tom scott
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Wild Images Show Scientists Training Robots to Clean Up Chernobyl’s Waste
Robots could someday help dispose of nuclear waste. Scientists from the University of Bristol working on the problem recently paid a visit to some of the most contaminated places at the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear facility to further this goal. The researchers are helping develop new technologies, including using a Boston Dynamics robot dog to deal…
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A London Airport Is Getting An Upgraded Air Traffic Control Tower 130 Kilometres Away From All The Planes
London’s cramped City Airport, located in the heart of the city, is undergoing a massive upgrade, including the addition of a fancy new air traffic control tower. But to maximise the airport’s limited space, that tower is actually being built 129km away, and will rely on 14 high-def cameras to give remote ATC crews a…
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Watch These Drones Get Fried By Over A Million Volts
Video: Tom Scott took a pair of DJI Phantom 3 drones to the University of Manchester’s High Voltage Laboratory, where they can manufacture lightning strikes measuring over a million volts. The goal was to see what happens to a drone were it to get struck by lightning while flown in a storm, and the results…
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Why Nuclear Fusion Reactors Won’t Blow Up
Video: Nuclear fusion holds promise as a safe, clean source of energy to power our future. We’re probably decades away from using fusion as a viable source of energy, but some experimental reactors are already online.