# HIGH T3CH

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## The Tech Threat – Is Technology Taking Our Jobs?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-tech-threat-is-technology-taking-our-jobs/
Last updated: 2026-04-11T21:26:29+00:00

Are advances in artificial intelligence, robotics and other technologies leading to fewer jobs and more inequality? But the story isn’t only about jobs disappearing AI is also creating entirely new opportunities for people willing to adapt. Take web designers and marketing freelancers as an example. Instead of replacing them, AI is giving them superpowers. Tools like LeadRadar use artificial intelligence to scan Google Maps for local businesses with outdated or missing websites, score each one on dozens of quality signals, and serve up a ready-made list of prospects who actually need help. Rather than spending hours on manual research and

## How smart is today’s artificial intelligence?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-smart-is-todays-artificial-intelligence/
Last updated: 2026-04-11T21:24:08+00:00

Current AI is impressive, but it’s not intelligent. While today’s AI may not be truly “intelligent,” it’s already smart enough to handle tasks that used to take hours of manual work. A good example is AI-powered lead generation instead of a freelancer spending an entire day Googling local businesses and checking their websites one by one, AI can now scan hundreds of businesses on Google Maps in minutes, audit each site for speed, mobile design, and SEO issues, and rank them by who needs help the most. That’s exactly what LeadRadar does, turning what used to be tedious research into a

## Artificial Intelligence Will Infuse Everything
URL: https://hight3ch.com/artificial-intelligence-will-infuse-everything/
Last updated: 2026-04-11T21:19:49+00:00

The Future Is ALREADY Happening….. As AI becomes embedded in every industry, one area where it’s already making a real impact is lead generation for agencies and freelancers. Instead of cold-calling random businesses, an AI prospecting tool can now scan Google Maps, audit every website it finds for speed, mobile-friendliness, and SEO gaps, then rank leads by how badly they need help. LeadRadar does exactly this it surfaces local businesses with weak or missing websites and even drafts outreach emails so you know what to say. If you sell web design or marketing services, this is what artificial intelligence infusing

## The Last Job: Becoming a Walking Advertisement
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-last-job-becoming-a-walking-advertisement/
Last updated: 2026-03-17T16:01:32+00:00

If artificial intelligence keeps advancing at its current pace, it’s not hard to imagine a future where most traditional jobs disappear. Automation handles production, logistics, design, even creative work. In that world, value shifts away from labor and toward something far more limited: human attention. Attention becomes the scarce resource. We already see early signs of this shift. Social media rewards visibility. Influencers monetize their lives. Brands compete not just for customers, but for seconds of focus. Now take that trend to its logical extreme: what if your physical presence itself becomes ad space? Enter the idea of wearable displays—LCD

## Saudi Arabia Has Oil, America Has This
URL: https://hight3ch.com/saudi-arabia-has-oil-america-has-this/
Last updated: 2026-03-10T04:19:26+00:00

If the supply of this one material stopped flowing, the world would effectively slip backward in time 25 years. This is the story of America’s hidden monopoly on the ultra-pure quartz found in Spruce Pine, North Carolina—the only place on Earth capable of producing the raw material for advanced computer chips

## Government officials discuss UAPs, alien life in new documentary
URL: https://hight3ch.com/government-officials-discuss-uaps-alien-life-in-new-documentary/
Last updated: 2025-11-26T18:05:40+00:00

Thirty-four leaders in the government, military and intelligence communities, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, are featured in a new documentary on unidentified anomalous phenomena, also known as UAPs or UFOs. Dan Farah, director and producer of “The Age of Disclosure,” joins CBS News to discuss.

## The Electrical Blueprints That Orchestrate Life
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-electrical-blueprints-that-orchestrate-life/
Last updated: 2025-07-13T05:34:22+00:00

DNA isn’t the only builder in the biological world — there’s also a mysterious bioelectric layer directing cells to work together to grow organs, systems and bodies, says biologist Michael Levin. Sharing unforgettable and groundbreaking footage of two-headed worms, he introduces us to xenobots — the world’s first living robots, created in his lab by cracking the electrical code of cells — and discusses what this discovery may mean for the future of medicine, the environment and even life itself.

## HUGE Structures Discovered 2km BELOW Pyramid of Khafre?!
URL: https://hight3ch.com/huge-structures-discovered-2km-below-pyramid-of-khafre/
Last updated: 2025-03-22T05:10:17+00:00

A research team consisting of Corrado Malanga, Armando Mei, Filippo Biondi, and Nicole Ciccole has released new findings from a SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) scan conducted on the Giza Plateau, focusing specifically on the underground structures beneath the Khafre Pyramid. This work is part of the ongoing Khafre Research Project, which leverages advanced satellite technology to explore the site’s hidden architecture.

## Something weird happens when you keep squeezing
URL: https://hight3ch.com/something-weird-happens-when-you-keep-squeezing/
Last updated: 2023-11-15T18:26:09+00:00

Physicists have a pretty good handle on how stuff behaves on the surface of the Earth. But a lot of matter in the universe exists outside this narrow band of relatively low temperatures and pressures. Inside planets and stars, the crushing force of gravity begins to overwhelm the electromagnetic and nuclear forces that keep atoms apart and maintain the shapes of molecules.

## Engineering Breakthroughs That Will Feed The World
URL: https://hight3ch.com/engineering-breakthroughs-that-will-feed-the-world/
Last updated: 2023-08-25T01:05:09+00:00

Farming changed the world, we used to all spend our days trying to find enough food to survive. Then came farming, and people became musicians and writers, and well modern civilization. But growing food comes with its fair share of challenges, and feeding the next billion people, isn’t automatic.

## Affiliate Disclosure
URL: https://hight3ch.com/affiliate-disclosure/
Last updated: 2023-08-22T21:15:41+00:00

## The Secret Invention That Changed World War 2
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-secret-invention-that-changed-world-war-2/
Last updated: 2023-06-03T23:58:33+00:00

Interesting invention that changed the entire WWII.

## Why no one sounds exactly like you
URL: https://hight3ch.com/why-no-one-sounds-exactly-like-you/
Last updated: 2023-03-28T14:52:18+00:00

Most of us use our voices every day to communicate one way or another, but the way we produce sound is so much more than the words we say. Our voices are about as unique as fingerprints — similar instruments, but with endless variations. As humans, we each essentially produce sound in the same physiological way, but it’s not as simple as plucking a guitar string. And when we talk we’re dropping clues about who we are, what we do, and where we’re from. A dialect can hint where a person is from. An expressive range might suggest a person

## Inside The Lab That Tests Elevator Free-Falls
URL: https://hight3ch.com/inside-the-lab-that-tests-elevator-free-falls/
Last updated: 2023-03-22T17:08:01+00:00

Testing elevators is what the company Kone does in Finland as they move 1 billion people every day across the globe.

## An AI-powered Wearable Exoskeleton
URL: https://hight3ch.com/an-ai-powered-wearable-exoskeleton/
Last updated: 2023-03-20T21:50:11+00:00

A Chinese firm has developed a new exoskeleton technology called the Hypershell Omega.

## A Bus that Transforms Into a Train
URL: https://hight3ch.com/a-bus-that-transforms-into-a-train/
Last updated: 2023-03-20T21:45:23+00:00

The DMV, or Dual Mode Vehicle, on the Asa Coast Railway in Shikoku, Japan, is a hybrid bus and train.

## Why Car Companies Still Use Clay Models
URL: https://hight3ch.com/why-car-companies-still-use-clay-models/
Last updated: 2023-03-03T04:06:00+00:00

Car companies have built life-size clay models for almost 100 years, for nearly every car you see on the road. But modeling is an expensive process. Exotic luxury brands have admitted to spending over $650,000 for one model. So why do some companies still use up to 100 tons of clay each year?

## Why The US Military is Studying UFOs
URL: https://hight3ch.com/why-the-us-military-is-studying-ufos/
Last updated: 2023-02-10T18:35:59+00:00

The Pentagon is studying UFOs and they are taking the phenomenon very seriously.

