The International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) and the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) announce public release of the Model Lighting Ordinance (MLO), a valuable guide for environmentally ...

It’s in your physics textbook, go look. It says that you can either model light as an electromagnetic wave OR you can model light a stream of photons. You can’t use both models at the same time. It’s ...

A decade ago, who could’ve guessed that carmakers would turn dimly-lit cabins into a battleground of LED excess? Yet here we are—ambient lighting is everywhere now. The popularity of these systems ...

The Tesla steering yoke may not be going anywhere. According to a recent report from Teslascope, a refreshed Model 3 could feature a steering wheel or yoke powered by a steer-by-wire system. According ...

This circuit is the basis for the dimmers in a model theatre lighting system which uses touch globes as the light source. The circuit is based around a 555 timer, driving a Triac. This circuit is the ...

Scientists at the University of Oxford demonstrate an approach to interpreting how materials interact with polarized light, ...

There's an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation in which John de Lancie's nearly-omnipotent alien character "Q" is stripped of his powers and banished to the Enterprise as a human because fans of ...

Tesla has identified an issue affecting Model Y vehicles produced for the US market between February 6, 2025 and July 26, 2025. In the subject vehicles, a wiring defect may result in reverse lights ...