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Pushing the envelope with fusion magnets

“MIT Energy Fellow David Fischer irradiates high-temperature superconducting tape to test its resilience and prepare for the first pilot fusion plant. “At the age of between 12 and 15 I was drawing; I was making plans of fusion devices.” David …

Researchers 3D-print biomedical parts with supersonic speed

“Forget glue, screws, heat or other traditional bonding methods. A Cornell-led collaboration has developed a 3D printing technique that creates cellular metallic materials by smashing together powder particles at supersonic speed. This form of technology, known as “cold spray,” results …

Researchers trap electrons to create elusive crystal

“Like restless children posing for a family portrait, electrons won’t hold still long enough to stay in any kind of fixed arrangement. Now, a Cornell-led collaboration has developed a way to stack two-dimensional semiconductors and trap electrons in a …

Reverse-engineering the carry-lookahead circuit in the Intel 8008 processor

“The 8008 was Intel’s first 8-bit microprocessor, introduced in 1972. While primitive by today’s standards, the 8008 is historically important because it essentially started the microprocessor revolution and is the ancestor of the modern x86 processor family. I …

Rotary Cnc Bottle Plotter

“I picked up some rollers, which are probably used in the printer. I came up with the idea of turning them into the rotation axis of CNC bottle plotter. Today, I’d like to share how to build CNC bottle …

Russian Scientists Develop Perovskite Metasurfaces for Smart Glass

“Perovskite thin films will make it possible to turn normal glass into smart surfaces that can display information in AR devices and convert solar energy into electricity. The research of the group headed by ITMO scientists has been in Laser …

Samsung Researchers Open a New Chapter for Holographic Displays

“Holograms have been wowing us ever since they were first invented in 1947. The incredible thing about holograms is that they allow us to experience the real and virtual worlds at the same time. Though they’ve long been regarded …

SCADA using Cellular IoT with MKR GSM 1400

“Applying IoT Technologies to revive an old SCADA Telemetry System I took up a challenge from an oil/gas client to revive a GSM based SCADA system that they had inherited, and to do so at very low cost. The …

Seawalls’ marine biodiversity enhanced by eco-engineered tiles: CityU study

“A research team of marine ecologists led by Professor Kenneth Leung Mei-yee, Director of the State Key Laboratory of Marine Pollution at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) and Chair Professor of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry in the Department of …

Shape-shifting mirror

“This bendable space mirror can have its shape shifted to compensate for manufacturing or alignment errors within orbital telescopes or temperature-driven distortions. Very large space telescopes are necessary to increase image resolution and sensitivity, whether for deep space exoplanet detection …