## 21 Mind Traps : The Ultimate Guide to your most common Thinking errors
URL: https://hight3ch.com/21-mind-traps-the-ultimate-guide-to-your-most-common-thinking-errors/
Last updated: 2023-02-05T20:19:09+00:00

You probably think you are in complete control of your decisions and thoughts. But how often are they guided by something else? Something you don’t even notice occurring deep within your mind.

## Nikola Tesla: “God Lives Here”
URL: https://hight3ch.com/nikola-tesla-god-lives-here/
Last updated: 2023-02-05T20:04:08+00:00

Interesting look at Nikola Tesla’s work and the forces of vibration and energy which often remain obscure to us.

## Candela’s Flying Electric Boat 
URL: https://hight3ch.com/candelas-flying-electric-boat/
Last updated: 2022-12-09T18:27:28+00:00

Electrifying boats is enormously important but not always as straightforward as electrifying cars as water creates much more drag than air. To avoid using big batteries, companies need to explore alternative ways to make boats more efficient in order to maximise range. In Stockholm, Sweden that’s exactly what the team at Candela have been doing, borrowing some old hydrofoil technology and blending it with super sophisticated sensor systems to make its flagship C-8 electric speedboat that is not only hyper efficient and zero emissions, but also FLIES!

## Suspension axle concept 80 degrees of turning radius
URL: https://hight3ch.com/suspension-axle-concept-80-degrees-of-turning-radius/
Last updated: 2022-07-30T21:11:31+00:00

The “Easyturn” strut suspension axle design was developed by ZF (Zahnradfabrik Friedrichshafen), an American German auto parts and systems manufacturing firm.!

## The Science Behind Elon Musk’s Neuralink Brain Chip
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-science-behind-elon-musks-neuralink-brain-chip/
Last updated: 2022-03-08T19:02:55+00:00

Neuralink, Elon Musk’s brain chip, recently pushed back on claims that they violated animal welfare laws a few years ago, while testing on monkeys. This year, the company plans to test on human subjects. What does this mean for brain implant science?

## Presentation on Transhumanism and Future of Data
URL: https://hight3ch.com/presentation-on-transhumanism-and-future-of-data/
Last updated: 2022-03-06T20:44:08+00:00

A disturbing presentation on Transhumanism and there future of Humanity in the Digital Age, by Dr. Yuval Noah Harari, a Chief Advisor for The World Economic Forum (WEF)

## Roadside Wind Turbine Turns Traffic Into Energy
URL: https://hight3ch.com/roadside-wind-turbine-turns-traffic-into-energy/
Last updated: 2022-02-08T04:13:23+00:00

ENLIL is a roadside turbine designed to capture wind power from highway traffic.

## Futuristic Flying Yacht
URL: https://hight3ch.com/futuristic-flying-yacht/
Last updated: 2022-01-15T20:18:58+00:00

This Futuristic Flying Yacht Is Straight Out of Star Trek

## The First Warp-Bubble Created by DARPA
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-very-first-warp-bubble-created-by-darpa-funded-team/
Last updated: 2022-01-03T00:29:45+00:00

Warp drive pioneer and former NASA warp drive specialist Dr. Harold G “Sonny” White has reported the successful manifestation of an actual, real-world “Warp Bubble.” And, according to White, this first of its kind breakthrough by his Limitless Space Institute (LSI) team sets a new starting point for those trying to manufacture a full-sized, warp-capable spacecraft.

## The Insane Engineering of James Webb Telescope
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-insane-engineering-of-james-webb-telescope/
Last updated: 2021-12-18T22:48:06+00:00

Amazing dissection of the insane engineering of the James Webb telescope.

## 10,000-Year-Old Technology Helps These Home Resist Fires and Hurricanes
URL: https://hight3ch.com/10000-year-old-technology-helps-these-home-resist-fires-and-hurricanes/
Last updated: 2021-12-16T03:00:32+00:00

Advanced Earthen Construction Technologies has been building compressed earth block machines for over 30 years. All the machine needs to make the blocks is earth and dirt. Each machine can churn out 480 blocks an hour, giving users enough to build an entire house in one day.

## A Potential Source of Clean, Limitless Energy
URL: https://hight3ch.com/a-potential-source-of-clean-limitless-energy/
Last updated: 2021-12-03T19:36:24+00:00

Paul Thibado discovered that under the right circumstances, temperature changes caused by ambient heat makes graphene ripple and buckle. Now he’s using this idea to create an energy breakthrough: a device that harnesses the heat all around us to create electricity.

## Left Turns On a Bike Require You to First Turn Right
URL: https://hight3ch.com/left-turns-a-bike-require-you-to-first-turn-right/
Last updated: 2021-11-30T15:16:40+00:00

Why are bicycles stable? The most common answer is gyroscopic effects, but this is not right.

## Mercedes AVTR – A Closer Look
URL: https://hight3ch.com/mercedes-avtr-a-closer-look/
Last updated: 2021-11-18T02:50:33+00:00

This is the Mercedes AVTR, the coolest concept car in the world. This car can crab walk, be driven in both the left and right seats and has a million cool features. Today we show you around why this car is so special and even get to drive it in Dubai.

## Why America Is Terribly Designed
URL: https://hight3ch.com/why-america-is-terribly-designed/
Last updated: 2021-11-11T17:01:09+00:00

And considering what percentage of cars in the future will be shared rides, and the number of people working remotely, the city landscape could change.

## This Synthetic DNA Factory Is Building New Forms of Life
URL: https://hight3ch.com/this-synthetic-dna-factory-is-building-new-forms-of-life/
Last updated: 2021-10-16T18:30:50+00:00

In this DNA factory, organism engineers are using robots and automation to build completely new forms of life. Ginkgo Bioworks, a Boston company specializing in “engineering custom organisms,” aims to reinvent manufacturing, agriculture, biodesign, and more. Biologists, software engineers, and automated robots are working side by side to accelerate the speed of nature by taking synthetic DNA, remixing it, and programming microbes, turning custom organisms into mini-factories that could one day pump out new foods, fuels, and medicines. While there are possibly numerous positive and exciting outcomes from this research, like engineering gut bacteria to produce drugs inside the human

## The Insane Engineering of the 787
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-insane-engineering-of-the-787/
Last updated: 2021-10-05T18:18:07+00:00

The cool engineering of the 787 is really impressive.

## Why nuclear plants are shutting down
URL: https://hight3ch.com/why-nuclear-plants-are-shutting-down/
Last updated: 2021-10-03T22:53:45+00:00

The infamous Indian Point nuclear plant, located roughly 30 miles north of Manhattan, shut down earlier this year. To some, the shutdown was a victory following decades of protests about safety and environmental concerns. Here’s the problem: When operating, Indian Point provided more electricity than is produced annually by all solar and wind in New York state. And Indian Point is not the only plant closing. Cleo Abram explores why so many nuclear plants are shutting down – by taking a closer look at Indian Point.

## The Universe is Hostile to Computers
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-universe-is-hostile-to-computers/
Last updated: 2021-09-01T13:33:48+00:00

Tiny particles from distant galaxies have caused plane accidents, election interference and game glitches.

## The Hidden Pattern Behind Earth’s Biggest Disasters
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-hidden-pattern-behind-earths-biggest-disasters/
Last updated: 2021-08-18T14:14:17+00:00

It seems that the position of our solar system may have real effects on Earth’s events, and not in an astrological way. And want to hear something even wilder? Earth has a pulse. Well, sort of.

## Why it’s so hard to make CGI skin look real
URL: https://hight3ch.com/why-its-so-hard-to-make-cgi-skin-look-real/
Last updated: 2021-08-03T18:36:44+00:00

Realistic-looking skin isn’t all that different from realistic-looking skim milk. In the above video, Vox’s Phil Edwards looks at why realistic CGI skin is so hard for visual effects artists to master. Weta Digital’s Nick Epstein and Luxion’s Henrik Wann Jensen serve as guides to the parameters that separate realistic-looking skin from the waxy, fake-looking CGI of the past: albedo, displacements, subsurface scattering, and dynamic changes. There’s been extraordinary progress from the cutting-edge CGI characters in 2001’s Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within to 2019’s Alita: Battle Angel. This video shows a bit about how that happened.

