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How Quantum Computers Break The Internet

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A quantum computer in the next decade could crack the encryption our society relies on using Shor's Algorithm.

How Wildfires Spawn Deadly Firenadoes

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Climate change is causing wildfire season to get worse every year. And our models of wildfires can't keep up with the things fires can do... like spawn devastating fire tornadoes.

Primitive Technology: Iron Bacteria Cement

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I developed a cement made from iron bacteria, then made pots from it to test its ability to set and not dissolve in water.

You Can’t Actually Die Of Old Age

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Despite centuries of death records to the contrary, “dying of old age” is not medically possible; instead, it’s just a convenient catch-all.

World's Strongest Magnet!

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The world's strongest magnet is a million times stronger than Earth's magnetic field. Learn more about sustainability and Google’s efforts at sustainability.google. Part of this video was sponsored by Google.

How Smart Are Crows Actually?

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Have you seen that adorable clip of a raven sledding down a snowy roof? We have, so we took a deep dive into how crows and other corvids exhibit tool use, intelligence, and maybe even consciousness.

The Biology Behind The Last of Us | WIRED

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The infection from HBO's The Last of Us is actually based on a real parasitic fungus. This fungus turns insects into zombies. The creators of the game and the show were inspired by zombie carpenter ants.

The Disease You Will Never Survive

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A simple mis-folding in a certain brain protein causes a disease for which we have no cure.

Why Is Our Moon Two-Faced?

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The near side of the Moon has a thin crust and is covered in maria. The far side has a thick crust and almost no maria.

Can We Capture Greenhouse Gases?

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It’s one thing to say a business is carbon neutral. It’s another to be able to truly account for that carbon at all stages of the production process.

rimitive Technology: Decarburization of iron and forging experiments

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I took a brittle, high carbon/iron alloy (cast iron) made from local ore and used a decarburization method to reduce it's carbon content making it malleable and forged it flat by hammering.

The Weird Sex Lives of Bluegills

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When it comes to the mating game, fish have some of the strangest ways of thwarting the competition.

Black Holes

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Black Holes Aren’t Black or Even Holes. What Are They?

What causes cavities? - Mel Rosenberg

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When a team of archeologists recently came across some 15,000-year-old human remains, they made an interesting discovery: the teeth of those ancient humans were riddled with holes.

The 3 Reasons This Tree Has Lived 5000 Years

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Methuselah’s environment lacks nutrients, water, and oxygen. In other words, it’s the perfect place to grow very very old.

How language shapes the way we think | Lera Boroditsky

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There are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world -- and they all have different sounds, vocabularies and structures.

How Can We Store Renewable Energy?

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Decarbonizing our power production is vitally important if we want to curtail climate change, but there are some major logistical issues we’re going to have to overcome before we can do that.