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Nature makes the absolute best annoyances. This famous fastener relies on microscopic hooks catching onto loops, mimicking those irritating weeds that stick…
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Modern smart phone battery chargers frequently contain built-in microprocessors that possess significantly more raw computing power than the Apollo Guidance…
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Flatter than a pancake and infinitely more expensive. To print microscopic circuitry, raw silicon is polished to an atomic level of absolute flatness. If a…
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John Glenn heavily popularized the technological term glitch during the legendary American space program in the early sixties, using it to describe sudden and…
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The fiery exhaust of a rocket launch is so aggressively hot it should instantly melt the metal nozzle holding it. To stop this catastrophic failure, the…
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