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Could laser blasters ever become feasible? - Christopher Baird
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A fleet of rebel spaceships is greeted by a frenzy of laser blasts – illuminating the sector with brillian…
12 hours ago
Tycho Brahe, the scandalous astronomer - Dan Wenkel
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If you think scientists lead boring, monotonous lives, yo…
13 hours ago
The tale of the boy who tricked the Devil - Iseult Gillespie
Discover the tale of the lovestruck boy sent into Hell to steal 3 hairs from the Devil to appease his true love's father, the king.
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In a small town,…
13 hours ago
The pioneering work of female explorers - Courtney Stephens
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During the Victorian Age, women were unlikely to b…
13 hours ago
The chemical reaction that feeds the world - Daniel D. Dulek
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How do we grow crops quickly enough to feed the …
14 hours ago
How the Suez Canal shaped global history - Lucia Carminati
Dig into the construction of the Suez Canal, and discover how it became one of the world’s busiest maritime passages.
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Today, nearly 30% of all globa…
14 hours ago
The Egyptian myth of the death of Osiris - Alex Gendler
Dig into the Egyptian myth of Osiris, trapped by his brother, the warrior god Set, in a coffin and tossed into the Nile to die.
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Long jealous of his…
15 hours ago
The race to decode a mysterious language - Susan Lupack
Dig into the mysterious Linear B symbols, found on ancient tablets on the island of Crete, which took scholars nearly 50 years to decode.
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In the ear…
16 hours ago
The lexicon of electricity - James Sheils
We all know the words around electricity, "charge," "positive," "battery", and more. But where do they come from and what do they really mean? Let th…
16 hours ago
Can you solve the unstoppable blob riddle? - Dan Finkel
A shooting star crashes onto Earth and unleashes a hideous, rampaging blob. Can you stop it from destroying the planet?
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A shooting star crashes onto…
17 hours ago