## NanoWeb A Revolutionary Transparent Conductive Film
URL: https://hight3ch.com/nanoweb-a-revolutionary-transparent-conductive-film/
Last updated: 2021-07-16T01:33:31+00:00

NanoWeb® is a transparent conductor made of an invisible metal mesh that can be fabricated onto any glass or plastic surface. It offers a superior alternative to Indium Tin Oxide (ITO), Silver Nanowire (AgNW), graphene and carbon nanotube among other ITO-alternative technologies. It has a nanostructured thin metal layer that is a two-dimensional mesh of continuous wires. The design of the mesh geometry allows for a highly conductive and transparent layer. Due to its high conductivity, it is able to operate using very little power while remaining clear and transparent. Its grid of highly conductive lines allows more energy to

## How many robots does it take to run a grocery store?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-many-robots-does-it-take-to-run-a-grocery-store/
Last updated: 2021-07-05T19:38:26+00:00

In Ocado’s grocery warehouses, thousands of mechanical boxes move on the Hive. Are they all individual robots? Or is this one giant hive mind?

## The Hyperloop May Disrupt More Than Just Travel
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-hyperloop-may-disrupt-more-than-just-travel/
Last updated: 2021-05-24T02:13:05+00:00

Elon Musk coined the term Hyperloop back in 2013 when he released his vision for a fifth mode of transport. Since then, engineers around the world have been working to make his idea a reality sooner than you might think. Virgin Hyperloop has successfully tested the technology with human passengers and in Europe, Hardt Hyperloop is working on the technology and international coalition building needed to create entire Hyperloop networks. On this episode of Accelerate, we’ll look at how one Hyperloop track could take passengers from San Francisco to Los Angeles in a half hour, and how Hyperloop networks could

## Diet Coke can Kill – Aspartame Documentary 1h 30min
URL: https://hight3ch.com/diet-coke-can-kill-aspartame-documentary-1h-30min/
Last updated: 2021-05-04T14:19:50+00:00

Every once in a while I realize how ignorant I am and to be honest its a pretty depressing feeling. Diet Coke causing cancer and other symptoms might not be fresh news for you but for me it is. Its the issue about Aspartame which is used in many products we eat. This documentary really opened my eyes on what substances are used in our everyday foods and how clueless we are about the health hazards they can cause. Diet Cokes and Chewing Gums are no longer things I consider safe. In my mind they now fall under the same

## Royal Navy Soldiers Having Fun with Jet Packs
URL: https://hight3ch.com/royal-navy-soldiers-having-fun-with-jet-packs/
Last updated: 2021-05-03T15:36:49+00:00

Apparently these jets can go up to 300 km/h.

## WeedEater Battle in Slow Motion
URL: https://hight3ch.com/weedeater-battle-in-slow-motion/
Last updated: 2021-04-30T01:50:39+00:00

Weed Eater Wars: 8 Types of Weedeater Line square off in a single elimination battle.

## Candela C-7 – This Boat “Floats” On Water
URL: https://hight3ch.com/candela-c-7-this-boat-floats-on-water/
Last updated: 2021-04-29T19:38:51+00:00

The Candela C-7’s hull gets lifted by its hydrofoil system, so it essentially floats above the water.

## Real Warp Drives? New research proposes a solution!
URL: https://hight3ch.com/real-warp-drives-new-research-proposes-a-solution/
Last updated: 2021-04-24T15:20:51+00:00

New research suggests that warp drive might actually be possible and not just science fiction.

## How Ocean Currents Work (and How We Are Breaking Them)
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-ocean-currents-work-and-how-we-are-breaking-them/
Last updated: 2021-04-19T18:33:03+00:00

Ocean currents are our planet’s circulatory system, and they keep everything from ecosystems to the climate healthy. But we’re changing Earth in ways that threaten to disrupt and even break critical ocean currents like the planet-wide Great Ocean Conveyor. This could have devastating effects on our future. In this video, we explain how ocean currents work, how climate change is threatening to disrupt them, and what we can do to stop that from happening.

## The Bridge Design that Helped Win World War II
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-bridge-design-that-helped-win-world-war-ii/
Last updated: 2021-03-12T15:12:44+00:00

It’s a simple innovation that helped win a war. The Bailey bridge was Donald Bailey’s innovative solution to a number of wartime obstacles. The allies needed a way to cross bodies of water quickly, but bombed-out bridges — or an absence of crossings entirely — made that incredibly difficult. That was only compounded by new, heavy tanks that needed incredibly strong support. Bailey’s innovation — a modular, moveable panel bridge — solved those problems and gave the allies a huge advantage. The 570-pound steel panel could be lifted by just six men, and the supplies could fit inside small service

## How Will NASA Test The Next Lunar Lander?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-will-nasa-test-the-next-lunar-lander/
Last updated: 2021-03-07T18:26:53+00:00

Dustin from Smarter Every Day is again making us smarter.

## Micro Hydropower : Turbulent Turbines
URL: https://hight3ch.com/micro-hydropower-turbulent-turbines/
Last updated: 2021-03-07T18:25:06+00:00

Hydropower has been with us for millennia, but the 20th Century race to build huge centralised hydropower dams in many parts of the world has caused untold environmental damage. Now a new micro-hydropower technology is working with the natural flow of water and wildlife rather than against it, to bring much needed constant baseload power to off grid areas in remote areas of developing nations.

## Billions In Change – Documentary
URL: https://hight3ch.com/billions-in-change-documentary/
Last updated: 2021-02-22T03:46:36+00:00

New film, New Ideas New Inventions. Billions in Change 2 shows how simple life-changing inventions provide clean water, electricity, and improve the lives of farmers. See how these inventions will enable the unlucky half of the world to improve their lives.

## The Truth About Pumped Hydro
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-truth-about-pumped-hydro/
Last updated: 2021-02-20T17:50:07+00:00

This video was created in partnership with Bill Gates, inspired by his new book “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster.”

## What Do Alien Civilizations Look Like? The Kardashev Scale
URL: https://hight3ch.com/what-do-alien-civilizations-look-like-the-kardashev-scale/
Last updated: 2021-02-14T18:59:28+00:00

The observable universe is a big place that has been around for more than 13 billion years. Up to two trillion galaxies made up of something like 20,000 billion billion stars surround our home galaxy. In the milky way alone scientists assume there are some 40 billion earth like planets in the habitable zone of their stars. When we look at these numbers it is hard to imagine that there is nobody else out there.

## Inside the CyberHouse Bunker
URL: https://hight3ch.com/inside-the-cyberhouse-bunker/
Last updated: 2021-02-10T18:51:24+00:00

The Cyberhouse is the perfect companion to the Cybertruck. This futuristic home concept is perfectly suited to a post-apocalyptic world. The base price for a Cyberhouse is $865,000, and a fully decked out Cyberhouse will cost more than $1 million. There’s no doubt that the Cyberhouse would make a perfect bunker for Elon Musk. The Cyberhouse can withstand nuclear attacks and is powered by a combination of wind power and solar power. There’s also a generator room that supplies emergency power. The lower level of the Cyberhouse is a bunker; this level contains a high-tech security room and a supply

## Architects Built a Ridiculously Fancy Underground House Into a Cliff
URL: https://hight3ch.com/architects-built-a-ridiculously-fancy-underground-house-into-a-cliff/
Last updated: 2021-02-06T17:47:42+00:00

The Athens-based architecture firm Mold Architects led by Iliana Kerestetzi has recently completed nCAVED House, a private residence located in Agios Sostis, Serifos Island, Greece. NCaved is located on a small secluded rocky cove seemingly hovering just above sea level. The need to create a protected shelter, at a location of disarming view, but openly exposed to strong north winds, led us to the decision to drill the slope, instead of arranging a set of spaces in line at ground level.

