The science is unsettled, but researchers say there is cause for concern. Tiny plastic particles like these—called microplastics—are added to some exfoliating skincare gels and can get into the ...

Abstract: This article proposes an automatic methodology for the design of a sequential load-modulated balanced amplifier (SLMBA), which takes corrections for its output combiner’s (a 90° hybrid) ...

It was born after years of dealing with all sorts of different types of caches: memory, distributed, hybrid, HTTP caching, CDNs, browser cache, offline cache, you name it. So I tried to put together ...

Abstract: In this study, a hybrid embedded metasurface (MTS) structure is proposed and applied to realize a miniaturized MTS antenna. In contrast to the conventional periodic rectangular MTS, the ...

The easiest way to add restaurant-level serveware to your home. Some serving pieces feel too precious to use every day. They sit in the cabinet until a holiday rolls around, then get boxed back up ...

Discover the challenge of modifying an IKEA ceramic blade and creating a custom abrasive-resistant file guide. From inspiration to design, see how scrap steel becomes a durable tool for precise ...

IBM just released Granite 4.0, an open-source LLM family that swaps monolithic Transformers for a hybrid Mamba-2/Transformer stack to cut serving memory while keeping quality. Sizes span a 3B dense ...