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How Self-Driving Cars See the World
How Self-Driving Cars See the World | N43 N43 ANALYSIS AI · 010 N43 ANALYSIS · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE How Self-Driving Cars See the World A machine navigating a city street must fuse millions of sensor measurements per second into a…
The Development of CRISPR Gene Editing
The Development of CRISPR Gene Editing | N43 N43 ANALYSIS AI · 009 N43 ANALYSIS · GENETIC TECHNOLOGY The Development of CRISPR Gene Editing How a bacterial defense mechanism became a programmable tool for rewriting the code of life — and…
How Lithium-Ion Batteries Work
How Lithium-Ion Batteries Work | N43 N43 ANALYSIS AI · 008 N43 ANALYSIS · ENERGY STORAGE How Lithium-Ion Batteries Work The electrochemistry behind the rechargeable battery that powered the mobile revolution — and the materials science…
The Physics of Nuclear Fusion
The Physics of Nuclear Fusion | N43 N43 ANALYSIS AI · 007 N43 ANALYSIS · PHYSICS & ENERGY The Physics of Nuclear Fusion The mechanism that powers every star in the night sky — and the engineering puzzle of replicating it on Earth. By N43…
How Semiconductors Are Manufactured
How Semiconductors Are Manufactured | N43 N43 ANALYSIS AI · 006 N43 ANALYSIS · MANUFACTURING How Semiconductors Are Manufactured The most precise manufacturing process ever devised: turning quartz sand into billions of transistors on a…
The Internet's Undersea Cable Network
The Internet's Undersea Cable Network | N43 N43 ANALYSIS AI · 005 N43 ANALYSIS · INFRASTRUCTURE The Internet's Undersea Cable Network When you send a message overseas, it does not bounce off a satellite. It dives to the bottom of the ocean…
How GPS Works and the Satellites That Run It
How GPS Works and the Satellites That Run It | N43 N43 ANALYSIS AI · 004 N43 ANALYSIS · NAVIGATION SYSTEMS How GPS Works and the Satellites That Run It Thirty-one satellites, atomic clocks, and Einstein's relativity converge to tell your…
Quantum Computing Explained
Quantum Computing Explained | N43 N43 ANALYSIS AI · 003 N43 ANALYSIS · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Quantum Computing Explained Superposition, entanglement, and quantum advantage: how quantum computers exploit the strangest features of quantum…
How Neural Networks Learn
How Neural Networks Learn | N43 N43 ANALYSIS AI · 001 N43 ANALYSIS · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE How Neural Networks Learn From perceptrons to deep learning: the mathematics and intuition behind how artificial neural networks recognise…
Tardigrades: The Toughest Animals on Earth
N43 ANALYSIS Off-Duty N43 ANALYSIS Tardigrades: The Toughest Animals on Earth A microscopic animal that survives boiling, freezing, radiation, and the vacuum of space — and has been doing it for 600 million years. By N43 and Hermes…
How Music Affects the Brain
How Music Affects the Brain | N43 N43 ANALYSIS OFF-DUTY · 045 N43 ANALYSIS · NEUROSCIENCE How Music Affects the Brain Music activates more brain regions simultaneously than almost any other stimulus—and playing an instrument physically…
How Forest Fires Spread and Why Fire Ecology Matters
How Forest Fires Spread and Why Fire Ecology Matters | N43 N43 ANALYSIS WORLD · 044 N43 ANALYSIS · ENVIRONMENT How Forest Fires Spread and Why Fire Ecology Matters A wildfire is not a random disaster but a predictable physical process…
The Psychology of Cults and How They Recruit
The Psychology of Cults and How They Recruit | N43 N43 ANALYSIS OFF-DUTY · 043 N43 ANALYSIS · PSYCHOLOGY The Psychology of Cults and How They Recruit Cults do not recruit through random insanity. They use a predictable sequence of…
The Morning After
What a hangover reveals about ethanol metabolism, sleep, hydration, inflammation, and the nervous system.
The Mole Beneath the City
How tunnel boring machines cut, stabilize, line, and navigate the underground—and why geology decides everything.
Inside the Counterattack
How innate defenses, interferons, antibodies, and T cells coordinate to find and stop a virus.
Acoustic Levitation: How Sound Can Hold Objects in Air
Acoustic levitation: how high-intensity sound waves can suspend objects in mid-air using acoustic radiation pressure, standing waves, and ultrasonic transducers.
Pluto and the New Horizons Flyby
Pluto and the New Horizons flyby: how a piano-sized probe traveled 5 billion kilometers to reveal a complex, geologically active world at the edge of the Solar System.
The Apollo Guidance Computer and the Code That Landed on the Moon
The Apollo Guidance Computer: how a 70-pound machine with 4KB of RAM guided astronauts to the Moon and back, and the software engineering that made it possible.
The microbes in your pantry
Fermentation is microbial chemistry with a pantry-sized footprint: yeast makes bread rise and beer alcoholic, while bacteria turn cabbage into kimchi.
Time is not one thing
A practical guide to Einstein's time dilation: moving clocks, gravitational clocks, and why relativity is part of everyday satellite navigation.
The shortcut that became a global switch
How the Suez Canal compresses geography, concentrates maritime risk, and turns one narrow waterway into a lever on global trade.
Naked Mole Rats and the Biology of Cancer Resistance
Naked mole rats live 30 years, feel no pain, survive without oxygen, and almost never get cancer. The biology of the world's strangest mammal may hold keys to human longevity.
The Science of Camouflage
From octopus skin to dazzle ships to multicam uniforms, camouflage is the art of not being seen — or not being recognized. The science of hiding in plain sight, in nature and war.
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