All items tagged with science and technology (15)

| We heavily rely on the electromagnetic spectrum for our wireless data communications but few of us stop to realize we're permanently wading...

| Supercomputer company Cray will build a computer that will likely be able to perform around 1 million billion (!) calculations a second (a p...

| Since the early 1890s, man has pioneered the technique of converting wind power into useful electricity. The development of engineering s...

| It is widely believed that electromagnetic fields can affect biological systems, including man, although the evidence remains equivocal. Qu...

| Some methods used in electronics are based on models that cannot, in fact, be the case. For example, currents flow continuously and yet co...

| An interim standard for Digital Short Range Radio (DSRR) has been approved recently by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute...

| Many is the time when a strange, unexpected or distorted waveform appears on your oscilloscope screen. A lot of head scratching and book...

| The logic relation 'exactly two of a,b,c, are true', or ((a,b,c,)), can perform all standard logic functions: for example, a = not b is (...

| Experiments undertaken by British Telecom (BT) research engineers portend a dramatic increase in the communications carrying capacity of...

| The array of human sensory apparatus is without question a marvel of adaptive evolution. In particular, Nature has evolved masterful syst...