These are not headphones, exactly. This is a thing made of telephone parts designed to help electrical tinkerers do better tinkering. It’s from a page […]
The Guardian reports on Swiss scientists who have taken ordinary wood floor planks, coated them with silicon and embedded nanocrystals, and then stepped on them […]
Scientific American reports on new advances made by a team of Portuguese researchers toward getting electricity from the endless motion of the ocean: Waves alone […]
Houston Methodist Neurological Institute is proud to share the results of the first human trial of a magnet helmet that generates an oscillating magnetic field […]
Ars Technica busts a long-running myth about batteries – that they’re always five years away from any real improvement – with a look at how […]
This is a Wechselstrommaschine, an alternator. The wheel goes around, and the spokes hit contacts – one set makes the electricity go in one direction […]
Click to embiggen From Harry Winfield Secor’s The How and Why of Radio Apparatus, from the Experimenter Publishing Co., which you can read here. Electricity […]
Nature has research (from Joule) that brings us closer to an electric filling station for battery-powered cars, thanks to the discovery that raising the temperature […]
Eurekalert has details on a new anti-aging system that, according to University of Leeds researchers, resets older folks’ autonomic nervous system by stimulating the vagus […]
Click to embiggen vastly If it looks like a miniature sun, maybe that’s because on one level it is – it’s creating plasma, which surrounds […]
Click to embiggen. A goache painting from the Wellcome Collection. A rather polite setting of research equipment with a bouquet. No idea whose, or what […]
Click to embiggen Electrical history from PW Lanier and the Minneapolis Institute of Art: This tabletop Tesla coil was likely made for science classes, producing […]
The Guardian has a game-changing invention for neurologists and anyone who needs a brain-scan done – a wearable helmet that lets you walk around – […]
Science News has more on how a zap of electric current, placed just so, can increase your ability to make and maintain new memories: The […]
Click to embiggen Not “field” as in “field recording,” but “field” as in “magnetic field.” These are from a chapter on direct-current dynamos in E. […]
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