## These Window Curtains Use Sand
URL: https://hight3ch.com/these-window-curtains-use-sand/
Last updated: 2021-02-04T02:12:45+00:00

When you see it you will ask yourself why you didn’t invent it and why was this not commercialized before.

## Magnetically Assisted Gears
URL: https://hight3ch.com/magnetically-assisted-gears/
Last updated: 2021-01-19T02:40:58+00:00

MAGS – magnetically assisted gears, they never touch and they do not lose energy as there is no friction.

## Dall-E – The AI Which Can Generate New Images
URL: https://hight3ch.com/dall-e-the-ai-which-can-generate-new-images/
Last updated: 2021-01-18T16:42:44+00:00

Dall-E is an AI which can generate images based on the input and it does so in a fairly accurate manner. I find this very impressive. You can try it yourself here.

## Deep-sea Mining for Electric Vehicle Batteries
URL: https://hight3ch.com/deep-sea-mining-for-electric-vehicle-batteries/
Last updated: 2021-01-16T18:57:15+00:00

## The Pacific Ocean is VASTLY Bigger Than You Think
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-pacific-ocean-is-vastly-bigger-than-you-think/
Last updated: 2021-01-10T21:40:05+00:00

It is not easy to visualize the Pacific Ocean’s size…

## Illusions of Time
URL: https://hight3ch.com/illusions-of-time/
Last updated: 2021-01-10T21:33:05+00:00

VSauce is at it again a video about time that is impossible to create a description for.

## Carbon fibre is insanely strong…until you…
URL: https://hight3ch.com/carbon-fibre-is-insanely-strong-until-you/
Last updated: 2020-12-26T02:29:22+00:00

Carbon fibre is insanely strong, around 10x stronger than steel, however put under any load other than tension, the strength just disappears. This is why it is very important to ensure you lay your CF sheets or tow in the correct orientation to ensure it stays in tension.

## This Battery-Free Game Boy Will Last Forever
URL: https://hight3ch.com/this-battery-free-game-boy-will-last-forever/
Last updated: 2020-12-20T20:51:01+00:00

This is Engage, a battery-free Game Boy lookalike that can play all the classics from Super Mario to Tetris to Space Invaders. While the device looks like a Game Boy and plays like one, it’s really something revolutionary. The Engage device harvests energy from these solar panels and these mechanical buttons. So the buttons have these magnets that are pushed through coils. They change the magnetic field and we harvest that change. The frequency of your button mashing will determine how much energy you actually have. Then the solar panels are also gathering energy and eventually it all flows into

## The quest for Nikola Tesla’s wireless power technology
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-quest-for-nikola-teslas-wireless-power-technology/
Last updated: 2020-12-10T17:57:22+00:00

Nikola Tesla’s biggest dream was a worldwide network of wireless power transmission. He built a lab and a massive prototype transmission tower…that never worked. But, a century later, engineers are chasing the same dreams of wireless power and making some tantalizing headway. So was Tesla onto something?

## Better brain health | Documentary
URL: https://hight3ch.com/better-brain-health-documentary/
Last updated: 2020-12-03T15:02:56+00:00

Chocolate reduces stress. Fish stimulates the brain. Is there any truth to such popular beliefs? The findings of researchers around the world say yes: It appears we really are what we eat. A study in a British prison found that inmates who took vitamin supplements were less prone to violent behavior. And in Germany, a psychologist at the University of Lübeck has shown that social behavior is influenced by the ingredients consumed at breakfast. But what really happens in the brain when we opt for honey instead of jam, and fish rather than sausage? Scientists around the world are trying

## Are Renewable Powered Ships Possible?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/are-renewable-powered-ships-possible/
Last updated: 2020-11-25T05:16:26+00:00

After seeing how cruise ships are destroying the world, here comes a neat explanation of how ships can use renewable power.

## Nikola Tesla Knew The Purpose of the Pyramids: Rediscovered Technology
URL: https://hight3ch.com/nikola-tesla-knew-the-purpose-of-the-pyramids-rediscovered-technology/
Last updated: 2020-11-20T00:35:22+00:00

Our scholars of ancient history present a new theory concerning the Great Pyramid of Giza that you may not be familiar with. The greatest secret may not be in its construction, but as a powerful device which enabled the rebirth of Osiris as Horus. Its shape and location harbor mathematical constants, only recently discovered, that can be found throughout nature and across the universe. Such secrets may have been known to Nicola Tesla who sought to tap into the electromagnetic currents of the earth to bring limitless electrical power to the world. Combining ancient and modern knowledge, with the enduring

## This ‘Magic Ion’ in Your Tap Water Could Be Making You Happier
URL: https://hight3ch.com/this-magic-ion-in-your-tap-water-could-be-making-you-happier/
Last updated: 2020-11-18T15:30:42+00:00

Tap water contains traces of lithium, a natural element that’s widely used as a mood-stabilizing treatment. Could this exposure be impacting our moods?

## How fast is the speed of thought?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-fast-is-the-speed-of-thought/
Last updated: 2020-11-16T16:42:21+00:00

Travel into the brain to see how its network of neurons transmit your thoughts and what factors determine how quickly you think.

## Trying to Catch a 1,000 MPH Baseball
URL: https://hight3ch.com/trying-to-catch-a-1000-mph-baseball/
Last updated: 2020-11-12T21:51:13+00:00

Dustin from Smarter Every Day is at it again, trying to dust off some anger issues towards baseballs.

## This Plane Tried To Do The Impossible: The Caproni Transaereo
URL: https://hight3ch.com/this-plane-tried-to-do-the-impossible-the-caproni-transaereo/
Last updated: 2020-10-30T18:50:25+00:00

In June of 1919, two daring British aviators made the world’s first successful non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean from North America to Europe using a modified Vickers Vimey airplane. In just 16 hours, they achieved what up until that point, required days to accomplish by ocean liner. John Alcock and Arthur Brown’s transatlantic flight was celebrated around the world as a monumental achievement, but regular passenger carrying flights were still decades from becoming reality. In 1919 flight was still in its infancy, and knowledge about aerodynamics and the mechanics of flight were still rudimentary. But a pioneering Italian aircraft

## Is human evolution speeding up or slowing down?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/is-human-evolution-speeding-up-or-slowing-down/
Last updated: 2020-10-25T18:02:34+00:00

In the past 3,000 years, many populations have evolved genetic adaptations to their local environments. People in Siberia and the high arctic are uniquely adapted to survive extreme cold. The Bajau people can dive 70 meters and stay underwater for almost 15 minutes. So what are other recent changes? And will our technological innovations impact our evolution? Laurence Hurst investigates.

## The Infinite Pattern That Never Repeats
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-infinite-pattern-that-never-repeats/
Last updated: 2020-10-25T18:00:24+00:00

Simples rules of geometry meant that 5-fold symmetry was impossible as were crystals without a periodic structure. This turns out to be wrong. Thanks to LastPass for sponsoring a portion of this video.

## Tesla’s Battery Supply Probleme
URL: https://hight3ch.com/teslas-battery-supply-probleme/
Last updated: 2020-10-25T17:35:07+00:00

Tesla has some serious issues in terms of supply for the electric vehicle industry.

## How the Milk Industry Lied to the World
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-the-milk-industry-lied-to-the-world/
Last updated: 2020-10-21T13:32:11+00:00

We’re told that milk is important for a strong healthy body, and if you stop consuming dairy most people will turn around and say “wait, how are you going to get your calcium”? But everything we’ve been led to believe about dairy is a product of marketing, advertising and government collusion. This is how the dairy industry lied to the world.

## Amazing Image of Earth Comparing it’s Water and Air
URL: https://hight3ch.com/amazing-image-of-earth-comparing-its-water-and-air/
Last updated: 2020-10-04T05:27:47+00:00

This is just a reminder of how fragile our planet is. The density of the air pictured here corresponds to its density at sea level (one atmosphere.) Image made by Globaia.

## The Mystery Flaw of Solar Panels
URL: https://hight3ch.com/mystery-flaw-of-solar-panels/
Last updated: 2020-09-29T01:31:12+00:00

There is a very well known issue with solar cells, they lose their capacity as soon as they are used the second time by as much as 10% and we had no idea why that was happening in the past.

