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1655: "Particles Live Longer in Accelerators"
Episode 1655
Interesting Things with JC #1655: "Particles Live Longer in Accelerators" – A muon forms high above Earth and should decay before reaching the ground…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
1654: "Fusion Propulsion"
Episode 1654
Interesting Things with JC #1654: "Fusion Propulsion" – A spacecraft engine tries to push plasma at hundreds of kilometers per second while no normal…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
1653: "The Sugar Industry and the Scientists"
Episode 1653
Interesting Things with JC #1653: "The Sugar Industry and the Scientists" – Harvard researchers published papers that downplayed sugar’s possible lin…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
1652: "Facebook’s Emotional Contagion Experiment"
Episode 1652
Interesting Things with JC #1652: "Facebook’s Emotional Contagion Experiment" – Facebook changed the News Feeds of nearly 690,000 users to test wheth…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
1651: "The NERVA Program"
Episode 1651
Interesting Things with JC #1651: "The NERVA Program" – A rocket engine fires in the Nevada desert without burning fuel the normal way, and a uranium…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
1650: "Ion Drives"
Episode 1650
Interesting Things with JC #1650: "Ion Drives" – An engine produces less force than a postcard weighs, yet it keeps pushing a spacecraft across billi…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
1649: "Ernst Stuhlinger"
Episode 1649
Interesting Things with JC #1649: "Ernst Stuhlinger" – A NASA engineer answers a nun asking why Mars missions matter while people are starving on Ear…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
1648: "Why Are Manhole Covers Round?"
Episode 1648
Interesting Things with JC #1648: "Why Are Manhole Covers Round?" – A heavy cover sits over a city access hole, but its shape keeps it from dropping …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
1647: "Fermilab"
Episode 1647
Interesting Things with JC #1647: "Fermilab" – Scientists send neutrinos through solid rock from Illinois to distant detectors without a tunnel, whil…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
1646: "Electrostatic Propulsion"
Episode 1646
Interesting Things with JC #1646: "Electrostatic Propulsion" – A fixed-wing aircraft flies with no propeller, no combustion, and no exhaust while ele…
3 months, 3 weeks ago