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SCIFs Are Spy-proof Places for America's Top Secrets
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SCIFs are spy-proof, highly secure facilities designed for viewing and working with sensitive national security secrets. We talk to a former general counsel for the NSA to find out how they work.
How Offshore Drilling Works
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Offshore drilling means combing Earth for new underwater oil reserves. Learn more about offshore drilling and finding oil in the midst of rough seas.
What If Humans Could Breathe Underwater?
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Remove that pesky drowning risk, and the world formerly under the sea opens with possibility - despite our inefficient limbs and tendency toward hypothermia.
Top 5 Innovations in Oil Drilling
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Oil drilling has been around for more than a century. But because of the numerous developments in the technology, it has grown leaps and bounds in that time.
Muons: The Subatomic Particles Shaking Up the World of Physics
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First discovered in the late 1930s, muons are passing through you and everything around you at a speed close to light, as cosmic rays strike particles in our planet's atmosphere. So what are muons and how are they informing the new physics?
How a Weather Balloon Works?
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Have you ever wondered how weather stations gather all of their data? Even though technology for predicting the weather has improved, simple weather balloons do a lot of the hard work every day.
How Black Boxes Work
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Black boxes help investigators determine what happened in an airplane accident. What's inside a black box and how does it record flight data?
How the Hyperloop Works
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Ready for a fifth mode of transportation? Elon Musk is. He's sketched out a proposal for a nearly supersonic transportation system that could shoot you from San Francisco to Los Angeles faster than you can watch an episode of "Game of Thrones."
Venus: Earth's Blazing-hot and Bizarre Twin
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The atmosphere is crushing on Venus, and it's so hot lead would melt. But the planet still has a lot in common with Earth. We'll explain.
How Pyramids Work
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Pyramids are some of the most amazing structures ever created by man. Learn about pyramids and the technology used to construct the ancient pyramids.