Tens of thousands of large dams are reaching the end of their expected lifespans, leading to a dramatic rise in failures and posing a serious threat to hundreds of millions living downstream
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Why beaches disappear (and how we mitigate it)
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The Law of Leaky Abstractions (2002)
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The machine that erases what it creates
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NASA's weirdest experimental plane - The Ames-Dryden-1 oblique wing aircraft
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Glitter bomb 3.0 vs. porch pirates
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Faroe Islands are set to open an under-sea roundabout – the underwater tunnels connect the islands of Streymoy and Eysturoy in a network some 11km long
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Adam Savage and Vsauce's Michael Stevens build a kendama
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The new $45 billion metro system under construction beneath Paris
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The self-levitating Kingsbury aerodynamic bearing
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What is a tuned mass damper?
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British plugs are better than all other plugs, and here's why
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Environmentalists have held protests outside a court that is deciding on a tunnel link between Germany and Denmark – they say the project is flawed on many levels
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This electrical transmission tower has a little problem
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Supersonic baseball cannon (World's fastest baseball)
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Demo and teardown of an X-ray fluorescence gun (measures chemical composition)
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Porsche found a way to 3D-print lightweight pistons that add even more horsepower
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What is a Dyson sphere?
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ThorCon's thorium converter reactor
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How weed eaters work (at 62,000 frames per second)
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US Army awards pocket-sized drones $20.6 million contract
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Bill Gates-backed carbon capture plant does the work of forty million trees
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Why the Golden Gate Bridge sounds like a David Lynch movie now
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Revealing motion invisible to the naked eye using Motion Amplification and Video Magnification
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Regrinding coffee - A surprising result
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On the Moon, astronaut pee will be a hot commodity. Urine can be used for landing pads, gardens, and drinking water. But will there be enough to go around?
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The insane engineering of the A-10 Warthog
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Pulling seven G's in an F-16 and going supersonic with US Air Force Thunderbirds
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What is a culvert?
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Michael Reeves builds a surgery robot
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Construction of the world's longest immersed tunnel connecting Denmark and Germany will begin in January next year
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EU state aid regulators clear Danish financial support for a rail-road link between Denmark and Germany
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Inexpensive, reusable electrodes for EMG
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Tech in the time of COVID-19
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Scientists just used a supercomputer to make a living organism from scratch
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Software disenchantment
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What happened to giant Ekranoplans?
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US FAA engineers objected to Boeing’s removal of some 787 lightning protection measures
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The impact of direct air carbon capture on climate change
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Instant stone (just add water!)
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Diagnosing the steel failure in the SF Transit Center
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Can you turn a grape into a "meat berry"? - Tissue recellularization
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The material science of metal 3D printing
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Danish Rubjerg lighthouse moved inland on skates – coastal erosion from North Sea winds threatened to topple it into the sea
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Are aerospikes better than bell nozzles?
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Australian Water Rocketry group reaches world record 3155ft (961m) from 1150psi carbon-composite water rocket
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Crash course: How Boeing's managerial revolution created the 737 Max disaster
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The FGC9 is a 3D Printed firearm that is built from unregulated components and costs 100$ to make
@fuggguncontrol: The FGC9 is a (mostly) 3D Printed firearm that is built from unregulated components - using the EU definition of what a "regulated component" is. This makes it just short of an entirely scratch built firearm. It costs 100 dollars to build. #GunControlNow #3Dprinting #DIY https://t.co/gPxoFHzHvd
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How did NASA steer the Saturn V?
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Where Manhattan’s grid plan came from
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