Electric Plonk.
New Scientist gives us a recipe for converting cheap wine to the good stuff: It is backed by a decade of research, the results have […]
electrical engineering
Einstein’s Fridge
Albert Einstein: atomic physicist, scientific genius, refrigerator maker? Back in the 1920s, he and his pupil Leo Szilard saw a need for a refrigerator (which […]
Steampunk Laughs Last: Hydrogen from Solar.
PhysOrg.com reveals the unexpected origin of a new alternative energy technology – it isn’t new at all: …[I]t may seem a bit out of place […]
For That Atomic Guitar Sound.
New Scientist goes behind the music to tell the real story of Manchester rocker and physics prof Andrew Murray, who figured out a new way […]
Depression Meets the Magnet Cure.
WebMD reports on the first clinical application for using really big magnets to zap depressed people’s brain waves: The clearance comes nearly two years after […]
If a potato can power a clock…
…then a tree can power a forest-fire deterrent system. At least, so says Discover magazine and a group of MIT scientists who’ve started a “tree […]