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NASA Awards Artemis Contract for Lunar Gateway Power, Propulsion

“In one of the first steps of the agency’s Artemis lunar exploration plans, NASA announced on Thursday the selection of Maxar Technologies, formerly SSL, in Westminster, Colorado, to develop and demonstrate power, propulsion and communications capabilities for NASA’s …

New Power Supply Unit Lets Electrical Devices Live Longer

“Scientists Have Developed a New Control Method that Significantly Increases the Service Life of End Devices. From the charging unit for smartphones to the power supply of the laptop or washing machine to LED lights or charging stations of electric …

NIST Team Demonstrates Heart of Next-Generation Chip-Scale Atomic Clock

“Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and partners have demonstrated an experimental, next-generation atomic clock—ticking at high “optical” frequencies—that is much smaller than usual, made of just three small chips plus supporting electronics and …

Polymers jump through hoops on pathway to sustainable materials

“Recyclable plastics that contain ring-shaped polymers may be a key to developing sustainable synthetic materials. Despite some promising advances, researchers said, a full understanding of how to processes ring polymers into practical materials remains elusive. In a new study, researchers …

Polyphonic Music - Avengers

“If there was an Avengers game for Atari 2600, the soundtrack would sound like this… This article will show you a simple and interesting project: how to play “The Avengers” theme polyphonically. It is easy to generate sounds with Arduino …

Portable Arduino Lab

“Hello everyone…. All are familiar with Arduino. Basically it is an open source electronic prototyping platform. It is a single board micro-controller computer. It is available in different forms Nano, Uno, etc… All are used to make electronic projects. The …

Producing electricity at estuaries using light and osmosis

“Researchers at EPFL are working on a technology to exploit osmotic energy – a source of power that’s naturally available at estuaries, where fresh water comes into contact with seawater. In a laboratory experiment, the team reproduced the real-world conditions …

Quantum rebar: Quantum dots enhance stability of solar-harvesting perovskite crystals

“U of T Engineering researchers have combined two emerging technologies for next-generation solar power — and discovered that each one helps stabilize the other. The resulting hybrid material is a major step toward reducing the cost of solar power while multiplying …

RaspiPlayer - Internet Radio and MP3 Player Rev2

“Internet radio with MP3 player over Bluetooth. This revision includes album art and new skin. Raspberry Pi internet radio player with MP3 over Bluetooth. This is an update on the Raspberry Pi internet radio player posted on this site about …

Record-shattering underwater sound

“Researchers produced an underwater sound with an intensity that eclipses that of a rocket launch while investigating what happens when they blast tiny jets of water with X-ray laser pulses. A team of researchers has produced a record-shattering underwater sound …