that is three layers of atoms thin. The work is a proof of concept for scaling down optical devices to sizes …

Towards a light driven molecular assembler

“Chemists at Kiel University built the first artificial molecular machines that perform synthesis Chemists usually synthesize molecules using stochastic bond-forming collisions of the reactant molecules in solution. Nature follows a different strategy in biochemical synthesis. The majority of biochemical reactions …

Vintage Beauty

“Driving vintage HP HDSP-2000 Alphanumeric LED displays with a retro EPROM 8051 Microcontroller. I made this project because I love Vintage Hardware and wanted to make something cool with the LED displays and an old 8051 that I had …

Virtual ‘Universe Machine’ Sheds Light on Galaxy Evolution

“By creating millions of virtual universes and comparing them to observations of actual galaxies, a UA-led research team has made discoveries that present a powerful new approach for studying galaxy formation. How do galaxies such as our Milky Way …

Visible Lisp Computer

“The Visible Lisp Computer is a Lisp interpreter that displays the contents of the Lisp workspace on an OLED display, so you can see program execution and garbage collection in real time. It’s a special version of my uLisp …

Web Weather Forecast Display on ESP8266 and MicroPython

“Using a D1 mini to download and show one-week weather forecast data on an LCD 20x4 display. Sometime ago I’ve come across MetaWeather, a weather data service requires no authentication or registration. I figured I’ll make a little …

2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ Processors Set New Standard for the Modern Datacenter with Record-Breaking Performance and Significant TCO Savings

“At a launch event today, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) was joined by an expansive ecosystem of datacenter partners and customers to introduce the 2nd Generation AMD EPYC™ family of processors that deliver performance leadership across a broad number of enterprise, cloud …

4 Bits Binary Counter Up/Down

“The counter is a 4 bits binary counter up/down. That is, this counter can counter from 0 to 15 or from 15 to 0 because it counts either up or down. The project is a binary counter made with …

A modified device fabrication process achieves enhanced spin transport in graphene

“Researchers from the ICN2 Physics and Engineering of Nanodevices Group have proposed a modified graphene-based nanodevice fabrication technique that has increased up to three times the spin lifetime and relaxation length compared to previous work of the same kind. The …