## What Evidence Do We Have for Life on Mars?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/what-evidence-do-we-have-for-life-on-mars/
Last updated: 2020-09-29T01:25:22+00:00

One of the main jobs of Perseverance, the Mars 2020 rover, is to find signs of ancient microbial life on Mars. So, how will it meet this goal when it reaches the red planet next year?

## 20 Lost Inventions
URL: https://hight3ch.com/20-lost-inventions/
Last updated: 2020-09-29T01:04:41+00:00

1 – The Construction Methods of Edward Leedskalnin Edward was a modest man, with a mysterious knowledge which he carried to his grave. Born in 1886, Edward was a Latvian immigrant who settled in Florida. He once said, “I have discovered the secrets of the pyramids. I discovered how the ancient Egyptians and builders in Peru, Yucatan and Asia, with simple tools, have lifted stones weighing tons “. Edward did not just speak of his discovery, he even built a castle to prove it, a theme park and museum called Coral Castle in Florida City. With tools crafted from auto

## Concept Weapons for Surprise Attacks
URL: https://hight3ch.com/concept-weapons-for-surprise-attacks/
Last updated: 2020-09-18T04:13:04+00:00

This video shows some interesting concepts for surprise attacks and technology which allows ambush. The animation and concepts are made by Dahir Semenov. Check out his YouTube channel.

## How America can leave fossil fuels behind, in one chart
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-america-can-leave-fossil-fuels-behind-in-one-chart/
Last updated: 2020-09-15T16:41:43+00:00

All of recorded human history has happened during a period in which the average global temperature didn’t change by more than 1 degree Celsius. But the burning of fossil fuels has triggered a temperature rise projected to exceed 3 degrees by the end of the century. It will be catastrophic. But it can be avoided if we massively scale back the burning of fossil fuels. The US isn’t the biggest emitter of carbon dioxide in the world, but it’s emitted more carbon dioxide in total than any other country. So the US has an important role to play in global

## TOP 10 Future Weapons
URL: https://hight3ch.com/top-10-future-weapons/
Last updated: 2020-09-13T19:36:20+00:00

UPDATE: There is now an updated list of future weapons. Being an anti-war activist I must say that I am not too proud presenting this TOP 10 Weapons list. However, since it is tech oriented and since I am a tech addict, I cannot resist but to show you these pretty interesting weapons of the future. If you know a weapon that should be on this list, let me know. Check out also the TOP 10 Vehicle Arresting Systems.

## Top 10 Weapons of the Future – Vol 2
URL: https://hight3ch.com/top-10-weapons-of-the-future-vol-2/
Last updated: 2020-09-13T19:35:06+00:00

This will not be the first time I make a top 10 list for future weapons. Initially it was created in 2007 and now has been updated slightly. Plus with an animated voice-over video! As always, let’s hope that none of these weapons be used, ever. 1 – The Iron Dome Force Field The Iron Dome is a top-secret defense weapon that works like a futuristic force field. It’s a mobile air defense system designed to intercept and destroy short-range rockets and artillery shells. Thought to be strictly science fiction, it is now very real. This invisible force can break

## Why Socrates Hated Democracy
URL: https://hight3ch.com/why-socrates-hated-democracy/
Last updated: 2020-09-13T16:06:00+00:00

We’re used to thinking hugely well of democracy. But interestingly, one of the wisest people who ever lived, Socrates, had deep suspicions of it.

## How Brain Uploading Could Become Reality Within 100 Years
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-brain-uploading-could-become-reality-within-100-years/
Last updated: 2020-09-10T20:45:56+00:00

As long as people have been alive, they’ve wanted to stay alive. But unlike finding the fountain of youth or becoming a vampire, uploading your brain to a computer might actually be possible. Theoretically, we already know how to do it. Technically, we have a long way to go. We explain the main technological advancements that we’ll need to make whole brain emulation a reality.

## Supersonic Baseball Cannon (World’s Fastest Baseball)
URL: https://hight3ch.com/supersonic-baseball-cannon-worlds-fastest-baseball/
Last updated: 2020-09-06T18:54:39+00:00

Dustin is at it again, he is doing a cool experiment with baseballs. Go support him and his channel!

## The San Diego Sphere – UFO — Witness Testimony
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-san-diego-sphere-ufo-witness-testimony/
Last updated: 2020-09-06T04:48:38+00:00

On September 10th, 2014, Rick Ybarra pulled into his driveway near San Diego, CA around 6:45pm when he noticed a sphere in the sky. A retired Department of Defense therapist who worked at Naval Base San Diego and Submarine Base Point Loma, we recently spoke to him about the sighting.

## The Man Who Did Not Eat for 382 Days
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-man-who-did-not-eat-for-382-days/
Last updated: 2020-09-03T18:50:18+00:00

In 1965, 27-year-old Angus Barbieri checked himself into the Maryfield Hospital in Scotland. He complained to the doctor that he was too obese. He weighed 456 lbs or 207 kg. Barbieri’s doctors suggested for him to start fasting, presumably in the hope that his stomach would shrink, reducing his appetite and his capacity for food. Astonishingly Barbieri was having no trouble starving himself, so he decided to continue fasting with the doctor’s supervision. Barbieri’s doctors prescribed a new diet of non-caloric fluids, vitamin/mineral supplements, electrolytes, and yeast. The man continued with this arrangement and periodically doing urine tests. Barbieri continued

## The Patara Pipes ⁓ Proof Of A Lost Civilization?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-patara-pipes-%e2%81%93-proof-of-a-lost-civilization/
Last updated: 2020-09-03T02:03:22+00:00

There is a very interesting look at the Patara Pipes, located in Turkey.

## Japan’s ‘flying car’ gets off ground
URL: https://hight3ch.com/japans-flying-car-gets-off-ground/
Last updated: 2020-09-01T02:23:46+00:00

The decades-old dream of zipping around in the sky as simply as driving on highways may be becoming less illusory. Japan’s SkyDrive Inc., among the myriads of “flying car” projects around the world, has carried out a successful though modest test flight with one person aboard. The Japanese government is bullish on “the Jetsons” vision, with a “road map” for business services by 2023, and expanded commercial use by the 2030s, stressing its potential for connecting remote areas and providing lifelines in disasters.

## Five Intriguing Places Forbidden to Tourists
URL: https://hight3ch.com/five-intriguing-places-forbidden-to-tourists/
Last updated: 2020-08-29T18:01:21+00:00

1 – Mount Athos Mount Athos, a 130 square mile peninsula in northeastern Greece that has been a home to several orthodox monasteries for over 1000 years.But it is also home to an old world tradition that is still strictly enforced: no women are allowed on Mount Athos. It is because of a local legend claiming that Virgin Mary was blown off course in her attempts to sail to Cyprus and was stranded on Mount Athos, which she came to regard as her home, and which was bestowed upon her by God. To this day, Mount Athos is referred to

## Five Technologies to Pimp Your Car
URL: https://hight3ch.com/five-technologies-to-pimp-your-car/
Last updated: 2020-08-26T03:14:58+00:00

1 – LumiLore LumiLore a paint that turns on with a switch: You probably thought that the creativity of car paint stopped at vinyl car wraps, but you would be very wrong. New technologies have allowed the art of painting a car to evolve much beyond the conventional methods. LumiLore is an electroluminescent paint and it can be applied to any non-porous substrate including but not limited to Metal, wood, fiberglass, carbon fiber, plastic and vinyl. This is a patented electroluminescent coating technology that can be turned on and off with a flick of a switch. If you ever needed

## How the Largest Car Factory in the World Transports Its Vehicles
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-the-largest-car-factory-in-the-world-transports-its-vehicles/
Last updated: 2020-08-24T14:18:21+00:00

The VW plant in Wolfsburg is so large that it has the biggest private train station in Europe. Richard Hammond learns what other technological innovations the company uses to ensure its cars are delivered to customers quickly and efficiently.

