Not too long ago, I was searching for ideas for the next installment of the “Big Chemistry” series when I found an article ...

Cryptographic messaging has been in the news a lot recently. Like the formal audit of WhatsApp (the actual PDF). And the ...

The 1970s saw a veritable goldrush to corner the home computer market, with Tandy’s Z80-powered TRS-80 probably one of the most (in)famous entries. Designed from the ground up to be as cheap ...

The Intel 8051 series of 8-bit microcontrollers is long-discontinued by its original manufacturer, but lives on as a core ...

Every year lightning strikes cause a lot of damage — with the high-voltage discharges being a major risk to buildings, ...

We always enjoy [The History Guy], and we wish he’d do more history of science and technology. But when he does, he always delivers! His latest video, which you can see below, focuses on the ...

We don’t often consider using do-it-yourself projects as a hedge against the apocalypse. But [The Thought Emporium] thinks we ...

Researchers from the USA and India have proposed that Floquet Majorana fermions may improve quantum computing by controlling ...

No, see, it’s what’s inside that counts. Believe it or not, [nobutternoparm] retrofitted this innocent, adorable little ...

You think of op amps as amplifiers because, no kidding, it is right in the name. But just like some people say, “you could do ...

We’ve all seen those cheap bench power supply units (PSUs) for sale online, promising specifications that would cost at least a hundred dollars or more if it were a name brand model. Just ...

Dan Maloney and I were talking on the podcast about his memories of the old electronics magazines, and how they had some ...