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GuideDean Shaw23 Sept 20266 min

The Small Planes Worth Learning On and Worth Owning After

A used Cessna 172 is the safe answer, but it isn't the only one. What each trainer costs to fly, what breaks, and what to check before you buy.

Rooftop Solar and the Numbers That Actually Decide It

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GuideDean Shaw23 Sept 20266 min

What Holds a Bridge Up and What Eventually Takes One Down

Every bridge ever built solves the same two problems. Learn to read them, and a boring commute turns into a rolling engineering lecture.

GuideDean Shaw23 Sept 20266 min

Why Your Phone Dies at 30 Percent and EV Batteries Don't

The same chemistry sits in your pocket and under an electric car, so why does one quit after two years and the other last a decade?

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GuideDean Shaw23 Sept 20266 min

Why Your Blue Dot Jumps Downtown

Atomic clocks 12,550 miles up, a database of Wi-Fi router names, and a guess about your walking speed. That's your location.

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Why Airplanes Fly and Why Turbulence Won't Break One

The wing throws air downward, the air pushes back, and the bumps that terrify you're nowhere near what the structure was built to shrug off.

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GuideDean Shaw23 Sept 20266 min

Most of the Seafloor Has Never Been Properly Mapped

Pressure at the bottom of the Challenger Deep runs about eight tons per square inch, and that's the easy part to explain.

StoryDean Shaw23 Sept 20266 min

How the Hoover Dam Actually Holds Back Lake Mead

582 miles of pipe buried in concrete, four tunnels blasted through a canyon wall, and a wedge of rock-hard math that hasn't budged since 1936.

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GuideSam Ortiz23 Sept 20266 min

Five Saturday Science Projects That Actually Teach Something

The baking soda volcano is a dud. These five take an afternoon, cost almost nothing, and give your kids something they can change and test again.

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Five questions, honestly answered, and a plan for the next fortnight.

GuideDean Shaw23 Sept 20266 min

How a Car Engine Actually Works, Stroke by Stroke

Four moves, a few thousand times a minute, and a gallon of gas becomes forward motion. What's happening, and what actually kills engines.

GuideDean Shaw23 Sept 20265 min

The Real Story Behind SpaceX, NASA and the Race to the Moon

Strip out the hype and the space race comes down to one number, one unproven maneuver, and one country moving faster than most Americans realize.

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Ten Miles of Track in One Day

On April 28, 1869, a crew in the Utah desert broke a record nobody has broken since. Getting there took seven years, a mountain of granite, and men who kept showing up.

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How Artificial Intelligence Actually Works

Rooftop Solar and the Numbers That Actually Decide It

Worth an hour of your evening

What Holds a Bridge Up and What Eventually Takes One Down

Why Your Phone Dies at 30 Percent and EV Batteries Don't

Why Your Blue Dot Jumps Downtown

Why Airplanes Fly and Why Turbulence Won't Break One

Most of the Seafloor Has Never Been Properly Mapped

How the Hoover Dam Actually Holds Back Lake Mead

Five Saturday Science Projects That Actually Teach Something

How a Car Engine Actually Works, Stroke by Stroke

The Real Story Behind SpaceX, NASA and the Race to the Moon

Ten Miles of Track in One Day