These Trains Take Over for Their Drivers to Cut Travel Time
To keep trains running on schedule, a new feature allows them to reverse direction and change tracks while the driver walks to the other end.
How Engineers Soundproof a New Underground Train Track
Construction teams use springs to quiet the Elizabeth Line trains as they pass under a concert hall.
London Super Tunnel Preview
Thousands of engineers, technicians and workers race to build Europe’s biggest construction project–London’s new railroad, the Elizabeth Line.
Astronaut Walter Cunningham on the Historic Apollo 7 Mission
Walter Cunningham was the last surviving member of the Apollo 7 mission. He died at the age of 90, in January of 2023.
3 Major Space Stories of 2022
From rocket launches, to dazzling new images, and even planetary defense, 2022 was a big year for space discovery.
This Teen Calculates Mind-Boggling Math in Her Head
Panidapu executes complex problems with mental math using the abacus method of calculation, a technique that relies on an ancient tool.
Scientists Make Breakthrough in Nuclear Fusion
For the first time, lab-made fusion released more energy than it used to start the reaction, a feat that has eluded researchers for decades.
Oldest DNA Ever Found Reveals Secrets of the Ancient Arctic
Scientists have retrieved the oldest DNA ever, which points to an ecosystem unlike anything on Earth today.
Thought Experiment: The Infinite Hilbert's Hotel
In a thought experiment first proposed in the 1920s, the Hilbert’s Hotel has an infinite number of rooms and helps demonstrate some of the strange properties of infinity.
The Area of a Circle, Explained with Pizza
One of the oldest calculus problems, finding the area of a circle, can be visualized using a pizza. By dividing it up into ever smaller slices and laying them out next to one another, eventually you get something close a rectangle.
Zero to Infinity Preview
Zero and infinity. These seemingly opposite, obvious, and indispensable concepts are relatively recent human inventions. Discover the surprising story of how these key concepts that revolutionized mathematics came to be – not just once, but over and over again as different cultures invented and re-invented them across thousands of years.
How the NFT Was Invented
Tech Entrepreneur Anil Dash and Artist Kevin McCoy created the first example of a non-fungible token, or NFT, expanding the possibility of owning digital items.
The History of Crypto Goes Further Back Than You Think
The invention of cryptocurrency revolutionized much of tech, from surveillance to e-commerce.
Crypto Decoded Preview
From Bitcoin to NFTs, crypto is making headlines. But what exactly is it, and how does it work? Experts go beyond the hype and skepticism to unravel the social and technological underpinnings of crypto – exploring how it came to be and why this new technology may change more than just money.
Why Experts Say Permanent Daylight Saving Time is Unhealthy
The misalignment of our internal clocks and the sun could result in a handful of heath concerns, experts say.
Artificial Intelligence Reveals Ancient Desert Drawings
Archaeologists are working to unveil Nazca geoglyphs stone by stone, but can AI help scientists identify and recover even more of these hillside geoglyphs?
Who Carved These Mysterious Lines in the Desert?
The Nazca were an ancient group of farmers and fishermen that used desert plateaus as a canvas for giant geoglyphs. But some of these drawings pre-date the Nazca. Who created them and why?
Nazca Desert Mystery Preview
One of the world’s greatest ancient enigmas, the Nazca lines are a dense network of criss-crossing lines, geometric shapes, and animal figures etched across 200 square miles of Peruvian desert. Who created them and why? Ever since they were rediscovered in the 1920s, scholars and enthusiasts have raised countless theories about their purpose.
Cats Might Be One of the Most Invasive Species
Non-native species, like cats and honeybees, can either become naturalized, as a part of the ecosystem, or invasive and disrupt the ecosystem.
Divers Hunt Venomous Fish Invading Our Oceans
Without any natural predators, invasive lionfish populations grow unchecked and wreak havoc on marine ecosystems. Watch free divers hunt these poisonous fish.
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