Light aircraft often use a heading indicator as a way to know where they’re going. Retired instrumentation engineer [Don Welch] recreated a heading indicator of his own, using cheap ...

Gutscher Marc-Andre receives funding from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (the CNRS, his employer), and formerly from the European Research Council (ERC) through an Advanced Grant ...

After Qualcomm’s purchase of Arduino it has left many wondering what market its new Uno Q board is trying to target. Taking the ongoing RAM-pocalypse as inspiration, [Bringus Studios] made a tongue-in ...

Dhruv Bhutani has been writing about consumer technology since 2008, offering deep insights into the Android smartphone landscape through features and opinion pieces. He joined Android Police in 2023, ...

Unfortunately, hail and sleet are far from the only falling objects that may come crashing down on you—you may need to watch out for the growing problem of plummeting space junk. As the number of ...

When a 1.5-ton Chinese spacecraft came screaming back to Earth over Southern California last April, something unexpected happened. While radar lost track and satellites couldn’t see through the fiery ...

Falling space junk is becoming a real-world hazard, and scientists have found a clever new way to track it using instruments already listening to the Earth itself. By tapping into networks of ...

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Forward-looking: The same instruments built to record earthquakes could soon help track spacecraft tearing back through Earth's atmosphere at hypersonic speeds. In a study published in Science, ...

Networks created to measure quakes deep underground could also track old, potentially dangerous satellites burning up in the atmosphere, Johns Hopkins University researchers demonstrated. “We’d like ...

The Seattle Seahawks have installed seismic sensors inside Lumen Field to measure fan-generated ground motion during the 2026 NFL playoffs. The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network (PNSN) set up six ...