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Saturday 28 November 2020
Friday 27 November 2020
Versatile Building Blocks Make Structures With Surprising Mechanical Properties
The subunits could be robotically assembled to produce large, complex objects, including cars, robots, or wind turbine blades.
The Heavy Toll of the Black Belt’s Wastewater Crisis
Many rural households in America don’t have access to safe sewage systems. In Alabama, entrenched poverty and unusual geology have created a public-health disaster.
Thursday 26 November 2020
We Need to Protect the Free Speech of Dissident Doctors
The Covid Physician on how we can protect our civil liberties in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
Monday 23 November 2020
Was 2008 the Year China Triumphed Over the West?
Historians are likely to look back at the financial crash as the turning point in the balance of power.
When Pirates Studied Euclid
How did the sailors of early modern Europe learn to traverse the world’s seas? By going to school and doing maths problems.
Sunday 22 November 2020
Half-Life 2’s Garden Gnome Reaches Space Aboard Rocket Lab’s Electron
Valve’s Gabe Newell, with an assist from Weta Workshop, sent the garden gnome to space aboard an Electron booster on Thursday. Go Kiwis.