Although graphene gives diamond a solid run for its money when it comes to being the most useful assembly of carbon atoms, ...

Many of us of a certain age will have had their first true, good 3D video game experience with Super Mario 64. Unlike ...

Even if almost tragically impractical in a world where digital calculators are cheap as chips, mechanical calculators and ...

How easy is it to build a simple demonstration at home that proves fundamental law of physics, such as Coulomb’s inverse square law, or Maxwell’s equations? This is one of those ...

Although we often think that we got certain aspects of aerodynamics pretty much licked at this point, details like the ...

Mipmapping is a good way to add a lot more detail to a 3D scene without overburdening the rendering hardware with detail that ...

You might think that if you dug some tunnels down into the ground where you could be out of the sunshine, that you might find ...

The speed that computers have gotten smaller is a bit mind-bending. Most of us now walk around with computers in our pockets that would have rivaled the supercomputers from a few decades ago. And, ...

The PICO-8 is what is known as a ‘fantasy console’– you can program it, and there are oodles of games, but it’s not actually ...

Continuing their reverse-engineering of Intel’s 8087 FPU, [Ken Shirriff] and friends took a look at one of the trigonometric functions, specifically FPTAN. The most exciting part with such ...

As useful as steel and iron are to the modern world, their tendency to rust is a major downside. There’s a spectrum of ways ...

It isn’t quite hailing frequencies open, but researchers from Harvard claim they’ve picked up a radio signal directly from a nearby exoplanet. Before you get too excited, planets in our solar system ...