Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a method that uses a single ion to detect electromagnetic fields above a surface and ...

There are plenty of radios you can buy that pick up MW and SW bands if that’s what you’re into. Or, you can follow [mircemk]’s example, and whip one up yourself instead. The build employs an ESP32 as ...

A team of historians, scientists and engineers has developed a portable X-ray scanner to study 4,000-year-old letters encased in clay envelopes.

Trapped ion quantum computing noise hit a 30-year wall until ETH Zurich researchers built a Penning-trap scanner using a ...

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts This week’s question: Is ...

Our rigid eating habits date to the Industrial Revolution – it’s time to embrace culinary spontaneity ‘One of the stupidest things in an earnest but stupid school of culinary thought is that each of ...

Fast piezo and voice-coil nano-focusing systems keep microscopes and metrology tools sharply focused with nanometer precision and millisecond response.

I love reviewing books but sometimes the pace of reading them can feel like that classic I Love Lucy episode at the chocolate factory. The conveyer belt speeds up and the books keep coming along ...

Navy Lt. Cmdr. David Westerberg knows how to grin and bear it. After a successful 38-year career in dentistry in Southern California, Westerberg wasn’t quite ready to put down his scalers. Watching ...

The team was not wearing the badges when it departed from Turkey on Saturday afternoon. Mario Tama / Getty Images When the Iran team landed in Tijuana, Mexico on Sunday morning, players wore pin ...