If you read about Hall effect sensors — the usual way to detect and measure magnetic fields these days — it sounds deceptively simple. There’s a metal plate with current flowing across it in one ...

HOUSTON — Jones Hall for the Performing Arts, which is the downtown home of the Houston Symphony and Performing Arts Houston, is set to undergo its latest round of improvements. The Foundation for ...

As City Hall continues layoffs tied to a projected $222 million budget deficit, a recently laid off employee in the city’s Office of Resilience and Sustainability is speaking publicly — raising ...

A fight over an affordable housing project in Los Angeles may soon affect much more than the fate of a beachside public parking lot. State investigators are threatening to cut the city’s access to ...

The concept of building your own hydroelectric generator seems simple at face value: use gravity to impart as much force as possible onto a turbine, which spins a generator, thus generating ...