Smoke from Canadian wildfires has impacted the air quality throughout United States, including in the northern High Plains, Midwest, Great Lakes, southern Mid-Atlantic and into the Northeast. This has ...

One of the first things you learn in electronics is how to identify a resistor’s value. Through-hole resistors have color codes, and that’s generally where beginners begin. But why are they marked ...

Q: Road signs in construction zones are orange. Aside from color, some look like “mandatory” black-and-white signs, while others look like the yellow “advisory” cautionary and warning signs. So, are ...

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Just as an Ethernet port can have differently colored lights, the cables themselves can also come in an array of colors. It's tough to know what the colors mean, especially since it depends on the ...

It occurred to me that when someone reads my articles or those of another contributor, we often times use terminology that may not be understood fully and thus the thrust of the point gets lost.