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.
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?
Japan's robot volleyball team
AdultsSportsTechnologyOne thing stands between Japan and the Volleyball World Cup: a team of robot jocks.
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?
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.
Using GPS to Get Around Is Making Us Dumber
AdultsHumanScienceTechnology...GPS services have made getting from point A to point B a lot easier, but what effects does this have on our brains?
Meet the Man Who Strapped Himself to a Rocket, For Science
AdultsHealthPhysicsTechnology...One man's quest to test the human limits of gravity on the human body.
Hackers Can Now Break Into Your Phone Using Music
AdultsMusicSoftware EngineeringTechnology...New research shows sound waves can manipulate the accelerometer in your phone; what implications does this have for data security?
Graphene Could Solve the World's Water Crisis
AdultsFutureNatureTechnology...Turning saltwater into clean drinking water is an expensive, energy-intensive process, but could the wonder material graphene make it more accessible?
How Google's featured answers can go terribly wrong
AdultsInternet CultureSoftware EngineeringTechnology...Why Google search once said Obama was a king and dinosaurs weren't real.
100 Years of Home Innovation ? Mode.com
AdultsGadgetsHistoryTechnologyIncluding toasters, radios, and microwave ovens, there have been a number of life-changing household breakthroughs through the years. Follow along to see the smartest appliances and laborsaving devices that have emerged in the last century.
Charge Your Cell Phone In 5 Seconds
AdultsGadgetsTechnologyFutureSupercapacitors: They'll enable you to charge your cell phone in 5 seconds, or an electric car in about a minute. They're cheap, biodegradable, never wear out and as Trace'll tell you, could be powering your life sooner than you'd think.
Amazing Images of a Changing Earth
AdultsSpaceTechnologyWorld...Incredible before-and-after satellite images of our dynamic planet.
Illuminating the Universe: The History of Light
AdultsHistoryTechnologyScience...Beyond what we can touch, taste, smell, and hear, we experience the universe through light. But how did we come to discover light, and how did we learn light's true nature, as the fastest thing in the universe, an electromagnetic spectrum, a wave and particle capable of the most amazing things? Here is the history of light, according to physics.