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Storm Kings
Creating fearsome weather, indoors.
9 min |
July - August 2017
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Born [Not] To Run
Police Cruisers And Getaway Cars Are Racing Toward An Unknown Future.
7 min |
Winter 2018
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How To Get Ready For Hurricanes, Tsunamis, Floods, and Earthquakes
Seismologist Lucy Jones is on a crusade to prepare us—and our infrastructure—for the next Big One.
5 min |
Winter 2018
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The Winding, Heated, And Absurdly Technical Oral History Of The Ginger Emoji
In November 2014, a tech-industry consortium announced a new set of emoji that would diversify the physical appearance of the pictograms.EMMA KELLY, editor and founder of the site Ginger Parrot: I checked and saw that redheads were just not on there. I wondered, has no one brought this up? Is there no one at Apple with red hair? Has everyone forgotten about Ed Sheeran?
10+ min |
Fall 2018
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Save Your Soles
YOU PROBABLY DON’T WANT TO WEAR THAT PAIR OF BLOWN out Converse All-Stars to amble anywhere farther than the corner store. For long treks, the proper footwear will support your dogs and grip the ground to prevent sore soles, painful blisters, and mangled ankles. These four choices will carry you for many miles over different types of terra firma.
1 min |
Spring 2019
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Getting There
Public transportation is great—if you have access to it. Now cities are starting to think about how to help people with the first and last miles of their travels.
10+ min |
Spring 2019
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How To Create A Robot Icon
Engineers built seven versions of BB- 8 for filming, plus one for red carpet events.
5 min |
December 2015
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Bitcoin: The Future Of Money
Currency has gone from cows to coins to paper to plastic. The next big disruption? We could all be spending digital dough.
10 min |
January - February 2016
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Designing The Robot Next Door
When you spend time, money and emotional capital providing care, you don’t have to go it alone.
3 min |
January - February 2016
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Everyone Will Be A Gamer in the Future
Keep struggling with the same issues? Charlotte Haigh MacNeil explains how to break free.
3 min |
March - April 2016
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Are We Ready for Designer Babies?
Did you get enough shut-eye last night? With insomnia on the rise, the answer is probably ‘no’. But what exactly is keeping you awake? Anna Pointer finds out.
2 min |
March - April 2016
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Want To Live Forever? Science Takes On Aging
Want more birthdays? Science can help.
10+ min |
March - April 2016
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How ISIS Is Taking War to Social Media
ISIS goes viral - and the world fights back.
10+ min |
March - April 2016
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Edward Snowden: The Internet Is Broken
Edward Snowden on our digital naiveté.
6 min |
May - June 2016
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How to Re-Create the First Intercontinental Weapon
DIY-history columnist William Gurstelle gives bygone weapons a modern spin.
1 min |
May - June 2016
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Welcome To Drone-kota
A cottage industry wants to put North Dakota on the map.
10+ min |
May - June 2016
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Your Next Vacation Could Be To 100,000 Feet
Your next vacation could be to 100,000 feet - Balloons like this one will tow a capsule that has seating for six passengers and...a bar.
10+ min |
August 2015
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The Race To Build The Hyperloop
Elon Musk proposed a ridiculously audacious form of transportation. Now, startups are racing to bring the hyperloop to life.
10+ min |
July 2015
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Mission Europa - Jupiter Or Bust
Jupiter's ocean-filled moon might hold the life we've long searched for in space. And scientists have one shot to reach it.
10+ min |
September 2015
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Let's Talk About Martians
We found the perfect excuse to geek out on exploring Mars - in science fiction and real life. And we invited the director of The Martian to join us.
7 min |
October 2015
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Where The Buffalo No Longer
DESPITE WHAT SEEMS LIKE A CONSERVATION SUCCESS STORY, OUR NATIONAL MAMMAL MIGHT STILL BE AT RISK.
10+ min |
Summer 2019
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Rise Of The Plastic Eaters
Scientists have new hope that nature might hold a solution for our most problematic polymers
10+ min |
Summer 2019
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The Incredible! Shrinking! Airplane!
Jets are getting bigger, yet, inch by inch, our personal space dwindles. How the %*#+ does that work?
10+ min |
Fall 2018
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Shamu Dreams Of Europa
The microscope that could look for life on Jupiter’s moon.
10+ min |
Fall 2018
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​​​​​​​Dirty Little Secret
Meet the wee, multilegged chefs behind the world’s most sought-after loaves.
7 min |
Fall 2018
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Looking Sharp
WHEN SETI RESEARCHER FRANCK MARCHIS WAS A KID IN France, he looked at Saturn for the first time through a telescope and saw the planet magnified from a speck in the night sky to a beautifully ringed orb.
2 min |
Fall 2018
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The Incredible! Shrinking! Airplane!
Jets are getting bigger, yet, inch by inch, our personal space dwindles. How the %*#+ does that work?
10+ min |
Fall 2018
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How A Sand Scientist Helped Win World War II
A tale of innovation, war, and glory.
10+ min |
Fall 2018
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Sm​​​​​all Stunts Can Do A Big Number On Your Brain
The science behind the impossible room.
1 min |
Fall 2018
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Dirty Little Secret
Meet the wee, multilegged chefs behind the world’s most sought-after loaves.
7 min |