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Future Computers Will Be Radically Different
Original Title: We're Building Computers Wrong (for artificial intelligence)
Digital computers have served us well fo…
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How Horses Save Humans From Snake Bites
Alternate Title: "Milking The World's Most Venomous Snake"
To make antivenom, you first need to collect venom from th…
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The Man Who Accidentally Killed The Most People In History
One scientist caused two environmental disasters and the deaths of millions.
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How Electricity Actually Works
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Why It Was So Hard To Take This Picture (Very Long Baseline Interferometry)
Original Title: A Picture of the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole
This is an image of the supermassive black hole,…
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The Absurd Search For Dark Matter
Astronomers think there should be 5 times as much dark matter as ordinary matter – a shadow universe that makes up most …
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The Riddle That Seems Impossible Even If You Know The Answer
The 100 Prisoners Riddle feels completely impossible even once you know the answer.
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The Man Who Killed Millions and Saved Billions
Fritz Haber is the scientist who arguably most transformed the world.
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The 4 things you need to be an expert
Which experts have real expertise?
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World's Highest Jumping Robot
This tiny robot can jump higher than anything else in the world.
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How Dangerous is a Penny Dropped From a Skyscraper?
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The Remarkable Story Behind The Most Important Algorithm Of All Time
The Fast Fourier Transform is used everywhere but it has a fascinating origin story that could have ended the nuclear ar…
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What If A Star Explodes Near The Earth?
People have witnessed supernovae for millennia, but what threat do they pose to life on Earth?
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The world depends on a collection of strange items. They're not cheap
The US Government Sells Human Poop
This government warehouse keeps our entire society up to standard.
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Inside The Navy's Indoor Ocean
The US Navy has an indoor ocean that can simulate any wave in the world.
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How To Measure The Tiniest Forces In The Universe
This lab measures the tiniest forces in the universe.
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I tested the US Military’s secret space weapon
An engineer came up with a plan to drop tungsten telephone poles from space - the idea has been seriously considered on …
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3 Ways Of Seeing Invisible Air Flow
In this lab, they use different flow visualization techniques to help detect contraband, residues, and develop trace par…
