Aerial view of the ITER site in 2020. (Credit: Macskelek)
" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Iter_2.png?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Iter_2.png?w=800">Doing something for the first time is tough. Yet to replicate the nuclear fusion process that powers the very stars, and do it right here on Earth in a controlled …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/07/06/iter-dreams-and-the-practical-reality-of-making-nuclear-fusion-work-on-earth/)

Growing Simple Crystals for Non-Linear Optics Experiments
https://hackaday.com/2023/07/06/growing-simple-crystals-for-non-linear-optics-experiments/

Here’s an exercise for you: type “crystals” into your favorite search engine and see what you get. If you’re anything like us, you’ll get a bunch of pseudoscientific posts about …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/07/06/growing-simple-crystals-for-non-linear-optics-experiments/)

Adding Portals To Quake
https://hackaday.com/2023/07/06/adding-portals-to-quake/

For those who have played Quake extensively, adding portals seems unnecessary, as teleporters are already a core part of the game mechanics. What [Matthew Earl] accomplishes is more of the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/07/06/adding-portals-to-quake/)

Better Noise Reduction with Science
https://hackaday.com/2023/07/06/better-noise-reduction-with-science/

Most noise-blocking headphones fall into two categories: they use some kind of material to absorb or scatter noise, or they use active cancellation that creates a signal to oppose the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/07/06/better-noise-reduction-with-science/)

Inexpensive Ham Radio Gets Upgrades Thanks to a Trojan
https://hackaday.com/2023/07/06/inexpensive-ham-radio-gets-upgrades-thanks-to-a-trojan/

Love them or hate them, the crop of cheap hand-held amateur radio transceivers is here to stay. They’re generally horrible radios, often smearing spurious emissions across the spectrum, but they’re …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/07/06/inexpensive-ham-radio-gets-upgrades-thanks-to-a-trojan/)

No Moving Parts LiDAR
https://hackaday.com/2023/07/06/no-moving-parts-lidar/

Self-driving cars often use LiDAR — think of it as radar using light beams. One limitation of existing systems is they need some method of scanning the light source around, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/07/06/no-moving-parts-lidar/)

Creating a Joule-Thomson Cryocooler and a Little Bit of History At Home
https://hackaday.com/2023/07/07/creating-a-joule-thomson-cryocooler-and-a-little-bit-of-history-at-home/

The fun part about crycoolers is that there are so many different and exciting ways to make stuff cold, based on a wide variety of physics. This is why after …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/07/07/creating-a-joule-thomson-cryocooler-and-a-little-bit-of-history-at-home/)