In my last post I said I'd steer clear of the whole cold fusion thing until something interesting happens. Well, in the last week something interesting has happened ... Once again, let me do a quick ...

Imagine you own a weather station. Then imagine that after some years have passed, you’ve had to replace one of the sensors multiple times. Your new problem is that the sensor is no longer available.

Science fiction has always needed materials that don't exist. How else do you explain a lightsaber, power a warp drive, or make a superhero's shield indestructible? Over a century of storytelling has ...

Near the beginning of director James Cameron’s “Avatar,” a greedy businessman itching to dig a mine on the planet Pandora utters a line that set some viewers to snicker. “This is why we’re here,” he ...

I think I can speak for PC gamers as a whole when I say when a new AAA title comes out, we love two outcomes: our burly PC runs it at ultra settings like butter, or if it seriously stresses our ...

If you’re a fan of Avatar movies like me, you already know what unobtainium is. For those unfamiliar, it is Pandora’s most valuable resource (from the human’s perspective) and it is the driving factor ...

“Unobtainium” — with apologies to James Cameron, who borrowed it for Avatar’s MacGuffin mineral — is actually much older than the movie. Aerospace engineers coined it in the 1950s as wry shorthand for ...