Heisler’s Skinner box-esque chess set was inspired by similarly masochistic DIY projects like an electrified keyboard, and gets its voltage from a reconfigured TENS unit. Short for Transcutaneous ...

Over the last few centuries, behavioral psychologists have documented all kinds of ways of modifying our actions and the ...

A stretchy, conductive type of plastic could help power the next generation of implantable biomedical devices, like longer-lasting pacemakers or glucose monitors, according to Enrique Gomez, professor ...

Let’s start with the simple case: performing an action only when the switch goes active. We’ll assume the switch starts in ...

Until shortly before the coronavirus pandemic, real electricity costs for most American families had been declining for a decade. From 2009 to 2019, the fully loaded cost—that is, the total price per ...

PC gaming giant Valve has delayed announcing the release date of its Steam Machine gaming PC, citing storage and memory shortages and rising prices as the main reason for the delay. In a blog post on ...

While homeowners do everything they can to protect their homes from a winter freeze, how do their appliances hold up? “This weekend in Texas, do not do your laundry,” Instagram user J.R. Minton said ...

AI enhances productivity by automating repetitive tasks, allowing professionals to focus on complex, high-value activities. Effective AI use requires skilled humans to interpret results, validate ...

In this video, we use Gauss’s law to find the electric field of a uniformly charged sphere. We derive the field both inside and outside the sphere, explain the symmetry behind the Gaussian surface ...

The discovery that tissues use electricity to expel unhealthy cells is part of a surge of renewed interest in the currents flowing through our bodies. We’re used to thinking of the brain as an ...

Earlier this week, some people on X began replying to photos with a very specific kind of request. “Put her in a bikini,” “take her dress off,” “spread her legs,” and so on, they commanded Grok, the ...