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Interactive Panorama: The Large Hadron Collider

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The Large Hadron Collider is kind of a big deal. It’s buried underground and propels protons to 99.99% the speed of light in order to slam them together and study the impact of smaller particles which result from the collision. It cost like 300 billion dollars to build and several...
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Watch: Voyage to Pandora, First Interstellar Space Flight

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An amazing look at the technology it will take for interstellar space flight between earth and one of the nearest star systems, Proxima Centauri, 4.6 light years away where there may be planets.  It’s totally doable, but we’ll need to accelerate to around 67 million miles per hour (10% the speed of...
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Watch PBS America Revealed – Electric Nation

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Watch Electric Nation on PBS. See more from America Revealed. Hosted by Yul Kwon, a “Survivor” winner, this America Revealed episode goes into great detail to outline America’s Power Grid from perspectives you’ve never seen.  It’s amazing what goes into the infrastructure that supports our nation. Tweet...
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The iCub Robot

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The iCub is a project of a team of universities in Europe.  They’re all working on separate aspects of the iCub on an open source platform, then eventually combining their developments in the various functions of the iCub.       Tweet...
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