## The Fighter Jet That Shot Itself Down
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-fighter-jet-that-shot-itself-down/
Last updated: 2020-08-24T14:10:13+00:00

In the early days of jet powered fighter planes, one unlucky test pilot achieved the seemingly impossible: he shot himself down.

## The Strange Effect of Dot Patterns
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-strange-effect-of-dot-patterns/
Last updated: 2020-08-24T14:00:20+00:00

Tadashi Tokieda illusions are back, this time with Moiré Patterns. I find this man’s accent as fascinating as the strange dot effect. I love how he pronounces the individual words correctly but somehow still sounds Japanese. I love it because I have an accent too.

## Could Anti-gravity Really be Possible?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/could-anti-gravity-really-be-possible/
Last updated: 2020-08-24T01:31:37+00:00

Anti-gravity is one of those controversial subjects that some say is more in the realm of science fiction than science fact with many physicists saying it’s just not theoretically possible while others are busy trying to find theories that would allow it to be possible. In this video, we look at some of the things that we thought were anti-gravity but turned out not to be and what could be our nearest discovery with the vailidation of Einstein’s predictions of space and gravity warping.

## Inside Norway’s $47 Billion Floating Highway
URL: https://hight3ch.com/inside-norways-47-billion-floating-highway/
Last updated: 2020-08-20T21:40:38+00:00

The Norwegian Public Roads Administration is in the process of creating the world’s first floating highway. The Coastal Highway Route E39 will cut down a 21 hour travel time between the Norwegian cities of Kristiansand in the south and Trondheim in the north by at least half through the elimination of seven different ferry crossings. These crossings will be replaced with bridges, tunnels, and the innovative new Submerged Floating Tube Bridges which give the Coastal road its nickname. But Norway has its work cut out for it, as a project of this size and scale with the use of the

## Is Dust Mostly Dead Skin?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/is-dust-mostly-dead-skin/
Last updated: 2020-08-20T21:40:26+00:00

People claim that 70-80% of household dust is dead skin, but is it true?

## Unlimited Resources From Space – Asteroid Mining
URL: https://hight3ch.com/unlimited-resources-from-space-asteroid-mining/
Last updated: 2020-08-16T16:23:51+00:00

There has been plenty of talk about Bitcoin being deflationary because it has a set amount of coins and that gold is inflationary because it has an unlimited supply in space. If only we could mine all the gold from space then the value of gold would be worthless. This video is exactly about that.

## Fact-Checking this Viral Bottle Trick
URL: https://hight3ch.com/fact-checking-this-viral-bottle-trick/
Last updated: 2020-08-14T17:48:39+00:00

Breaking the bottom out of a glass bottle by hitting the top is a challenging trick, but involves a ton of physics. The explanation is related to cavitation – a process seen in the Mantis Shrimp attack, head injuries and pouring honey!

## Controlling an RC Car from a Projector
URL: https://hight3ch.com/controlling-an-rc-car-from-a-projector/
Last updated: 2020-08-13T16:22:41+00:00

Now you can bet that this will be a toy that will sell very well for Christmas, very very soon.

## SeaBike – Device for Rapid Movement in the Water
URL: https://hight3ch.com/seabike-device-for-rapid-movement-in-the-water/
Last updated: 2020-08-13T13:40:15+00:00

## These 3D Printed Homes Are Created On The Spot
URL: https://hight3ch.com/these-3d-printed-homes-are-created-on-the-spot/
Last updated: 2020-08-10T22:30:54+00:00

Mighty Buildings’ 3D homes are turn-key, so once you select the building you want the home is delivered and installed on the spot.

## First Boat to Make its Own Hydrogen Fuel from Seawater
URL: https://hight3ch.com/first-boat-to-make-its-own-hydrogen-fuel-from-seawater/
Last updated: 2020-07-27T04:02:48+00:00

The Energy Observer set sail on a six-year world tour in 2017, testing new technologies, from onboard hydrogen electrolysis to fully-automated sails. It’s hoped the rugged ocean environment will prove the techs’ durability and usefulness at home.

## Portable Device Turns Seawater Into Drinking Water
URL: https://hight3ch.com/portable-device-turns-seawater-into-drinking-water/
Last updated: 2020-07-13T23:04:14+00:00

QuenchSea is a portable device that removes the salt and minerals from seawater, creating fresh drinking water.

## A Million Dollars vs A Billion Dollars, Visualised: A Road Trip
URL: https://hight3ch.com/a-million-dollars-vs-a-billion-dollars-visualised-a-road-trip/
Last updated: 2020-07-13T16:56:40+00:00

There are lots of ways to compare a million to a billion, but most of them use volume. And I think that’s a mistake, because volume just isn’t something the human brain is great at. So instead, here’s the difference between a million and a billion, in a more one-dimensional way: distance.

## All That We Can Do With Cannabis Technology – Documentary
URL: https://hight3ch.com/all-that-we-can-do-with-cannabis-technology-documentary/
Last updated: 2020-07-13T16:47:46+00:00

“When We Grow…This Is What We Can Do” is an educational documentary concerning the facts about cannabis. In this feature length documentary we explore everything there is, from industrial hemp to medicinal cannabis use, from the origins of cannabis prohibition to the legality of growing equipment.A film by Seth Finegold and presented by Luke Bailey.

## We Still Don’t Understand What Water Is, Here’s Why
URL: https://hight3ch.com/we-still-dont-understand-what-water-is-heres-why/
Last updated: 2020-06-25T16:56:47+00:00

I am fascinated by water as you may already know, I have been posting documentaries on it for years now. Here is one which links to another documentary called “Water the great mystery”, it’s really worth a watch. And there is also the fourth phase of water. Water can dissolve more solids than any other substance, water has at least 66 properties that differentiate it from most other liquids, and water is almost the only liquid in the universe where the solid form is less dense than the liquid form. Water is really weird, but it has also made life

## How LED walls were used to replace green screens in The Mandalorian
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-led-walls-were-used-to-replace-green-screens-in-the-mandalorian/
Last updated: 2020-06-16T01:33:01+00:00

For decades, film and TV productions have used green and blue screens to place actors into new environments. Now, LED walls are revolutionizing this process by projecting 3D environments in real time behind actors to provide the illusion of being in a physical location. These methods were put to the test on Disney’s “The Mandalorian,” of which over half was filmed indoors on a virtual set. This process of combining traditional cinematography techniques with advanced world-building technology effectively eliminates the need for a green screen.

## Automatic golf club replaces a bag of clubs and improves your game
URL: https://hight3ch.com/automatic-golf-club-replaces-a-bag-of-clubs-and-improves-your-game/
Last updated: 2020-06-03T21:29:00+00:00

This is a robotic club that senses your swing and corrects your shot for distance. It should be possible to correct for slice and hook with some hardware and software upgrades. It also has a cool mode where it can be any iron so no need to carry eleven clubs.

## S. Korean scientist successfully cures a patient’s Parkinson’s disease
URL: https://hight3ch.com/s-korean-scientist-successfully-cures-a-patients-parkinsons-disease/
Last updated: 2020-06-03T00:06:22+00:00

A Korean scientist became the first in the world to successfully cure a patient’s Parkinson’s disease by using their own stem cells. A Harvard Medical School research team, led by Professor Kim Kwang-soo…, used a process called dedifferentiation, which reverts cells to an earlier developmental stage, and implanted them into the brain. The patient has recovered and is now strong enough to swim and ride a bike. Highlighting the need for more clinical tests,… Professor Kim vowed to continue his work, in order to establish this treatment as a key cure for Parkinson’s disease.

## Here’s How Fast Cars Would Be If They Advanced At The Pace Of Computers
URL: https://hight3ch.com/heres-how-fast-cars-would-be-if-they-advanced-at-the-pace-of-computers/
Last updated: 2020-05-29T00:29:52+00:00

The idea of comparing the pace of development of computers to cars has been around a while. Snopes traces the idea all the way back to some early-internet joke in 1997, even. Fundamentally, it’s sort of an absurd comparison—the two technologies are so different, they’re really not comparable. I did it anyway.

