To portray his Marvel supervillain Magneto in the upcoming film Avengers: Doomsday, Sir Ian McKellan sought help from the nation’s top office. When McKellan, 86, was tasked with pretending to demolish ...

People have been recycling batteries in disposable vapes for a while, but BogdanTheGeek has gone a lot of further, converting a specific model of disposable vape into a web server. How is that ...

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New York City developers are seizing an unusual opportunity: converting at least a dozen hotels that housed migrants into new apartments. In Queens, a former Hilton near JFK airport is reopening as ...

Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors, materials that can conduct electricity and are only a few atoms thick, are promising alternatives to the conventional silicon-based semiconductors currently used ...

Fairfax County is converting 37 acres of the Interstate 95 landfill in Lorton into the county’s largest solar array. “The ground we’re standing on now is the closed landfill part of our site — it ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- More than a year ago, then San Francisco Mayor London Breed revealed her plan to add needed housing by converting commercial spaces into residential units. Now, Mayor Daniel ...

Dealing with plastic waste is a real headache. But with a little help, bacteria can turn plastic into a painkiller. The approach could help reduce plastic pollution and curb reliance on the fossil ...

Physicists have reached an unexpected breakthrough: they changed beams of light into a supersolid that flows without normal resistance. This marks a major milestone in condensed matter physics because ...

Generating analog sawtooth waveforms (linear ramp followed by a quick reset to zero) from digital timing signals is a common function. It usually requires a negative supply as sketched in Figure 1, ...