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ift.tt/2ZMveQ3 Most materials derive their macroscopic properties from their microscopic structure. A steel rod is hard, for instance, because its atoms form a repeating crystalline pattern that remains static over time. Water parts around your foot when you dip it…

ift.tt/2CbX5Bi I thank Ketaki for suggesting this problem which is adapted from a Math Kangaroo paper. The diagram illustrates a net of an unfolded rectangular box. What is the volume of the box? As usual, watch the video for a…

ift.tt/2ZGbain Using images collected by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), NASA has created a stunning time lapse of the sun’s solar cycle. via ift.tt/38t444E ift.tt/3cIvqUZ

ift.tt/2VDtdEE This illustration does not depict the actual ride. The real thing was way more dangerous. Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by kaisorn/iStock/Getty Images Plus, RossHelen/iStock/Getty Images Plus, Photo by eberhard grossgasteiger on Unsplash and Lucian3D/iStock/Getty Images Plus. This excerpt…

ift.tt/2Bsrs6c Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts departs the Senate chamber along after the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump concluded on February 5, 2020 in Washington, D.C. Mario Tama/Getty Images In 1786, when Virginia proposed to assess a…

ift.tt/2ZuCDmR The world is aging, and with age comes vision decline. New research may have found how to improve eyesight in an accessible way. via ift.tt/2ZuwmYA ift.tt/3cIvqUZ

ift.tt/38mboPn Sarah Tew/CNET Live TV streaming services promise a cord-cutter’s delight. They’re typically cheaper than a cable TV subscription with similar channel lineups and no need to sign a contract, so you can cancel anytime. Unfortunately they also suffer one…

ift.tt/3ik5kvv When a laser beam shines through a membrane made of simple household soap, it branches in a strange and unexpected way that could help us understand the cosmos via ift.tt/3dP3O13 ift.tt/2JJBK25

ift.tt/2VAzpgG St. Louis has had a long history of economic and racial tension in relation to housing. Housing in St. Louis has often been segregated by skin color and economic status, long before rich white people started pulling guns on…

ift.tt/31wqIHZ NEWS – There are a lot of satellites circling this blue marble we call home. YOu may not realize that many of these tin cans floating over our heads are actually visible to the naked eye if you know…

ift.tt/3dIoVBX The Collaert series depicts personifications of the four classical elements — Earth, Water, Air, and Fire — which since Empeclodes and Aristotle had been key to how Western traditions, prior to modern atomic theory, conceptualised the material make up…

ift.tt/3dLpnQ5 Zombies are taking over the world, yet there are bright spots in video game The Last of Us Part II, finds Jacob Aron via ift.tt/2YM9rsD ift.tt/2JJBK25

ift.tt/2YN7fkx Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Donaldson Collection/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images and Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images. Black Lives Matter is reverberating around the world, triggering a fresh reckoning with the racist global history of colonialism and slavery. While Confederate statues…

ift.tt/3dJPJSx As promised last week, Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu reopened on Monday with a string quartet performance of Puccini’s Crisantemi played before a packed house of 2,292 plants. You can watch the performance here: A strange & beautiful performance.…

ift.tt/3gbIx3b In the amusing animated short “B is For Ben” by Rok Andic, an astronaut named Ben finds himself stranded on an unknown planet far from home. He desperately tries to board his lofty ship and leave by using any…

ift.tt/2NIy1nY No one wants to use a public restroom during a pandemic, so it’s BYOB: Bring your own (pee) bag. Ask someone in January 2020 where we’d be by summer, and I don’t think anyone could have predicted that masks…

ift.tt/3ihxpn0 A regular desk with a drawer seems just plain drab compared to the uber-cool OLLLY desk! Not only handsome, but it’s also designed to accommodate all your modern devices and not-so-modern apparatuses. Olly Desk by Pavel Vetrov features multiple…

ift.tt/2NLYgcR HiPOD 29 June 2020: Gullies, Dunes and More   In addition to the numerous whirlwind tracks across layered deposits, there are a large number of gullies. Sediments also appear to form small barchans that are then pushed up on top…

ift.tt/2BlQrrX If you could shrink small enough to descend the genetic helix of any animal, plant, fungus, bacterium or virus on Earth as though it were a spiral staircase, you would always find yourself turning right — never left. It’s…

ift.tt/31pNX6C Maangchi constantly inspires me to new heights, and my family loves it!!! The tofu in the dish is marinated in more… via ift.tt/386N1Fr ift.tt/2o06R08

ift.tt/2BJuEuc Just before the pandemic started, a Japanese startup called Donut Robotics had won a contract to provide their robot guides/translators to Tokyo’s Haneda airport. With the subsequent collapse in air travel, the company worried they’d go bust. In survival…

ift.tt/31hlfEM Coral Bells are low, mounding perennials grown for their attractive and colorful foliage. They come in a huge array of leaf colors, including purple, bronze, orange, chartreuse, and lots of different combinations. Avoid the temptation to buy the gorgeous…