When ships moved from muscle- and wind power to burning coal and other fossil fuels for their propulsion, they also became ...

While they are dying out, you can still find incandescent bulbs. While these were once totally common, they’ve been largely ...

Everyone likes something cheap, and when that cheap thing is a router that’s supported by OpenWRT, it sounds like a win.

This one isn’t clickbait, but it is cheating. [Brian Haidet], the guy behind Alpha Phoenix, has managed to assemble movie ...

Despite the latest and greatest Intel-derived computers having multi-core 64-bit processors and unimaginably fast peripherals ...

But did you know that pi has an evil twin represented by the symbol ϖ? As [John Carlos Baez] explains, it and its related ...

Over the last few decades, electronic devices have drastically changed. Radios that once had point-to-point wiring gave way ...

Having a good set of (working) headlights is a crucial feature of any motor vehicle, assuming you want to be able to see the road ahead of you when there’s a lack of sunshine. Headlights are ...

In this era of cheap turn-key machines, the idea of actually building your own desktop 3D printer might seem odd to some. But if you’re looking for a challenge, and want to end up with a ...

Christmas: a good time to broach a topic of hope. We’re talking Esperanto. This language that spurred the hope it one day could hack the barriers between people, eliminating war and ...

It’s really never too early (or too late) to learn time management. All joking aside, carefully managing one’s time can result in some really wondrous achievements. So it’s best ...