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Solar activity reconstructed over a millennium

“An international team of researchers led by ETH Zurich has reconstructed solar activity back to the year 969 using measurements of radioactive carbon in tree rings. Those results help scientists to better understand the dynamics of the sun and allow …

SpaceX’s 1st Starlink launch of 2021 went off without a hitch Wednesday

“SpaceX launched 60 more of its Starlink satellites on January 20, 2021. SpaceX ultimately intends to launch tens of thousands of these satellites, to provide global internet access. Here’s why astronomers are concerned. SpaceX launched another 60 Starlink internet …

Storing information with light

“New photo-ferroelectric materials allow to store information in a non-volatile way using light stimulus. The idea is to create energy efficient memory devices with high performance and versatility to face the challenges of the current society. The study has been …

Studying Chaos with One of the World’s Fastest Cameras

“There are things in life that can be predicted reasonably well. The tides rise and fall. The moon waxes and wanes. A billiard ball bounces around a table according to orderly geometry. And then there are things that defy easy …

Superconducting Microprocessors? Turns Out They’re Ultra-Efficient

“The 2.5 GHz prototype uses 80 times less energy than its semiconductor counterpart, even accounting for cooling Computers use a staggering amount of energy today. According to one recent estimate, data centers alone consume two percent of the world …

Talking keyboard

“Functional description The whole project is built around stuff I had laying around, so there should be plenty of ways pulling it off. An old keyboard (about 1988 vintage) gives the project its enclosure and “user-interface”. An Arduino Nano is …

There’s a new spider in town: advancing the field of robotics with ionic spiderwebs

“A new kind of robot has been born in Professor Jeong-Yun Sun’s lab, one that takes inspiration from the way spiders spin their webs. Spiders construct webs based on a minimalist framework, which allows them to sense even the …

Toshiba Starts Shipping World’s Smallest Bluetooth® Low Energy Module

“SASP™ technology realizes a module small enough to build into a button, bringing added convenience to health management and exercise analysis with wearable devices Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502) has developed the world’s smallest (*1) Bluetooth® Low Energy module, with …

Transforming quantum computing’s promise into practice

“Electrical engineer William Oliver develops technology to enable reliable quantum computing at scale. It was music that sparked William Oliver’s lifelong passion for computers. Growing up in the Finger Lakes region of New York, he was an avid keyboard …

Trollduino V1.0

“Response to Hackaday comments section: a 555 timer in Arduino form factor “That’s stupid! Why use an Arduino when you could do the same thing with a 555?” - representitive comment on any Hackaday post that describes any Arduino project …