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Designing Beasts Made of Corner Store Hardware
Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests are wind-powered “walking skeletons” crafted from basic materials like tape and zip ties. With innovations…
The Glass That Enables Our Modern Tech
Gorilla Glass, a breakthrough innovation, enhances glass’s strength and scratch resistance through an ion exchange process. This method,…
Amelia Earhart’s Fated Flight
Amelia Earhart’s disappearance during her 1937 Pacific flight was primarily due to miscommunication and technical mishaps, including reliance…
Is This Torpedo “Impossible?”
The Brennan torpedo, developed 140 years ago, featured an external power source instead of an internal one, using…
Finally, the Science of Rainbows
Rainbows are optical phenomena caused by light refracting, reflecting, and dispersing through raindrops. Each raindrop creates a cone…
We’re Taking a Trip Around Europa
NASA’s Europa Clipper mission, set for launch in 2024, aims to investigate Jupiter’s moon Europa as a prime…
The Simplest Yet Unsolvable Math Problem
The Collatz conjecture involves a sequence where a number is divided in half if even or multiplied by…
The Principle of Least Action
A foundational principle underlies all of physics, asserting that particles and light move along paths that minimize a…
Understanding Dogs’ Extraordinary Olfactory Sense
U.S. government labs use airflow visualization with mirrors, lights, and lasers to track particles, enabling them to trace…
The World Was Built With This Chemical Reaction
The thermite reaction, discovered by Hans Goldschmidt in the late 1800s, releases immense heat, reaching temperatures over 2,000°C.…