For the longest time, the internet was a mostly one-way street -- providing fast downloads but slower upload speeds. It was designed this way intentionally to support our online behaviors at that time ...

Surprising facts, like “old fangled” 3-leg linear regulators (LM317, LM337, LM350, et al.) can be used in shunt regulator topologies can sometimes inspire “new fangled” circuit designs. Figure 1 shows ...

To begin to understand what mathematicians and physicists see in the abstract structures of symmetries, let’s start with a familiar shape. We are fond of saying things are symmetric, but what does ...

The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has turned a routine comet flyby into a genuine scientific puzzle, thanks to a remarkably symmetric jet structure that refuses to behave like anything seen in the ...

This blog comes from my discussions with Steve Savoie, a manufacturing and tooling engineer who spoke at last year’s International Boatbuilders Exhibition (IBEX). Steve has a background in both ...

Richard Cook receives funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Beauty, it is said, is in the eye of the beholder. And yet, there are many faces that a majority would find ...