Portable generators can keep critical devices and appliances powered during an outage. Our top picks include solar, gas, and ...

Chauncey grew up on a farm in rural northern California. At 18 he ran away and saw the world with a backpack and a credit card, discovering that the true value of any point or mile is the experience ...

A design idea for a white-noise generator is realized and revised. Two low-noise amplifiers (LNAs) in cascade amplify the noise produced by a reverse-biased Zener diode operating in junction-breakdown ...

Residential standby generators are indispensable and potentially life saving, especially in storm-prone regions of Texas and Florida. But they are ridiculously loud. Under full load, whole-house ...

Around 1990, Chattanoogan Sam Hall and his wife bought a mechanical white-noise generator to help them sleep after a neighbor's dog began yapping incessantly at night. Mark Kennedy is a veteran ...