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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,…
The Principle of Least Action
The principle of least action underpins all physics, unifying concepts from mechanics and optics to quantum theory. It…
Our Quest to Save Wheat
Wheat rust, a fast-spreading fungal disease, threatens the world’s most widely grown crop, which provides 20% of the…
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…
Where Did All This Water Come From?
During its formation in the protoplanetary disk, Earth was located too close to the Sun for ice to…
The Mammals That Didn’t Make It
Fossil discoveries in China, such as Castorocauda, reveal that mammaliaformes during the Jurassic were far more diverse and…
Our Real-Life “Hobbit” Cousins
Found in 2003 in Liang Bua Cave, Indonesia, Homo floresiensis (“hobbits”) were a diminutive hominin species standing about…
The Surprising Science Behind All “Behinds”
Early hypotheses suggested the anus evolved from a single opening that split or elongated, with some animals developing…