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How The Hell Does A Quantum Computer Work?
You’ve probably heard people — including us — banging on about quantum computers for a long ol’ time. But that doesn’t necessarily mean you know exactly how they work. Fortunately, this video is here to help.
15 Photographs Of The Superstructures That Put Us In Space
“It is easy to invent a flying machine,” said the 19th-century aviation engineer Otto Lilienthalmore, “[and] difficult to build one; to make it fly is everything.” The challenge of air (and later, space) travel began not with building aircraft, but with building a realistic simulation machine in which to test those aircraft.
Watch The World’s Smallest Flying Robot Insect Take To The Sky
This little guy might not look much, but he’s the world’s smallest flying robotic insect — and he’s taken 12 years to get into the air. While engineers from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard have been able to get him to flap his wings for some time, they’d never managed controlled flight.
What Happens When You Push Concrete Beyond Its Limits?
Common sense dictates that you don’t want to be anywhere near a concrete pylon when the load it’s bearing is too much: when all that weight comes crashing down, you’ll find out quickly how much weight your body can shoulder as well.
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