The U.S. & Russia Are Building a Deep Space Gateway, Here's What You Need to Know
AdultsScienceSpaceTechnologyThe U.S. and Russia have announced plans to put a new structure in the orbit of the moon. What will it look like?
This Engineer's Crazy Plan to Clean Air with Smog-Sucking Bikes
AdultsGlobal WarmingScienceTechnologyThese bicycles are designed to filter smog out of the air as you ride. This could be a game changer for smoggy cities like Beijing.
GoPro HERO6: This Is the Moment in 4K
AdultsFilmSportsTechnology...Live the moment. Capture the moment. Share the moment. HERO6 is here, and the moment is now.
How Do Helicopters Fly Without Wings?
AdultsScienceTechnologyTransportation...Engineering tons of metal to fly straight up is no easy feat. Here's how helicopter blades make vertical flight a reality.
Is DNA the future of data storage? - Leo Bear-McGuinness
AdultsGeneticsScienceBiology...In the event of a nuclear fallout, every piece of digital and written information could all be lost. Luckily, there is a way that all of human history could be recorded and safely stored beyond the civilization's end. And the key ingredient is inside all of us: our DNA. Leo Bear-McGuinness explains.
Engineers Love to Break Airplanes Before You Fly in Them, Here's Why
AdultsTechnologyTransportationTravel...Airplane technology has come a long way, but it has limits. Lucky for us, there are teams of people whose job it is to find those limits.
Why China is putting robots in nursing homes
AdultsTechnologyWorldHealthChina has more than 230 million senior citizens. To keep them company, it's encouraging nursing homes to buy companionship robots.
The story of Replika, the AI app that becomes you
AdultsArtificial IntelligenceCreativitySoftware Engineering...Replika is a chatbot that creates a digital representation of you. It's strange and fascinating -- but the story behind it is even better.
Myths and Facts About Superintelligent AI
AdultsArtificial IntelligenceScienceTechnologyWe live in an era of self driving cars, autonomous drones, deep learning algorithms, computers that beat humans at chess and go, and so on. So it's natural to ask, will artificial superintelligence replace humans, take our jobs, and destroy human civilization? Or will AI just become tools like regular computers. AI researcher Max Tegmark helps explain the myths and facts about superintelligence, the impending machine takeover, etc.
Is it possible to create a perfect vacuum? - Rolf Landua and Anais Rassat
AdultsScienceTechnologyPhysicsThe universe is bustling with matter and energy. Even in the vast, apparent emptiness of intergalactic space, there's one hydrogen atom per cubic meter. But is there such thing as a total absence of everything? Is it possible to make a completely empty space? Rolf Landua and Anais Rassat explain the science behind vacuums.
The Problem With Our Phones
AdultsAddictionTechnologyMental Health...They are hugely useful of course but in many ways, we buy the advantages our phones give us at a subtly high price we don't entirely recognise. Some reflections on how to live well around phones.
The Plane of the Future
AdultsFutureTechnologyTransportationWhat's Actually the Plane of the Future looks like?
How a Haitian village cooks with sunlight
AdultsCreativityFoodTechnology...This sustainable initiative is helping to save Haiti's forests.
These College Students Built a Hyperloop Pod... Here's What Happened
AdultsEducationTechnologyWork...College can be stressful with all the classes, exams and social events to balance. Now, imagine doing all that while building a Hyperloop pod that will be judged by Elon Musk... no pressure. A scrappy group of students from Wisconsin boldly took on that challenge, and they learned that no matter how many all-nighters you pull, there's always more work to be done.
Why Trains are so Expensive
AdultsEconomyTechnologyTransportationTrains require a lot of people to operate.
Will we ever be able to teleport? - Sajan Saini
AdultsScienceTechnologyFuture...Is teleportation possible? Could a baseball transform into something like a radio wave, travel through buildings, bounce around corners, and change back into a baseball? Oddly enough, thanks to quantum mechanics, the answer might actually be yes... sort of! Sajan Saini explains.
Lasers Are Great, But Diamond Superlasers Are Better, Here's Why
AdultsNatureScienceTechnologyScientists have discovered how to create a real life 'superlaser' using an ultra-pure diamond. How exactly does it work?2
The World's Largest Airport | China's Future MEGAPROJECTS: Part 3
AdultsTechnologyTransportationWorld...China is building the world's largest airport, the Beijing Daxing International Aiport, to serve the Jing-Jin-Ji megalopolis.
MIT's self-folding origami technology
AdultsCreativityTechnologyEngineering...MIT's self-folding origami technology that could change how we design everything from airbags to wearables.
China's Amazing Water Canal | China's Future MEGAPROJECTS: Part 2
AdultsConstructionFutureTechnology...South-to-North Water Transfer Project: The huge populations filling China's northern megacities have a shortage of the single most necessary resource for life: water. To solve that problem, the Chinese will soon be moving 44.8 billion cubic meters of fresh water each year from the wetter South to the dryer North.
Jing-Jin-Ji, A MEGALOPOLIS | China's Future MEGAPROJECTS: Part 1
AdultsConstructionFutureTechnology...Jing-Jin-Ji: China is in the midst of a construction spree unparalleled in human history. These are the Megaprojects that will lift China into the future. China wants to make its capital, Beijing, the center of the world's largest supercity, by merging three provinces into one continuous megalopolis of 130 million people.