Astronauts Christina Koch and Victor Glover capture images of the lunar surface during the Artemis II mission. (Image Credit: NASA)
On October 7th, NASA published over 800GB of lunar science data from the Artemis II mission. It has 11,000+ full-reso...
Schematic of the optical ring-laser gyroscope. (Image Credit: Kerry Vahala, California Institute of Technology)
Scientists recently built a chip-scale optical ring-laser gyroscope with slow-rotating measurement capabilities. It’s nearly 2,000 ...
Artist’s illustration of the ISEE-3 spacecraft. (Image Credit: NASA)
In 1978, NASA’s International Sun Earth Explorer 3 (ISEE-3) was launched to investigate solar wind and how it interacted with the magnetic environment. Eventually, NASA...
The bean plant with conductive roots (dark roots). (Image Credit: Thor Balkhed/Linköping University)
Researchers at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Linköping University, have found a way to turn the roots of a living plant into ele...
An April 2010 VLT image showing Beta Pictoris b located 6.5 AU from its star. (Image Credit: ESO)
A gas giant called Beta Pictoris b, located about 63 light-years from Earth, has been emitting strongly circularly polarized bursts. Astronomers recent...
Artist’s illustration of the PRIMA observatory. (Image Credit: NASA/JPC-Caltech)
NASA recently chose the Probe Far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics (PRIMA) to move from Phase A to Phase B, the next development stage. This brings PRIMA c...
It’s not everyday I take apart a (reasonably pricey) microphone! But, I was curious, and taking things apart is sometimes how one learns.
A long time ago I took apart an Echo Dot, which contains very different microphone technology (MEMS d...
Harvard’s lab-grown organoids. (Image Credit: Carlos Sanchez/Harvard FAS Staff Photographer)
It takes years for the human brain to develop. And this makes it difficult to experimentally study some maturation stages. Harvard University researc...
Seaber’s YUCO-PHYSCICO underwater drone. (Image Credit: Seaber)
Water layers in the Baltic Sea don’t always stay in the same place. In August, researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) used an u...
Small SiPhOG chip. (Image Credit: Anello Photonics)
Today’s navigation systems must be accurate, especially when GPS signals aren’t available or reliable. Although jamming blocks those signals, spoofing can send false positioning data to...
Alpha Centauri. (Image Credit: European Southern Observatory/Digitized Sky Survey 2; Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin/Mahdi Zamani)
By the end of 2029, the nonprofit Fermi Explorer Mission is aiming to launch an interstellar spacecraft to Alpha Cent...
The Fugleramme device captures bird songs and draws an illustration of the species on an e-ink display. (Image Credit: arnegiacomo/GitHub)
I love love love this. It’s one of those project where you lean back and say, why didn’t I think o...
(Image Credit JillWellington/pixabay)
The Old Faithful geyser has a secret. And University of Utah scientists uncovered it. Beneath the area around the geyser lies a network of fractures and pores that forms part of its hydrothermal system. This con...
Artist’s rendering of Voyager traveling through space. (Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
In late 2024, skilled radio amateurs with CAMRAS used the Dwingeloo Observatory to detect the carrier signal of Voyager 1 from over 15.5 billion miles away...
MIT has engineered bacteria to function like transistors for living circuit boards. (Image Credit: MIT)
Transistors are used in circuitry to control electrical signal flow. But now there is a bio-inspired one. MIT engineers modified bacteria that ca...
(Image Credit: TheDigitalArtist/pixabay)
Something about these developments makes me think we’re living in a dystopian science fiction timeline. Really unsettling. How much brain matter is needed for consciousness?
Cortical Labs, an Austr...
Launch of the Apollo 11 mission. (Image Credit: NASA)
Before launching, the Apollo 11 software had to become physical. It wasn’t electronically written into its computer. After programmers wrote and verified the software, the binary instructi...
Illustrating showing two colored laser pulses moving an electron beam in different directions. (Image Credit: Yiming Gong/University of Michigan)
University of Michigan engineers recently developed a device that uses laser light to control electron ...
A pronghorn. (Image: pixabay)
Solar projects are spreading across landscapes, and researchers are investigating how wildlife adapts to them. Wildlands Networkfitted 75 female pronghorns with GPS collars to understand how they move across areas with...
The tiny PRIMA implant helps restore lost vision. (Image Credit: Science Corporation)
Brain-computer interfaces have come a long way. And now they’re being deployed in real-world healthcare, with new devices helping patients regain lost abilit...
In 2020, Southern California experienced a 4.5-magnitude earthquake. Android phones were notified when the quake hit. (Image Credit: Google)
Small earthquakes, which cause little to no damage, happen every day. Occasionally, stronger ones strike. Th...
The Connexus BCI recorded neural activity as soon as they fire. (Image Credit: University of Michigan) Elon Musk’s Neuralink has competition in the brain-computer interface (BCI) space. In collaboration with Paradromics, University of Michig...
MIT researchers have turned a smartphone LiDAR sensor into a system that can see around corners. (Image Credit: Aaron Young/MIT Media Lab)
One might think it’s impossible to see around corners without special equipment. But MIT researchers ha...
Artist’s impression of a photonic valleytronic chip that processes information. (Image Credit: Chi Linn)
Monash University researchers recently developed a tiny circuit that generates light signals, precisely routes them, and turns them into e...
Table of Contents
Introduction
What Is It?
Sensitivity
Testbed
‘Scope Traces
Example ADC Circuit
Summary
Introduction
The SCT013 (sometimes called SCT-013) is popular in a lot of home automation projects, for monitoring the current consu...