## We Still Don’t Know Why Glass Exists, Here’s Why
URL: https://hight3ch.com/we-still-dont-know-why-glass-exists-heres-why/
Last updated: 2020-05-13T14:41:23+00:00

Glass is an integral piece to many parts of our modern lives—it is in our smartphones, high-speed fiber optic cables, windows, and so on. And though, we are surrounded by glass in our everyday lives, scientists remain puzzled by the material and why it forms the way it does. Silica is the type of glass you are probably most familiar with, but there are many more types of glass beyond silica. Glass is mysterious, in that it is technically any rigid amorphous solid, which means its atoms and molecules are not arranged in an orderly structure but instead exist in

## Experimental tokamak thermonuclear fusion reactor
URL: https://hight3ch.com/experimental-tokamak-thermonuclear-fusion-reactor/
Last updated: 2020-05-07T00:41:13+00:00

Welcome to ITER NOW! This April, under strict hygienic safety standards established during the global Covid-19 pandemic, two 360-tonne toroidal field coils – the magnets at the center of the ITER Tokamak – arrived at the ITER worksite, after 30 years of collaborative design, international negotiation, and precise manufacturing. The first TF coil – #9 – arrived from Italy, under contract from the ITER European Domestic Agency, Fusion for Energy. A week later, a second TF coil from Japan also arrived, and ITER NOW was there to record the official document signing transfer ownership of the coil to the ITER

## A new way to grow islands and coastlines
URL: https://hight3ch.com/a-new-way-to-grow-islands-and-coastlines/
Last updated: 2020-05-07T00:36:52+00:00

What if we could harness the ocean’s movement to protect coastal communities from rising sea levels? Designer and TED Fellow Skylar Tibbits shows how his lab is creating a dynamic, adaptable system of underwater structures that uses energy from ocean waves to accumulate sand and restore eroding shorelines — working with the forces of nature to build rather than destroy.

## Ancient Aliens: Mysterious Metals from Outer Space
URL: https://hight3ch.com/ancient-aliens-mysterious-metals-from-outer-space/
Last updated: 2020-05-01T02:19:11+00:00

Researching ancient cultures, archaeologists have found mysterious metals with no clear origin. Ancient astronaut theorists believe these mysterious alloys could be evidence of alien communication with mankind in this clip from Season 12, “Forged By the Gods.”

## Disillusion on Renewable Energies | Planet of the Humans | Documentary
URL: https://hight3ch.com/disillusion-on-renewable-energies-planet-of-the-humans-documentary/
Last updated: 2020-04-23T04:12:24+00:00

Michael Moore presents Planet of the Humans, a documentary that dares to say what no one else will this Earth Day — that we are losing the battle to stop climate change on planet earth because we are following leaders who have taken us down the wrong road — selling out the green movement to wealthy interests and corporate America. This film is the wake-up call to the reality we are afraid to face: that in the midst of a human-caused extinction event, the environmental movement’s answer is to push for techno-fixes and band-aids. It’s too little, too late. Removed

## Farming Metal From Plants Could Be the Future of Sustainable Tech
URL: https://hight3ch.com/farming-metal-from-plants-could-be-the-future-of-sustainable-tech/
Last updated: 2020-04-22T16:31:07+00:00

Hyperaccumulators are plants that have evolved to absorb metal, lots of metal, from the soil. These metal consuming plants come in many different kinds, and after feasting the metal remains within them—running through their vascular structures in their sap, or even their shoots, seeds, and leaves. And a group of researchers is currently working on extracting metal from said plants—Phyllanthus rufuschaneyi, specifically. Phyllanthus rufuschaneyi is a plant that accumulates nickel, and the group of researchers reside on the island of Borneo in Malaysia. As the demand for nickel continues to increase (nickel is an essential component of stainless steal, and

## Man Builds His Own Flight Simulator
URL: https://hight3ch.com/man-builds-his-own-flight-simulator/
Last updated: 2020-04-13T01:50:01+00:00

Home Sim Pilot builds his own Cessna 172 Flight Simulator

## Why We Still Don’t Have Electric Planes
URL: https://hight3ch.com/why-we-still-dont-have-electric-planes/
Last updated: 2020-04-09T20:44:51+00:00

As air travel becomes more harmful to the environment, companies are betting on battery power as a cleaner alternative to jet fuel. Prototypes of electric aircraft have been taking off around the globe, paving the way for a future of cheaper flights, quieter airports, and emissions-free air travel.

## How Will Bitcoin Handle Economic Halts and Stimulus Needs?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-will-bitcoin-handle-economic-halts-and-stimulus-needs/
Last updated: 2020-04-09T20:08:46+00:00

I first posted about Bitcoin in 2013 calling it to be the future of the web economy. While I always believed in it, I never really had enough funds to buy any meaningful amount of Bitcoin. I do not own any but I certainly see the potential. Perhaps the potential of Bitcoin is so high due to the current financial system being so low and uncertain. The main culprit is the government’s ability to just print money out of thin air. Creating inflation and decreasing the purchasing power of the dollar. The same is true for all current fiat currencies.

## Why coronavirus scammers can send fake emails from the WHO
URL: https://hight3ch.com/why-coronavirus-scammers-can-send-fake-emails-from-the-who/
Last updated: 2020-04-06T16:37:01+00:00

Organizations could prevent domain spoofing, but many don’t.

## Einstein Might Have Been Wrong About Gravity… Here’s Why
URL: https://hight3ch.com/einstein-might-have-been-wrong-about-gravity-heres-why/
Last updated: 2020-03-30T18:27:19+00:00

The universe is expanding, and fast. And this new theory could explain why.

## NASA’s Gold Box Will Make Oxygen on Mars
URL: https://hight3ch.com/nasas-gold-box-will-make-oxygen-on-mars/
Last updated: 2020-03-29T21:04:00+00:00

NASA’s next rover mission has a special device aboard that’ll do something revolutionary: make oxygen on Mars for the first time.

## Potential treatments for COVID-19 – Coronavirus
URL: https://hight3ch.com/potential-treatments-for-covid-19-coronavirus/
Last updated: 2020-03-23T23:51:29+00:00

LAST UPDATED ON : March 23rd 2020. It’s still too early to be sure of anything but we must admire the attempts certain medical experts are making in slowing down and treating this virus. It seems that the patients are dying due to the inflammation of the lungs and not directly because of the virus. This seems to be important as the first treatments are focusing on inflammation, directly or indirectly. The first attempt comes from China where Dr. Richard Chang from Shanghai has used Vitamin C on a small sample of patients. He has seen an improvement with his

## Pascal’s Blaising Barrel – Exploding Glass Barrel with Water Pressure
URL: https://hight3ch.com/pascals-blaising-barrel-exploding-glass-barrel-with-water-pressure/
Last updated: 2020-03-22T22:23:17+00:00

How can the water pressure created by 1 liter of water burst a 50-liter glass barrel?

## The Uncensored Library
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-uncensored-library/
Last updated: 2020-03-13T20:52:24+00:00

Reporters Without Borders is launching a library in Minecraft to make articles censored by dictatorships accessible.

## Body Bouncer – Bouncy Sex Toy – NSFW
URL: https://hight3ch.com/body-bouncer-bouncy-sex-toy-nsfw/
Last updated: 2020-03-08T18:26:02+00:00

There is one thing I never blog about on hight3ch and its sex toys but this one is a little funny so I couldn’t resist. So here it is, the Body Bouncer lets you enjoy positions like a professional bunny. Especially if you are physically challenged and unable to bounce by yourself. Get creative and bounce! VIDEO->

## The Octo-Bouncer
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-octo-bouncer/
Last updated: 2020-03-08T18:23:28+00:00

This robot toy has very little to do with the body bouncer but it is just a matter of time before someone tries to combine the two. Don’t ask me how, it will happen.

