Stereophile

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I am the world’s worst consumer. Not only have I made more than my share of disastrous purchase decisions, I’m also inexplicably luckless: If there’s one defective sample or repack in an inventory, it will find me. I’m also a deceit magnet, and I’m s

How It Works

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No sunlight means the atoms remain at rest. Electrons will only break free when sunlight excites their parent atoms. Without free-moving electrons, electricity can’t be generated. Sunlight agitates the atoms until their electrons are set free. Not al

Organic NZ

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The rollout of 5G (fifth generation) wireless technology has begun in New Zealand. Its main benefit is massively boosted data flow essential for the ‘internet of things’ (IOT). Think artificial intelligence (AI): machine-tomachine wireless communicat

CQ Amateur Radio

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Feeling a bit bored? Still mostly stuck at home, with mostly quiet HF bands (or rather, mostly noise)? Luckily for you, your monthly dose of ham radio therapy is here! Let’s do some exploring together, both in the pages of this issue and on your radi

Stereophile

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I had never been alone with a Russian-manufactured 6C33C tube. At least not at night, in the dark. The first night Balanced Audio Technology’s VK-56SE tubed amplifier was in my system, I sat on the floor studying the unusual shape and dark orange glo

How It Works

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■ If the Earth was stripped of all the layers of rock, just leaving its nickel-iron core, it would be a metal planet itself. As it is, its composition is dominated by rock, and the same is true of most planets of a similar size. The closest to a ‘met

CQ Amateur Radio

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While thinking of a suitable topic for this month, I remembered an interesting experiment we did many years ago that I might have mentioned before. At that time, we needed a microwave signal to test a surplus microwave cavity we had obtained from a s

CQ Amateur Radio

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While it would be rather premature to make definite plans for post-war amateur radio, it is never too early to review the situation as it now stands. At the recent FCC frequency allocation hearings, recommendations were made by ARRL, RTPB and IRAC wh

Popular Mechanics South Africa

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Carve a small notch in the middle of a bar of soap that has moisturiser. Put the soap in the microwave, turn it on, and a bubble will grow out of the notch, which will become big enough to fill the entire microwave. The microwave is heating up water

Guitar Magazine

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Have a burning question about your amp, or worse still, a burning amp? Email us at editors@guitar.com Hi Chris. Is it true that I can damage my amp by not using the standby switch? And if so, why don’t all amps have them? PAUL, TORQUAY Valves have be

CQ Amateur Radio

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Pull up a chair, get your coffee out of the microwave and let’s have a little (very little?) talk about very little radio waves … better known as microwaves. Is any component of your ham station set up to transmit and/or receive above 1 GHz? If so, a

Science Illustrated

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1 Power from a battery is connected to a magnetron in which electron motions are converted into oscillations by means of a magnetic field, producing microwaves in a metal pipe that functions as a waveguide. 2 The metal pipe’s height is halved, so the

CosBeauty Magazine

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Cellulite – it’s not pretty whatever you call it. Common names for cellulite are orange-peel skin, cottage-cheese skin, dimples and hail damage. While the exact cause of cellulite is unknown, it appears to result from an interaction between the conne

Guitar World

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STREET PRICE: Starting at $89 MANUFACTURER: Distributed in North America by ILIO, Overloud.com •The Amp Tweaks feature allows users to swap preamp tubes or diodes, power amp tubes or types (solid-state, Class A/AB) and adjust Variac voltage. •The

CQ Amateur Radio

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As our 75th anniversary approaches next year, we’ve been doing quite a bit of looking back over the past three-quarters of a century worth of CQ magazine. One of the most consistent things we’ve noticed is the extent to which — from the very first is

Futurity

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Physicists have observed surprisingly strong light and high heat from nanogaps between plasmonic electrodes, particularly those made of gold. Seeing the light emerge from a nanoscale experiment didn’t come as a big surprise to the physicists, but it

CQ Amateur Radio

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The British poet, John Masefield, penned the line in his poem Sea Fever, “And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.” Masefield’s line, combined with the adage, “Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you fe

Futurity

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Scientists have demonstrated how to view many-particle interactions in graphene using infrared light. Electrons in graphene—an atomically thin, flexible, and incredibly strong substance that has captured the imaginations of materials scientists and p

Futurity

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Terahertz frequency data links can bounce off walls without dropping too much data, new research shows. The results are good news for the possibility of future terahertz wireless data networks, which have the potential to carry many times more data t

Nautilus

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An earthquake shook the central Italian city of L’Aquila in the early morning of April 6, 2009. In the months that followed, scientists collected dozens of accounts from people who claimed to have seen “luminous phenomena” both before and after the s

Futurity

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Atomic physicists have verified a key prediction from a 55-year-old theory about one-dimensional electronics that is increasingly relevant because of the quest for smaller and smaller devices. “Chipmakers have been shrinking feature sizes on microchi

Futurity

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A “traffic light” that can bring quantum waves to a halt could be key to harnessing the potential of the atomic world, researchers report. Their findings could eventually lead to breakthroughs in computing, medicine, cryptography, materials science,

Futurity

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While tracking electrons moving through exotic materials, researchers have discovered intriguing properties not found in conventional, silicon-based semiconductors. Unlike current silicon-based electronics, which shed most of the energy they consume

Science Illustrated

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The generator consists of two materials: one with surplus electrons and one with a shortage (a lack of electrons in atoms is also known as ‘holes’). One side of the circuit is heated by decaying plutonium. The heat makes electrons and holes move towa

Australian HiFi

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We now have a select range of the new PrimaLuna products on display – and we still have some remnants of the previous series left at clearance prices, check the specials section of our website! This brand of valve-based electronics has become synonym

Hi Fi News

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MM/MC hybrid tube phono preamp Made by: European Audio Team, Prague, Czech Republic Supplied by: Absolute Sounds Ltd Telephone: 0208 971 3909 Web: www.europeanaudioteam.com; www.absolutesounds.com Price: £1249 Atransistor/tube hybrid costing £1249, t

Futurity

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New research shows that it’s possible to steal data undetected from terahertz wireless links, even though those links involve beam transmissions from the transmitter to the receiver. The research indicates terahertz data links, which may play a role

Guitar Magazine

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Have a burning question about your amp or, worse still, a burning amp? Email us at editors@guitar.com Last time around, I researched, designed and populated the component board of my long-gestating EH-185 clone. Now it’s time to start work on the cha

Organic NZ

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The rollout of the 5G cellular network needs to be stopped, as there is enough science on microwave radiofrequency (RFR) radiation to invoke the precautionary principle, said Dr Dariusz Leszczynski during a visit to New Zealand in November. Dr Leszcz

Futurity

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The first visualization of the electronic structure in a microelectronic device may open up opportunities for finely tuned, high-performance devices, report researchers. Physicists developed a technique to measure the energy and momentum of electrons