Far safer than quills packed with gunpowderIn 1831, Cornishman William Bickford patented the safety fuse. This simple invention, which is a length of string containing gunpowder coated in tar ...

Every AVR microcontroller, from the ATtiny in your thermostat to the ATMega in your Arduino, stores its configuration in a series of fuse bits. These fuse bits control settings such as the ...

A woman claims a creepy ceramic clown purchased at a car boot sale is responsible for a series of mysterious incidents.

The fuse keeps burning, making its way toward the ... with tissue paper rolled around a trail of black powder. Later, string embedded with gunpowder was used. Today, electrical wires connect ...

String theory is perhaps the most high-profile candidate for what physicists call a theory of everything – a single mathematical framework capable of describing the entirety of the known universe.

A fuse breaks the circuit if a fault in an appliance causes too much current to flow. This protects the wiring and the appliance from overheating, and possibly starting a fire, if something goes ...

The Supreme Court had said “thousands, even a lakh of crackers on one string going off at night, and several such strings ...

In this video, Ardeshir demonstrates six of his favourite nylon-string examples at both fast and slower tempos and we have ...

How would you summarize your study for a lay audience? Our study introduces a new tool called FUSE (Functional Substitution Estimation) that helps scientists better understand how changes in genes ...

One of Japan's most exciting modern piano flamenco bands, TRANSFORMACIÓN, is coming to Guangzhou on October 27. Founded in 2020, the young the group has wowed audiences in Japan and Spain with their ...

Out of the very best outdoor Christmas lights, the Brizled Christmas String Lights are our favorite overall. Available in three different lengths, the LED bulbs—which have 11 lighting modes ...