Why there are twice as many solar jobs as coal jobs
AdultsGlobal WarmingTechnologyWork...America is changing how it gets its energy, and coal is losing out.
Tesla's Model 3 is coming in July - here's everything you need to know
AdultsGlobal WarmingTechnologyTransportation...Tesla is gearing up for the big reveal of the Model 3, its first mass-market car. CEO Elon Musk unveiled the car in March of 2016, but Tesla will show off the production version of the sedan in July. The summer premiere will offer the roughly 400,000 customers who preordered the vehicle a chance to see the final version before deliveries begin at the end of the year.
Revolutionizing Heart Surgery With Virtual Reality
AdultsBiologyHealthTechnologyHave you ever wondered what it would be like to take a ride through the human body on the Magic School Bus? Well, a new bit of virtual reality technology is taking that concept and applying it to medical training. Doctors can now teleport inside the human heart and practice surgery over and over again, and this training could revolutionize the future of health care.
Meet NASA's new class of astronauts
AdultsScienceTechnologySpaceMore than 18,300 candidates applied to be astronauts in NASA's latest class-smashing the record of 8,000 applicants in 1978-and only 12 got the job. Here's who made the cut.
Jumping Water Droplets Could Be the Future of Cooling Computers
AdultsSoftware EngineeringTechnologyEngineering...Engineers have created a new water-based cooling system that could put an end to electronics crashing and overheating.
This Is Not What Space Looks Like
AdultsPhotographySpaceTechnology...Amazing images of the far reaches of the universe are everywhere, but are they accurate? What does space really look like?
NASA Is Going to the Sun! But How...and Why?
AdultsScienceSpaceTechnologyIn 2018, NASA will launch a solar probe that will travel closer to the sun than any spacecraft before. But why? What are they looking for?
Why don't perpetual motion machines ever work? - Netta Schramm
AdultsScienceTechnologyWork...Perpetual motion machines - devices that can do work indefinitely without any external energy source - have captured many inventors' imaginations because they could totally transform our relationship with energy. There's just one problem: they don't work. Why not? Netta Schramm describes the pitfalls of perpetual motion machines.
Four inventions that might change the world
AdultsCreativityFutureScience...Tiny lab-grown organs. A spongy cloth that absorbs oil spills. Sure, why not. These are some of the finalists for the European Inventor Award.
Moore's Law Is Ending... So, What's Next?
AdultsFutureSoftware EngineeringTechnology...Scientists are engineering a new, more efficient generation of computer chips by modeling them after the human brain.
Storing the Sun's Energy in Liquid Could Change Solar Forever
AdultsGlobal WarmingTechnologyScience...Researchers have just found two new ways to make solar power more efficient. Could this solve our energy crisis?
We Found Another State of Matter: The Supersolid!
AdultsScienceTechnologyPhysicsScientists have created, yet another state of matter called a supersolid! But what is it, and what does it do?
A Robot Just Performed the First-Ever Surgery Inside the Human Eye
AdultsHealthTechnologyScienceA surgeon uses controls to guide the robot.
BLADE RUNNER 2049 - Official Trailer
AdultsFilmFutureMarketing...Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.
Climate Lab - Climate Lab - Why your old phones collect in a junk drawer of sadness
AdultsGadgetsGlobal WarmingTechnology...Smartphones shouldn't be so disposable. Could fixing the way we make our phones help solve climate change?
Thin underwater cables hold the internet. See a map of them all.
AdultsInternet CultureTechnologyWorldYour internet isn't just underwater. It's also covered in Vaseline.
What are the challenges of nuclear power? - M. V. Ramana and Sajan Saini
AdultsGlobal WarmingTechnologyEnergy...Our ability to mine great amounts of energy from uranium nuclei has led some to bill nuclear power as a plentiful, utopian source of electricity. But rather than dominate the global electricity market, nuclear power has declined from a high of 18% in 1996 to 11% today. What happened to the great promise of this technology? M.V. Ramana and Sajan Saini detail the challenges of nuclear power.