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PopSci’s High Issue is for all the big dreamers out there
Courtesy of Urban Sky / Mallory Heyer / Meiko Takechi Arquillos / Justin Fantl THERE’S AN EXPERIENCE only a few more than 600 human beings have ever felt. From space—soaring above the stratosphere,...
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Alien-looking balloons might be the next weapon in the fight against wildfires
One of Urban Sky’s microballoons floats over the Colorado landscape, capturing detailed images of the surface below. Courtesy of Urban Sky ONE MORNING IN JUNE, Daniel Roa and Max McLaughlin pull over...
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Do high-tops elevate athletic performance?
Josie Norton TEAM USA basketball players had at least one thing in common between 1936 and 1976: They all wore high-top Chuck Taylor All-Stars. A blend of flat rubber soles and canvas that rises above...
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NASA astronaut Victor J. Glover on the cosmic ‘relay race’ of the new lunar...
Josie Norton ONLY A SELECT FEW get the chance to escape Earth’s bubble, fewer will set foot on another orb, and fewer still will sit at the helm of a spacecraft. Of the 18 travelers NASA has tapped...
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Cloudy with a chance of cooling the planet
Meiko Takechi Arquillos / Prop styling by Todd Davis IN THE BEGINNING, the story goes, the Earth was formless and empty, and darkness shrouded the surface of the deep. Several millennia later, an...
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6 architectural facts about history’s tallest buildings
Josie Norton TO BUILD some of humanity’s most awe-inspiring architecture, workers had to deal with the technological and environmental challenges that came with their times. Whether from 2600 B.C.E....
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4 visionaries on the history and future of psychedelic medicine
Mallory Heyer PSYCHEDELICS are having a moment. This past spring, Netflix’s How to Change Your Mind documentary series introduced the binge-watching masses to the concept of using trippy substances to...
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5 sounds not meant for the human ear
Josie Norton HUMAN HEARING has its limits. Frequencies as high as 20,000 hertz (think of an anti-loitering alarm) can cause a pair of young ears to perk up. Any vibes above that fall into the range of...
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See how the US’s busiest commercial seaport tackles supply chain bottlenecks
Essentials such as jet fuel, recycled steel, and avocados are funneled through the Port of LA, only 28 miles south of the Hollywood sign. Justin Fantl EACH DAY, some 59 million parcels land on...
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Humans and nature will handle rising tides, together
We need an answer, or answers, to rising tides. Josie Norton/Popular Science OVER THE LAST CENTURY, seas have risen by roughly a foot, making sunny-day floods a regular occurrence, particularly on the...
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Rocket fuel might be polluting the Earth’s upper atmosphere
Many rockets are still using the same sooty fuels early space programs were using. Copyrighted images, see below ON A FOGGY midsummer morning 54 miles northwest of Santa Barbara, California, SpaceX...
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Will ‘flying cars’ cause traffic jams in the sky?
Josie Norton ON A GOOD DAY, assuming decent weather, little traffic, and skills behind the wheel, a cab ride from John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens to downtown Manhattan should take...
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How to learn to not fear heights
Josie Norton WHEN FORMER Google executive Alan Eustace dove more than 135,000 feet through the air, it was the culmination of three years of work: parachute and balloon design, test falls from 57,000...
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How to trap cosmic rays in a jar like it’s 1951
Popular Science ENERGY NEVER STOPS radiating through space, or on Earth. For more than a decade, hundreds of millions of samples from the never-ending deluge of protons, nuclei, and other atomic...
View ArticleU.S. DOE Expands Support for Community-Led Clean Energy Transitions
DOE’s Clean Energy to Communities (C2C) program helps local governments, electric utilities, community-based groups, and other decisionmakers realize their clean energy goals with innovative modeling...
View ArticleU.S. Department of Energy Releases First Ever Federal Blueprint to...
First Comprehensive Federal Strategy Outlines Pathways to Reduce Emissions 90% in Buildings Sector by 2050, Reinforcing President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda to Lower Energy Costs, Improve...
View ArticleA Clean Start: Argonne Spotlights Projects That Give Underserved Communities...
Argonne develops case studies on community-based electric mobility projects that integrate equity. The post A Clean Start: Argonne Spotlights Projects That Give Underserved Communities Equitable Access...
View ArticleThe Largest Digital Camera Ever Built for Astronomy Makes Its Debut
On screensaver mode, smart TVs often rotate through photos of natural wonders, from waterfalls to canyons. Now imagine hundreds of those televisions, with one single image spread out among them. The...
View ArticleU.S. DOE Launches Final Phase Of Its L-Prize Lighting Competition On...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today launched the third and final phase of its Lighting Prize (L-Prize®) competition, a DOE American-Made Challenge designed to spur groundbreaking innovation,...
View ArticleHow Mountains Could Store Mountains of Clean Energy
New Tool Estimates Cost To Build New Pumped Storage Hydropower Facilities To Support a Clean Energy Grid Mountains—could soon store a whole lot of clean energy. These vertically blessed places are...
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