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Despite the sun's endless supply of power, most people still draw their electricity from non-renewable sources like coal and gas since paneling a home can cost way up in the thousands-of-dollars range.

Japanese scientists from Osaka University have just fired the world's most powerful laser beam. The Osaka University's Institute of Laser Engineering managed to produce a a 2-petawatt  (2 quadrillion-watt)  laser beam using the its Laser…

There are a ton of 3D-printing projects out there. A simple Google search can pull up a million for you or you can head over to a maker community like Thingiverse and browse through other people's projects.

Vishay Intertechnology Extends Rated Voltage of 157 PUM-SI Snap-in Power Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitors to 500 V for Solar Inverters and Industrial Motor Control

Pentek, Inc introduced its new FlexorSet: a series of integrated FMC sub-systems combining its Flexor line of FMC modules and Virtex-7 FPGA FMC carriers.

Texas Instruments introduced the industry’s first current-sense amplifier to integrate a high-precision, low-drift shunt resistor, which can deliver highly accurate measurements over a wide temperature range.

Mouser Electronics is now stocking the ETX-BT Modules from ADLINK Technology. These Computer-on-Module (COM) devices are designed around the Intel Atom System on Chip (SoC) and include standard functions required for almost any application,…

Solar energy is on the rise — it's no secret. Everywhere you look there are homes with solar panels on the roofs and new energy-efficient buildings popping up all over the place.

Power outages are a nuisance. Depending on when one hits, people can be left with no air conditioning, no heat, no lights, and most importantly, no way to charge their cellphone (unless you want to sit in the car and wait for it to charge).

When you take out your smartphone to snap a photo of a 3D object, what you get back is a two-dimensional image. A 3D-scanner company called Matter and Form has created a smartphone attachment that turns any ordinary smartphone or tablet…