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Storm Kings
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Storm Kings

Creating fearsome weather, indoors.

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July - August 2017
Born [Not] To Run
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Born [Not] To Run

Police Cruisers And Getaway Cars Are Racing Toward An Unknown Future.

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Winter 2018
How To Get Ready For Hurricanes, Tsunamis, Floods, and Earthquakes
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How To Get Ready For Hurricanes, Tsunamis, Floods, and Earthquakes

Seismologist Lucy Jones is on a crusade to prepare us—and our infrastructure—for the next Big One.

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Winter 2018
The Winding, Heated, And Absurdly Technical Oral History Of The Ginger Emoji
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The Winding, Heated, And Absurdly Technical Oral History Of The Ginger Emoji

In November 2014, a tech-industry consortium announced a new set of emoji that would diversify the physical appearance of the pictograms.EMMA KELLY, editor and founder of the site Ginger Parrot: I checked and saw that redheads were just not on there. I wondered, has no one brought this up? Is there no one at Apple with red hair? Has everyone forgotten about Ed Sheeran?

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Fall 2018
Save Your Soles
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Save Your Soles

YOU PROBABLY DON’T WANT TO WEAR THAT PAIR OF BLOWN out Converse All-Stars to amble anywhere farther than the corner store. For long treks, the proper footwear will support your dogs and grip the ground to prevent sore soles, painful blisters, and mangled ankles. These four choices will carry you for many miles over different types of terra firma.

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Spring 2019
Getting There
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Getting There

Public transportation is great—if you have access to it. Now cities are starting to think about how to help people with the first and last miles of their travels.

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Spring 2019
How To Create A Robot Icon
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How To Create A Robot Icon

Engineers built seven versions of BB- 8 for filming, plus one for red carpet events.

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December 2015
Bitcoin: The Future Of Money
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Bitcoin: The Future Of Money

Currency has gone from cows to coins to paper to plastic. The next big disruption? We could all be spending digital dough. 

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January - February 2016
Designing The Robot Next Door
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Designing The Robot Next Door

When you spend time, money and emotional capital providing care, you don’t have to go it alone.

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January - February 2016
Everyone Will Be A Gamer in the Future
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Everyone Will Be A Gamer in the Future

Keep struggling with the same issues? Charlotte Haigh MacNeil explains how to break free.

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March - April 2016
Are We Ready for Designer Babies?
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Are We Ready for Designer Babies?

Did you get enough shut-eye last night? With insomnia on the rise, the answer is probably ‘no’. But what exactly is keeping you awake? Anna Pointer finds out.

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March - April 2016
Want To Live Forever? Science Takes On Aging
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Want To Live Forever? Science Takes On Aging

Want more birthdays? Science can help.  

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March - April 2016
How ISIS Is Taking War to Social Media
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How ISIS Is Taking War to Social Media

ISIS goes viral - and the world fights back.

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March - April 2016
Edward Snowden: The Internet Is Broken
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Edward Snowden: The Internet Is Broken

Edward Snowden on our digital naiveté.

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May - June 2016
How to Re-Create the First Intercontinental Weapon
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How to Re-Create the First Intercontinental Weapon

DIY-history columnist William Gurstelle gives bygone weapons a modern spin.

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May - June 2016
Welcome To Drone-kota
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Welcome To Drone-kota

A cottage industry wants to put North Dakota on the map.

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May - June 2016
Your Next Vacation Could Be To 100,000 Feet
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Your Next Vacation Could Be To 100,000 Feet

Your next vacation could be to 100,000 feet - Balloons like this one will tow a capsule that has seating for six passengers and...a bar.

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August 2015
The Race To Build The Hyperloop
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The Race To Build The Hyperloop

Elon Musk proposed a ridiculously audacious form of transportation. Now, startups are racing to bring the hyperloop to life.

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July 2015
Mission Europa - Jupiter Or Bust
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Mission Europa - Jupiter Or Bust

Jupiter's ocean-filled moon might hold the life we've long searched for in space. And scientists have one shot to reach it.

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September 2015
Let's Talk About Martians
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Let's Talk About Martians

We found the perfect excuse to geek out on exploring Mars - in science fiction and real life. And we invited the director of The Martian to join us.

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October 2015
Where The Buffalo No Longer
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Where The Buffalo No Longer

DESPITE WHAT SEEMS LIKE A CONSERVATION SUCCESS STORY, OUR NATIONAL MAMMAL MIGHT STILL BE AT RISK.

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Summer 2019
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Rise Of The Plastic Eaters

Scientists have new hope that nature might hold a solution for our most problematic polymers

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Summer 2019
The Incredible! Shrinking! Airplane!
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The Incredible! Shrinking! Airplane!

Jets are getting bigger, yet, inch by inch, our personal space dwindles. How the %*#+ does that work?

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Fall 2018
Shamu Dreams Of Europa
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Shamu Dreams Of Europa

The microscope that could look for life on Jupiter’s moon.

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Fall 2018
​​​​​​​Dirty Little Secret
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​​​​​​​Dirty Little Secret

Meet the wee, multilegged chefs behind the world’s most sought-after loaves.

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Fall 2018
Looking Sharp
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Looking Sharp

WHEN SETI RESEARCHER FRANCK MARCHIS WAS A KID IN France, he looked at Saturn for the first time through a telescope and saw the planet magnified from a speck in the night sky to a beautifully ringed orb.

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Fall 2018
The Incredible! Shrinking! Airplane!
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The Incredible! Shrinking! Airplane!

Jets are getting bigger, yet, inch by inch, our personal space dwindles. How the %*#+ does that work?

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Fall 2018
How A Sand Scientist Helped Win World War II
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How A Sand Scientist Helped Win World War II

A tale of innovation, war, and glory.

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Fall 2018
Temple Of Boom
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Temple Of Boom

An aggressively powerful car stereo can literally blow your hair back if you feed it a tune with enough thumping bass. But cranking the volume on a cheap set of Craigslist subwoofers risks eardrum- assaulting distortion. A custom setup based on these components will shake the ground under your tires while preserving the essence of the new Post Malone (or the old Public Enemy).

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Spring 2019
Snaking Transit Through Ancient History
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Snaking Transit Through Ancient History

In Profile / Rossella Rea.

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Spring 2019

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