Asteroidea Electrica, first prize winner by Adrianus Indrat Aria. Cambridge University, CC BY By Allan McRobie, University of Cambridge We all know engineering is useful, functional, even ingenious.…

Researchers at the University of Guanajuato (UGTO), in middle Mexico, developed an extraction column which recovers metals companies use in their production processes; and thus avoid environmental…

Metamaterials have long held promise for extraordinary properties when it comes to diverting and controlling waves, especially sound and light: for instance, at the right optical frequency, they can…

Computers don't really boot up any faster than they have in decades and that is due to limitations in electric currents (and ignoring the bloated software rolled out after every new chip), which…

I finally received a Foldscope beta test kit. “Foldscope is an origami-based print-and-fold optical microscope that can be assembled from a flat sheet of paper,” according to the website. The…

Charles Hatchett - Tribologist to the Royal Mint Charles Hatchett is widely known as the discoverer of Niobium, but he deserves recogniton for other acheivements also.  He was the first…

Excerpt from “The Terrorism Delusion” by Meuller and Stewart: We have argued that terrorism is a limited problem with limited consequences and that the reaction to it has been excessive, and even…

Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Lab have accelerated subatomic particles to the highest energies ever recorded from a compact accelerator -  a laser-…

Using commercial solar cells, researchers have converted over 40 percent of the sunlight hitting a solar system into electricity, the highest efficiency ever reported. Since plant photosynthesis, the…

The diode has a number of applications in electronic circuits. One application you may be familiar with is a rectifier. A rectifier converts alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC).…