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Voyager 1 Signal Detected by Amateurs

Catwell — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 21:41:11 GMT

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...(read more)

Engineers Develop Living Circuit Boards Using Bacteria That Work Like Transistors

Catwell — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:55:29 GMT

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...(read more)

Human Neurons to Power Data Centers in Australia and Scientists Create Virtual Fly

Catwell — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:45:02 GMT

(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...(read more)

Apollo 11’s Software Was Woven by Hand

Catwell — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:37:45 GMT

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...(read more)

Two Laser Pulses Steer an Electron Beam

Catwell — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:12:03 GMT

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 ...(read more)

Wildlands Network is Tracking Pronghorn to See If Solar Projects Affect It

Catwell — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:50:52 GMT

A pronghorn. (Image: pixabay) Solar projects are spreading across landscapes, and researchers are investigating how wildlife adapts to them. Wildlands Network fitted 75 female pronghorns with GPS collars to understand how they move across areas with...(read more)

Vision Restoration Implant Gains European Approval

Catwell — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 20:04:18 GMT

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...(read more)

Venezuelan Residents Received an Alert When the Earthquakes Struck

Catwell — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:00:50 GMT

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...(read more)

Last Year, Paradromics and the University of Michigan Implanted A BCI In a Research Participant

Catwell — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 07:04:57 GMT

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...(read more)

Commercial LiDAR Sensor Can Allow You to See Around Corners

Catwell — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:41:39 GMT

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...(read more)

Researchers Develop a Light-Based Chip That Processes Information

Catwell — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 07:11:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Monitoring Mains Current: Experimenting with the SCT013 Current Clamp

shabaz — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:45:02 GMT

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...(read more)

Can LEDs Influence Human Visual Performance?

Catwell — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:06:15 GMT

(Image Credit: BrianPenny/pixabay) 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...(read more)

Researchers Develop Tiny Memory That Improves as it Shrinks

Catwell — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:40:21 GMT

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...(read more)

Maker Develops RAM In Backyard Shed

Catwell — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:08:14 GMT

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 ...(read more)