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A Bike That Runs on Magnets—And No Gears
Engineers sometimes want to do stuff just because they think it’s neat to try. Others would think the…
The World’s Strongest Magnet
Florida’s National High Magnetic Field Laboratory currently houses the world’s strongest magnet laboratory—so strong that even nonmagnetic objects…
The Promise—And Threat—Of Quantum Computers
It’s been said that the future of computers will dive deep into quantum physics. True enough, there are…
How Did Insects Manage to Learn to Fly?
Hundreds of millions of years ago, invertebrates like insects were among the first to venture out of the…
What Makes Us Human?
Scientists say our human DNA is roughly 96-99% identical to that of chimpanzees, our closest living primate relative…
The Science of Rivers
For being surface features of the Earth that seem to have always been there since the dawn of…
The Western United States Blew Up Millions of Years Ago Because of Magma. Why Were There No Extinctions?
An event known as the Mid-Tertiary ignimbrite flare-up caused several volcanic eruptions across the western United States during…
A Probability Problem With Sleeping Beauty and Coins
Rattle your heads a bit with this odd probabilty dilemma with coins and a particularly famous sleeping fairytale…
Were Our Brains Helped Along Its Evolutionary Path By an Asteroid?
Mammals are quite known in the animal world for our pretty “big” brains, so to speak; it supposedly…
Triangular Tanks? An Engineering Curiosity—And as Weird as They Sound
Just when you thought you’ve seen all that engineers have to offer: YouTube creator James Bruton continues his…