Sterilising an antenna for Mars

A ground penetrating radar antenna for ESA’s ExoMars 2020 rover being pre-cleaned in an ultra-cleanroom environment in preparation for its sterilisation process, in an effort to prev...


How to become a Linux security expert?

The more you learn about a subject, the better you realize that there is still much more to learn. That is actually fine, as we typically can be learning by doing things in our own l...


Building a Business on Open Source

WHAT VC INVESTORS WANT Many companies have adopted a particular model around creating and selling open source software: create an open source platform or base and sell proprietary s...


Auditing, Hardening and Security

Linux system hardening takes a good amount of understanding about how the Linux kernel works. After completing this guide, you will know more about: What system hardening means spec...


Physicists create quantum state detector

The terms wave and amplitude imply that the objects described by wave functions behave much like waves. Vladimir Gurtovoi, a senior research scientist at MIPT’s Laboratory of Artific...


Muon machine makes milestone magnetic map

Muon mystery Muon g-2 is following up on an intriguing result seen at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York in the early 2000s, when the experiment made observations of muons t...


ESA centrifuge

A decade ago, as Europe’s Columbus laboratory module was attached to the International Space Station for microgravity research, ESA’s Large Diameter Centrifuge began offering lengthy...


Challenging existing models of black holes

Chris Packham, associate professor of physics and astronomy at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), has collaborated on a new study that expands the scientific community’s ...


Top 4 open source augmented reality SDKs

If you’re interested in joining Swizec and the other developers creating innovative AR projects, take a look at this list of the top four free and open source AR software SDKs you ca...