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A Shear Mystery
Everyone has had problems with a ketchup bottle at one time or another. After struggling and only getting a few drops, a…
Red Dot Replacing Cross Hairs
A bullet fired from a gun becomes subject to the pull of gravity and begins to fall the instant it leaves the gun…
Bicycle Chain for Fleas
Sandia National Laboratories has engineered the world’s smallest chain. The distance between chain link centers is only…
Hollywood To The Rescue
Sixty years ago, World War II was driving many advances in the sciences; a surprising number of these developments have…
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- X-Ray Astronomy vs. Medical X-Rays
- A New Twist on Fiber Optics
- Bicycle Chain for Fleas
- Cool Fuel Cells
- Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
- Drip, Drip Water Clocks
- Fiber Optics
- GPS (Global Positioning System)
- Hollywood To The Rescue
- How Can A Bullet-proof Vest Stop A Bullet?
- How We Use Crystals To Tell Time
- Hybrid Cars: The Magic Braking
- Infrared Headphones
- Liquid Crystal Communication
- NASA Hits a Hole-In-One
- New York to London in Less Than Two Hours
- Non-Flammable Fuel?
- Pass the Basalt
- Red Dot Replacing Cross Hairs
- Searing Heat, Little Package
- Seeing In The Dark
- Smoke Detectors
- Space Lasers Keep Earth's Air Clean