On the technology spectrum, railroads would certainly seem to skew toward the brutally simplistic side of things. A couple of strips of steel, some wooden ties and gravel ballast to keep everything in ...

A collaborative team led by Prof. Yi Xiong from Wuhan Textile University, Prof. Wei Zeng from Anhui University, and Prof. Shuo Jin from the Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of ...

A couple of months ago I upgraded the imaging camera for my telescope. Specifically, I bought this camera. It works well, but recently I have become concerned that I may have gotten a less than ...

PARIS — Sony Corp. is recalling eight models of its Cyber-shot digital still cameras because of a packaging-related defect in the units' captively manufactured CCD image sensors. Further, an earlier ...

Sensors for basic parameters such as temperature, pressure, voltage, and electrical or magnetic fields is straightforward in concept, the reality is that there are many challenges in their actual ...

One of the hot topics in cosmology these days is the possibility that the universe may be filled with topological defects left over from earlier times. The thinking is that soon after the Big Bang, ...