December 15, 2020
astronomy, astrophysics, Biography, Featured, Hackaday Columns, hydrogen, milky way, stars, the Sun

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Saw Through The Stars

We as humans are limited in the ways we can look at things ourselves, and rely on on the different perspectives and insights of others to help make sense of things. All it takes is one person to look at a data set and find something completely different that changes our fundamental perception of the […]

December 11, 2020
bell x-1, Biography, Chuck Yeager, Featured, History, News, slider, supersonic

Remembering Chuck Yeager: The Supersonic Legend Whose Wings Were Clipped By A High School Diploma

In history there are people whose legacy becomes larger than life. Ask anyone who built and flew the first airplane, and you’d be hard-pressed to find someone who isn’t at least aware of the accomplishments of the Wright brothers. In a similar vein, Chuck Yeager’s pioneering trip into supersonic territory with the Bell X-1 airplane […]

July 23, 2020
Biography, Chemistry, crystal, Featured, History, material science, Original Art, silicon

Jan Czochralski And The Silicon Revolution

If you were to travel back in time to the turn of the previous century and try to convince the average person that the grains of sand on just about any beach would be the basis of an industry worth hundreds of billions of dollars within 100 years, they’d probably have thought you were crazy. […]

Category: Biography

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Saw Through The Stars

Remembering Chuck Yeager: The Supersonic Legend Whose Wings Were Clipped By A High School Diploma

Jan Czochralski And The Silicon Revolution

New Samsung app lets you combat Thermal Throttling in your smartphone

Sony’s Upcoming WF-1000XM4’s Image Has Been Leaked

Apple II Talks To 3D Printer With A Little Modern Help