Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Cats' gravity-defying grace and exquisite balance extends even to the way they lap milk, say researchers. They analyzed the way cats lap and found that felines of all sizes take advantage of a perfect ...

Even if you don't own a cat you've probably seen one lap up a bowl of milk. Exactly how our feline friends go about doing it has been a scientific mystery, until now: The journal Science has published ...

It seemed like a good idea to build a semiconductor lapping machine from an old hard drive. But there’s just something a little off about [electronupdate]’s build, and we think the Hackaday community ...

If you don't like reading, skip the first two paragraphs after this, they are just the "how I came about this" story.<P> Okay, because I'm a rambler, I'll start with the story. Yesterday morning I got ...

Fishing reels with actions that are rough around the edges can be fixed with a bit of toothpaste and a lot of elbow grease. The rough action may be from lack of machining of the reel’s drive gears.