Cargo Ships Are Creating Sea Lightning
(via Atlas Obscura) A massive ship that cruises the vast oceans creating intense lightning storms might sound like something out
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Science
How to steer a spacecraft into Saturn
(via Washington Post) A billion-dollar spacecraft named Cassini is about to burn up as it plunges into the atmosphere of
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Signal Hill: The Birthplace of Modern Communications
(via Amusing Planet) Overlooking the harbor of St John’s, in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, is a massive piece of rock
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10 Technological Innovations That Changed the NFL
(via Popular Mechanics) Are you ready for some football? As NFL 2017 kicks off, let’s look back at the technologies
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Theme park rides you won’t believe are real
(via Grunge) Since the days of tame wooden roller coasters, relaxing log rides and gently spinning teacups, theme park rides
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Why There’s No Such Thing As a Category 6 Hurricane
(via Popular Mechanics) As Hurricane Irma barrels towards the United States mainland with 185 mph winds that put it squarely
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The Biggest Things Ever to be Transported by Sea
(via 1st Move) Shipping makes the world go round. Literally. Every day, thousands of containers are loaded on to enormous
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How the Wright Brothers’ Plane Compares to the World’s Largest Aircraft
(via mental_floss) The Wright brothers famously built the world’s first powered, heavier-than-air, controllable aircraft. But while the siblings revolutionized the
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Orange is the new green: How orange peels revived a Costa Rican forest
(via Princeton) In the mid-1990s, 1,000 truckloads of orange peels and orange pulp were purposefully unloaded onto a barren pasture
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‘Smart’ Rubber Bands Are on Their Way
(via Atlas Obscura) Since they were patented in 1845, rubber bands have been put to a staggering variety of uses.
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What Are Seasons Like on Other Planets?
(via Popular Mechanics) Do other planets in our solar system have seasons like we do on Earth? The answer: not
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A Brief History of DayGlo
(via mental_floss) In 1933, a student at the University of California named Bob Switzer fell and hit his head. He
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