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Quantum Physics: Three Mind-Boggling Discoveries

Join Sideprojects on a mind-bending journey through the world of quantum physics, as he explores the true nature of particles, the observer effect, entanglement, and the practical applications of quantum computing.

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Why this brick robot could be BETTER than 3D printed concrete

3D Printing has often been highlighted as the future of everything from manufacturing to organ replacement. Belinda Carr explains why 3D printed concrete homes have just been bested.

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New York’s Most Hated Highway is Falling Apart

The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway is crumbling and has been for a while. As a kid, whenever I would jump around in my chair or bounce around in the car, my dad would say it looked like I was driving down the BQE. So, the BQE has never been great in my lifetime and always made me […]

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Interesting Mathematics

Millennium Problems: Math’s Million Dollar Bounties

For those not willing to roll the dice that their mathematical discoveries will be important enough to earn one of these large cash rewards, there is good news. There are a number of specific math problems for which there is a cash bounty given to the first person to solve them. The most famous of […]

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The Town That Facebook Built

How Facebook’s headquarters went from a Harvard dorm room to a vast campus and what does that mean for the future of community development?

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How 9/11 Changed Skyscraper Design

As we approach the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, I thank God every single day that I survived. Sometimes, being late for work can save your life. To say that the attacks changed our lives would be an epic understatement. But I do often wonder how the attacks changed the design of skyscrapers. Apparently, […]

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Future Science

Did Finland Solve Nuclear Power’s Biggest Problem?

Finland is building the largest and most powerful nuclear reactor in Europe  and may have worked out what to do with spent nuclear fuel once and for all. The B1M reports.

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