Dull scissors? These at-home sharpening methods actually work

Learn how to tell if your scissors are dull or damaged—and the simple sharpening techniques that can bring them back to life.
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Weapons the U.S. Military Issued Despite Known Design Problems

Wars are rarely fought with perfect equipment. Throughout history, militaries have fielded weapons they knew were flawed, ...

Eugene YMCA building in disrepair? What to know about $1.2M lawsuit

"These defects have resulted in significant property damage" worth an estimated $1.2 million, the lawsuit said. The YMCA ...

Turning crystal flaws into quantum highways: A new route towards scalable solid-state qubits

Building large-scale quantum technologies requires reliable ways to connect individual quantum bits (qubits) without ...
Semiconductor Engineering

The Design Challenges Of Clock Integrity And Clock Jitter

Races, missed next-state values due to long paths, and metastability can result from corrupted clock signals. This post describes the challenges of clock network and clock jitter analysis in more ...
pv magazine International

Solar modules under pressure: The growing risk of spontaneous glass breakage

Once considered isolated incidents, spontaneous glass breakages in solar modules are becoming more frequent, highlighting the limits of some manufacturing choices and the need for closer quality ...

Kitchen countertop workers are dying. Some lawmakers want to ban their lawsuits

Some safety experts want California to stop the cutting of quartz countertops saying it can't be done safely. Lawmakers, ...