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Thorium Clocks Start Ticking With Lasers - Hackaday

Atomic clocks are super accurate. But, unsurprisingly, some atomic clocks are better than others, depending on your definition of better. Researchers at Vienna University claim to have a superior tho…

Scientists Create Hexagonal Packed Ice At Extreme Pressures - Hackaday

One of the problems with planetary science is that you generally cannot easily investigate the exact conditions in their interior, so you’re left to extrapolate what is happening inside them based on…

That’s No Moon… That’s An Exoplanet! - hackaday.com

It wasn’t that long ago that a science teacher would have told students that there was no evidence of planets around other star systems. Even more recently, they might have said that while we’ve seen…

Open Source Tricorder Is In It For The Science - Hackaday

If you’re reading Hackaday there’s pretty good odds you’re at least somewhat fond of Star Trek. We’d bet good money most of you would quit your jobs today if a Starfleet recruiter showed up. That’s s…

Roman Telescope Saves Fuel, Doubles Mission - Hackaday

Contemplate the events that might end a space mission, and you might picture something dramatic: detonation on the pad, a dead guidance system, or micrometeoroids shattering delicate solar panels. Mo…

Laser Your Way Into Debug Mode On The RP2350 - Hackaday

The RP2350 is actually a pretty secure chip, all things considered. It has secure boot, ARMv8’s TrustZone to split secure and non-secure execution, and you can permanently disable debug the Pi Founda…

The Heavy Disco-Ball Satellite Designed To Do… Nothing - Hackaday

Launched in 1976, LAGEOS-1 (LAser GEOdynamic Satellite) is unusual in that it contains no instrumentation, no electronics, no power supply, and no means of propulsion. It’s spherical, weighs just und…

Hunting The Wild Vibrotruck - Hackaday

A few weeks ago, my wife was out walking the dog, and she sent me four or five photos of small orange boxes planted all around our neighborhood. (OK, Ill bite!) They had little cards on them explaini…

Kelvin–Helmholtz Instabilities Found To Drive Plasma Mixing On The Sun - Hackaday

As easy as the Sun is to observe, it’s simultaneously very hard to study due to how extreme the conditions are, even on the surface of a rather unassuming star. One of these study topics is the inter…

How To Talk To A Machine Without Anthropomorphising It - Hackaday

LLMs remain a divisive topic in these times. Perhaps we all know someone who’s become over-infatuated with their new robotic friend, or who believes it has made them a genius. [Emily M. Bender] and […

Saturn’s South Pole Is Apparently Decagon-Shaped - Hackaday

Saturn’s north pole captured by Cassini in 2013. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill) Although some would argue that the hexagon is the bestagon, astronomers have discovered that Sat…

Creating The Greenest Possible Clothing With Living Fungi - hackaday.com

Despite the wide variety of fabrics used for our clothing, they all share the property of not being living tissues. This could be due to them never having been part of an organism, or having been rem…

Full Teardown Of A 2026 Amazon Fire Stick HD - Hackaday

Die of the Amazon Fire Stick HD (2026) PMIC IC. (Credit: electronupdate, YouTube) After the release of Google’s Chromecast so-called ‘streaming sticks’ have remained a popular form factor, even thou…