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1659: "Overmodulating the Carrier"
Episode 1659
Interesting Things with JC #1659: "Overmodulating the Carrier" – WMEX engineers pushed AM modulation to the edge so the station sounded louder and de…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
1658: "HAVOC: The Airship of Venus"
Episode 1658
Interesting Things with JC #1658: "HAVOC: The Airship of Venus" – NASA engineers studied a crewed airship that would float above Venus instead of lan…
3 weeks ago
1657: "The Stonefly of British Columbia"
Episode 1657
Interesting Things with JC #1657: "The Stonefly of British Columbia" – Stonefly nymphs cling to rocks in cold British Columbia rivers while scientist…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
1656: "Antimatter Propulsion"
Episode 1656
Interesting Things with JC #1656: "Antimatter Propulsion" – Antimatter destroys normal matter on contact and converts mass directly into energy, but …
3 weeks, 2 days ago
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 weeks, 3 days 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 weeks, 4 days 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 weeks, 5 days 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 weeks, 6 days 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…
4 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…
4 weeks, 1 day ago