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The hyperloop would be a great idea for a completely flat planet. With topography and infrastructure, it's a very different story.
Now they're pointing the way to future battery technologies.
Atomic clocks keep time accurately to within 1 second every 33 billion years. Nuclear clocks could blow them all away.
Crystallization is an entirely random process, so scientists have developed clever ways to investigate it at a molecular level.
Company culture is always evolving — sometimes for the worse.
Cold War meets Star Wars in this cut-away of a 1950 “rubber bubble,” the first line of defense against nuclear sneak attack.
Capturing energy from clubbers could help power homes and buildings.
We have long thought that Pluto was completely frozen solid, but the discovery of cryovolcanoes challenges that assumption.
Could we finally detect the elusive Unruh effect?
Many contemporary composers live in the shadow of Bach and Beethoven, even though they’re just as interesting to listen to.
The so-called "court painter of Silicon Valley" was shaped by her youth in communist Poland but looks forward to a future ruled by celebrity robots.
Meet the power plant of the future.
Here’s how it works.
It was supposed to have a 5.5-10 year lifetime, and take 6 months to calibrate. It's performing better than anyone anticipated.
Elastic thinking can reveal the assumptions that hamstring our ability to solve seemingly intractable problems.
Every timekeeping device works via a version of a pendulum — even the atomic clocks that are accurate to nanoseconds.
From mobile learning to microlearning, these five methods for training employees are some of the most effective in the modern world of business.
Two types of nanotechnology, metalenses and metamaterials, could soon make Harry Potter's invisibility cloak a reality.
Today, we could use Big Data to radically reform democracy. Tomorrow, we could build nanofabricators and usher in an era of abundance. Is society ready?
Nanofabricators could quickly synthesize whatever we need, molecule by molecule.
Spin, spin, spin — fire! The startup’s radical system could make satellite launches cheaper and cleaner.
Benjamin Franklin's lightning rod saved countless lives, but some religious leaders denounced his invention.
A lucky discovery involving lithium-sulfur batteries has a legitimate chance to revolutionize how we power our world.
A new, easy-to-use, $5-device helps address male infertility. It isolates healthy sperm cells based on their natural behavior.
Standard probiotics cannot compare to the diversity that your microbes have.
This representation of the Bamum kingdom is a rare example of early 20th-century indigenous African cartography.
A community in Austin, Texas is using geothermal energy to keep homes warm in the winter and cool in the summer.
Small spiders use their silk threads to passively fly, a process called ballooning. Learning how could help atmospheric scientists.