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No One Can Throw a Perfect Football Spiral—Here’s Why
Even elite quarterbacks can’t defy physics—subtle wobbles and directional drift in a spiral pass reflect deep aerodynamic principles at work.
How ‘Forever Chemicals’ Took Over the World
The story of “forever chemicals” began with the serendipitous discovery of Teflon in the 1930s. While transforming various…
The Structural Mistake That Nearly Took Down a New York Landmark
A hidden flaw in New York’s Citicorp Center nearly caused a catastrophic collapse—until a daring, secret repair operation turned a potential disaster into a landmark engineering ethics case.
The Hidden Break in Einstein’s Relativity — And How Emmy Noether Solved It
A hidden flaw in Einstein’s relativity led to Emmy Noether’s groundbreaking discovery that symmetries in nature underpin the universe’s conservation laws.
The Man Who Studied Infinity
By proving that some infinities are larger than others, Georg Cantor revolutionized mathematics—introducing the idea of countable and…
The Fall of “Ingenuity”
Ingenuity, initially designed for just five flights over 30 days, completed 72 missions across nearly three years, helping…
How Does Light Move?
Contrary to everyday intuition, particles such as photons and electrons do not follow a single path but instead…
Fancy a Job Interview With Google? You Should Probably Watch This
Google interviewers were known to ask brain teasers to job applicants, with others believing this was their way…
Imaging the Atom
Advances in electron microscopy now allow us to see individual atoms, a feat once thought impossible 30 years…
How AI Is Helping Save Medicine
DeepMind’s AlphaFold 2 solved a decades-old challenge by predicting the 3D structures of over 200 million proteins, drastically…