Why It Is What Time It Is (The History of Time)
Adults TechnologyHow 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.
Non-Invasive Brain Surgery
Adults TechnologyScientists have combined ultrasound, viruses and synthetic drugs to control regions of the brain.
What are the Effects of Tablets and Smartphones on Babies’ Brains?
Adults TechnologyOften we concentrate on showing the negative effective of new technologies on the development of babies, but could tablets, smartphones and other touchscreen devices help improve their motor skills?
How to Build a 4K Editing Computer
Adults TechnologyThe 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?
Adults TechnologyConcrete 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?
Adults TechnologyAs 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
Adults TechnologyWhat does a cannon ball look like being shot in super slow motion?
What Do Raindrops Really Look Like?
Adults TechnologyWhat 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
Adults TechnologyOr almost any garage - it's particularly good with fixed code gates and garages. Samy proposes other weaknesses with rolling codes.
How We Could Build a Moon Base TODAY
Adults TechnologyDid you know that we could start building a Lunar Base today?
How iPhone Changes the Smartphone Market Every Year
Adults TechnologyThe 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.
The AMAZING Design of the Parker Solar Probe
Adults TechnologyDustin tells about the Parker Solar Probe on Smarter Every Day
Bird Taking Off at 20,000 fps
Adults TechnologyIts incredible how many things you can learn from having a camera like this.
Primitive Technology: Iron prills
Adults TechnologyPrimitive Technology: Iron prills - Creating Iron prills from scratch
How Black Panther's Visual Effects Were Made | WIRED
Adults TechnologyDaryl 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.
Is Drifting Really Fast and Furious?
Adults TechnologyVin Diesel and the rest of the Fast and Furious family have taught us that drifting is the fastest way around turns, but are they actually wrong?
Primitive Technology: Wood Ash Cement
Adults TechnologyPrimitive Technology: Wood Ash Cement - Creating wood ash cement from scratch
How exactly does binary code work?
Adults TechnologyImagine trying to use words to describe every scene in a film, every note in a song, or every street in your town.
Spinning Sphere of Molten Sodium
Adults TechnologyThat the Earth's magnetic field was a passive thing - it shouldn't need a continuous input of energy to maintain itself (that seemed reasonable to me because the magnetic field has been around for a long time and it seems mostly stable).