Magnetic Micro-Robots
AdultsCreativityScience...Tiny robots activated by magnetic fields may be used in future biomedical procedures.
People are Manipulating You on Facebook
AdultsHumanPsychology...Thank you Facebook for being so open to this discussion.
Elon Musk and Gayle King test drive his new Boring Company tunnel
AdultsTechnologyTransportation...From electric cars to spacecraft, tech titan Elon Musk is widely known as an industry disrupter. Tuesday night in Los Angeles, Musk unveiled the very first tunnel in what he hopes will become a network of underground highways.
Why It Is What Time It Is (The History of Time)
AdultsHistoryScience...How did we come up with our system of telling time? Why do we divide the day into 24 hours of 60 minutes each, and put 60 seconds in each minute? Where does the definition of a second come from? And who decides what clock shows the correct time? There's clearly a lot of questions when it comes to time.
How to Build a 4K Editing Computer
AdultsData ScienceDesign...The fast rendering capability of this new machine actually let me eat dinner with my family on the first night I used it. This is incredibly important to me.
What if cracks in concrete could fix themselves?
AdultsConstructionScience...Concrete is the most widely used construction material in the world. It can be found in swathes of city pavements, bridges that span vast rivers and the tallest skyscrapers on earth.
What's a smartphone made of?
AdultsEnvironmentTechnologyAs of 2018, there are around 2.5 billion smartphone users in the world. If we broke open all the newest phones and split them into their component parts, that would produce around 85,000 kg of gold, 875,000 of silver, and 40,000,000 of copper.
Cannon Shock Waves in Ultra Slow Motion
AdultsPhotographyTechnologyWhat does a cannon ball look like being shot in super slow motion?
What Do Raindrops Really Look Like?
AdultsScienceTechnology...What do raindrops look like? Exactly how we drew them as kids, right? Wrong! Teardrop-shaped rain is physically impossible. This week I went inside a vertical wind tunnel to bring you the true shape of rain.
This Toy Can Open Any Garage
AdultsCybersecurityData Science...Or almost any garage - it's particularly good with fixed code gates and garages. Samy proposes other weaknesses with rolling codes.
How iPhone Changes the Smartphone Market Every Year
AdultsGadgetsTechnologyThe launch of Apple's iPhone X brought face recognition, animoji, and the notch into the mainstream. Many of these features appeared before Apple incorporated them into their phone, but once Apple does it everyone seems to follow along.
Bird Taking Off at 20,000 fps
AdultsFilmTechnology...Its incredible how many things you can learn from having a camera like this.
Primitive Technology: Iron prills
AdultsHistoryTechnology...Primitive Technology: Iron prills - Creating Iron prills from scratch
How Black Panther's Visual Effects Were Made | WIRED
AdultsFilmTechnology...Daryl Sawchuk, Visual Effects Supervisor for Method Studios and Animation Supervisor for Black Panther, gives WIRED an exclusive look at breakdowns of the digital Black Panther and Kilmonger suits, and the final fight scene of Marvel's mega-blockbuster.