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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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University College London (UCL) researchers looked into whether LED lights limited spectral range negatively affects vision. They compared LED office lighting with broader-spectrum incandescent lighting, with infra...
Rendering of the 25-nanometer wide FTJ developed by Science Tokyo. (Image Credit: Yutaka Majima of the Royal Society of Chemistry)
Engineers at Science Tokyo developed a 25-nanometer-wide ferroelectric tunnel junction (FTJ) memory that improves perf...
RAM. (Image Credit: PublicDomainPictures/pixabay)
I’d love to upgrade to DDR5 ram someday, I was just looking at those prices. I think we all know, RAM prices are crazy high due to the AI demand soaking up the memory supply. And there may not ...
Nawfal built an affordable and accessible radar system that operates at 10.5 GHz. (Image Credit: Nawfal Motii)
Morocco-based electronics engineer Nawfal developed an affordable, open-source AERIS-10 radar system that combines SDR hardware with ...
Schematic diagram showing the coils for the magnets. (Image Credit: Science Advances (2026). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adz5826.)
High-field magnets, especially those for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) or particle accelerators, are massive, sometimes bui...
Harvard researchers developed a device that differentiates the left-or-right handedness of light. (Image Credit: Mazur group at Harvard SEAS)
Researchers at Harvard’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) recently d...
