Featured in august 2011
FYI: Could My Cat Be Allergic To Me?
Cats get seasonal allergies to pollen and grass, and some have year-round allergies to fleas and dust mites. Sandy Willis,...
Video: Testing Project Enclosures Under Extreme Conditions (Read: Fire, Water, and Smashing)
My projects tend to live rough lives. To make it easier to safely house their delicate parts in the future,...
A Personal Beer Brewery That Spouts Pro-Quality Suds In A Week
Most beer drinkers don’t have the time (or inclination) to muddle through the painstaking home-brewing process, but the WilliamsWarn Personal...
Spy vs. Spy: Casinos Can’t See The Cameras Hidden Up Gamblers’ Sleeves
In January, at the newly opened $4-billion Cosmopolitan casino in Las Vegas, a gang called the Cutters cheated at baccarat....
Piloting a Massive Container Ship Takes More Than Just a Few Charts
To plan their routes, the crews of transoceanic cargo ships have to assimilate a huge amount of information: from beacons...
The Panama Canal Gets an Update
The century-old Panama Canal has a major shortcoming: New ships are too long, too deep and too wide to fit...
A Sensor-Packed Shipping Container That Folds Flat in 30 Seconds
In the half-century since Malcom McLean, an entrepreneurial former trucker from North Carolina, first began packing freight onto ships in...
You Built What?! A Homemade Scanning Electron Microscope
The hardest DIY project ever
The Man Who Would Stop Time
Bill Andrews has spent two decades unlocking the molecular mechanisms of aging. His mission: to extend the human life span to 150 years--or die trying
At The End Of The Earth: The Longest, Deepest Oil Wells In The World
On Sakhalin Island, in Russia’s far east, temperatures can fall to 35 degrees below zero. Many islanders herd reindeer. And...