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Science is less about sudden discoveries and more about constant, often frustrating work. It progresses through failed experiments, results that need to be repeated, and questions that take years, sometimes decades, to answer. This category focuses on how scientific knowledge is built, tested, challenged, and refined over time. Interesting Engineering’s coverage includes fundamental and applied … Read more

A Pirate’s Life: Every year, the Entertainment Software Association calls on U.S. regulators to address specific problems the video game industry is said to be facing. This year’s list includes some really interesting targets, starting with Chinese-made handheld gaming devices that come with extensive catalogs of pirated game ROMs. The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) recently … Read more

A major laboratory in the United States has developed a new tool that can help manufacturers make engine technology decisions amid critical material shortages. The tool, called Motor Decide, is designed to help industries evaluate electric motor technologies and make informed decisions under uncertain market conditions. “Many companies make technology decisions based largely on market … Read more

In context: Digital sovereignty is becoming an increasingly important issue in many parts of the world, and Mozilla is now looking to reposition its open source browser as a reliable alternative to big tech products like Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers. Mozilla has just launched a brand new offering for its European customers. Firefox Enterprise … Read more

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Caltech have developed a chip-scale optical gyroscope that can detect rotations as low as 37 degrees per hour, nearly 2,000 times slower than an earlier silicon nitride design. The result brings the sensor closer to measuring the Earth’s rotation rate of 15 degrees per hour. It … Read more

TL;DR: Overdrive, the unofficial PS5 store that went viral over the weekend for offering pirated copies of PlayStation games, has reportedly been shut down by its developer after receiving a legal notice from Sony (but he couldn’t have expected anything else). While online, it built a catalog of more than 1,600 free PS4 and PS5 … Read more

A team of Japanese researchers has obtained silicon carbide (SiC) crystals at about 1,472°F, which is twice lower than the temperatures at which commercial production begins. ​Typically, in an industrial facility, the purest form of SiC is obtained at temperatures up to 4,500°F. However, at such high processing temperatures, forming and controlling its porous structure … Read more