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In a major advance, scientists have found a new and groundbreaking way to force electrons to flow only in one direction in a superconductor.
OmnesViae is a modern route planner based on the roads of the Roman Empire.
Immersive learning creates an interactive environment in which learners have the power to customize their experience.
The Hyperloop is physically possible, but engineering challenges will make its construction very difficult. Also, accidents would be catastrophic.
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.
"I believe our society's gotten to the point where you can't question. You can't provoke. You just have to adhere to consensus."
Stand Together
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.
3mins
Former Harvard professor and best-selling author Todd Rose explains the problem with prestigious colleges and how the future of higher ed could be bright.
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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.