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How the resistors put computing into 1960s counter-culture

In late April of 1968, a computer conference in Atlantic City, N.J., got off to a rocky start. A strike by telephone ...
Interesting Engineering

Super steel breakthrough could protect nuclear reactors from lead corrosion at 1472°F

KTH finds corrosion is driven by an ultra-thin liquid lead film, which dissolves nickel and makes steel porous and weak.
Nanowerk

Researchers find that a 'design limitation' in transistors actually improves performance

What many engineers once saw as a flaw in organic electronics could actually make these devices more stable and reliable, ...