## Parallel Worlds Probably Exist. Here’s Why
URL: https://hight3ch.com/parallel-worlds-probably-exist-heres-why/
Last updated: 2020-03-07T19:28:30+00:00

Interesting approach to the Schrodinger’s equation. I learned quantum mechanics the traditional ‘Copenhagen Interpretation’ way. We can use the Schrödinger equation to solve for and evolve wave functions. Then we invoke wave-particle duality, in essence things we detect as particles can behave as waves when they aren’t interacting with anything. But when there is a measurement, the wave function collapses leaving us with a definite particle detection. If we repeat the experiment many times, we find the statistics of these results mirror the amplitude of the wave function squared. Hence the Born rule came into being, saying the wave function

## AI agents playing hide and seek
URL: https://hight3ch.com/ai-agents-playing-hide-and-seek/
Last updated: 2020-03-07T05:27:01+00:00

AI Plays Hide and Seek (2019) – “Very short doc under 5 mins about AI agents playing hide and seek in a virtual world, continuously learning, adapting and improving.”

## The universe’s biggest gear reduction!
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-universes-biggest-gear-reduction/
Last updated: 2020-03-05T19:59:40+00:00

The universe’s biggest gear reduction! In order to get the last gear to turn once you’ll need more energy than the entire known universe has to do that. If you are familiar with gear reduction you can appreciate this. And you might even feel frustrated at watching it turn knowing that you will never see the last one turn, ever. Very frustrating.

## How Crash Bandicoot Hacked The Original Playstation
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-crash-bandicoot-hacked-the-original-playstation/
Last updated: 2020-03-01T16:25:25+00:00

For today’s episode of War Stories, Ars Technica sat down with Naughty Dog Co-founder Andy Gavin to talk about the hurdles in bringing the original Crash Bandicoot to gamers around the world. When Andy and his partner Jason Rubin made the decision to bring the action platforming genre.

## Strange Surreal Moving Structures
URL: https://hight3ch.com/strange-surreal-moving-structures/
Last updated: 2020-03-01T00:15:21+00:00

It’s not a new video but it never gets old seeing these strange sculptures.

## Negative Ion Products Are Actually Radioactive
URL: https://hight3ch.com/negative-ion-products-are-actually-radioactive/
Last updated: 2020-02-19T02:14:58+00:00

Ads for negative ion products seem to be all over the place these days and they are all the rage with the “wellness” crowd. With wild claims of vague or impossible health benefits, most people chalk it up to just being a scam or just a harmless product designed to separate people from their money. But the reality is so much worse. Negative ions are a very real thing, but making them takes energy. So how do you make a piece of plastic bracelet keep producing negative ions forever? Well, you fill it with radioactive material. In this video we

## How Many Holes Does a Human Have?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-many-holes-does-a-human-have/
Last updated: 2020-02-18T01:51:03+00:00

VSauce is back with his videos that cannot have a description.

## This Chinese Factory Makes $100,000 Architectural Models!
URL: https://hight3ch.com/this-chinese-factory-makes-100000-architectural-models/
Last updated: 2020-02-16T06:13:07+00:00

RJ Models, one of the top architectural model making factories in China. And it’s amazing! It’s a blend of high tech computerized tools like laser cutters, CNC mills, and high end 3d printers alongside old fashioned meticulous hand model making by skilled craftsmen. And the scale is unbelievable – 500 employees!

## Microsoft’s storing data in glass, a plan to store data for 10,000 years
URL: https://hight3ch.com/microsofts-storing-data-in-glass-a-plan-to-store-data-for-10000-years/
Last updated: 2020-02-13T04:14:08+00:00

Microsoft’s Project Silica aims to show that glass is the future of long-term data storage. To prove its usefulness outside the lab, Microsoft partnered with Warner Bros. to write the 1978 Superman film into glass with lasers. To see the whole process and the Superman glass, we visited Microsoft’s Research Lab in Cambridge, England and Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California.

## Timeline of the Next 80 Years – Global Warming
URL: https://hight3ch.com/timeline-of-the-next-80-years-global-warming/
Last updated: 2020-02-08T19:31:45+00:00

What does the future hold for humanity and our changing climate in the 21st century? Using projections from the IPCC Fifth Report and the climate science literature, we’ve put together a timelapse showing what may lie ahead. On the left hand side of the screen you’ll see an “optimistic” view, where although we continue to emit carbon dioxide at significant levels, investments in clean energy and mitigation try to curb the damage. On the right hand side, you’ll see a future where humanity emits as much as we please and very little mitigation takes place. The data presented in this

## SpaceX Crew Dragon Launch Escape Demonstration
URL: https://hight3ch.com/spacex-crew-dragon-launch-escape-demonstration/
Last updated: 2020-01-20T03:51:19+00:00

SpaceX is targeting Sunday, January 19 for an in-flight test of Crew Dragon’s launch escape capabilities from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This test, which does not have NASA astronauts onboard the spacecraft, is intended to demonstrate Crew Dragon’s ability to reliably carry crew to safety in the unlikely event of an emergency on ascent.

## Why Australia’s fires are linked to floods in Africa
URL: https://hight3ch.com/why-australias-fires-are-linked-to-floods-in-africa/
Last updated: 2020-01-18T20:38:03+00:00

Australia’s recent fire season has been hellish with no end in sight. At least 17.9 million acres have burned, 28 people have died, and an estimated 1 billion animals have been lost. But while Australia burns, East Africa has been grappling with record-breaking rainfall leading to catastrophic floods. Both have a common cause — and it lies in the Indian Ocean.

## Carbon Dioxide Is Not the Worst Greenhouse Gas, Meet SF6
URL: https://hight3ch.com/carbon-dioxide-is-not-the-worst-greenhouse-gas-meet-sf6/
Last updated: 2020-01-17T20:28:57+00:00

Could a switch to renewable sources like wind and solar power actually emit more of the most potent greenhouse gas there is?

## A New Force of Nature Has Been Discovered!
URL: https://hight3ch.com/a-new-force-of-nature-has-been-discovered/
Last updated: 2020-01-17T20:25:57+00:00

A new discovery suggesting there might be another fundamental force in the universe – the so called Fifth Force.

## Why Scientists & Artists Want the World’s Blackest Substances
URL: https://hight3ch.com/why-scientists-artists-want-the-worlds-blackest-substances/
Last updated: 2020-01-17T20:21:47+00:00

Artists and scientists are searching for ever more light-absorbing materials. To find out what’s behind the quest for ultra-blacks, WIRED’s Arielle Pardes talked with artist Stuart Semple and physicist John Lehman about these amazing materials.

## The problems with rebuilding beaches
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-problems-with-rebuilding-beaches/
Last updated: 2020-01-13T04:10:55+00:00

Beach nourishment is the latest chapter in a never-ending tale of erosion.

## These RC Cars Racing Is Awesome to Watch
URL: https://hight3ch.com/these-rc-cars-racing-is-awesome-to-watch/
Last updated: 2020-01-02T00:48:45+00:00

The acceleration on these little things is pretty impressive.

## World’s Longest Home Run (The “Mad Batter” Machine)
URL: https://hight3ch.com/worlds-longest-home-run-the-mad-batter-machine/
Last updated: 2020-01-01T20:34:39+00:00

Smarter Every Day made this mad batter machine and sending balls 250 mph.

## Porch Pirate vs. Glitter Bomb Trap 2.0
URL: https://hight3ch.com/porch-pirate-vs-glitter-bomb-trap-2-0/
Last updated: 2019-12-15T23:10:02+00:00

Porch Pirate vs. Glitter Bomb Trap 2.0

## How Machine Learning Drives the Deceptive World of Deepfakes
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-machine-learning-drives-the-deceptive-world-of-deepfakes/
Last updated: 2019-12-15T17:31:49+00:00

Deepfakes are spreading fast, and while some have playful intentions, others can cause serious harm. We stepped inside this deceptive new world to see what experts are doing to catch this altered content. »

## Why Kolinsky Sable Brushes Are So Expensive
URL: https://hight3ch.com/why-kolinsky-sable-brushes-are-so-expensive/
Last updated: 2019-12-15T17:30:59+00:00

Originally created on the request of Queen Victoria, the series 7 brushes were first made in 1866, and were designed to be the finest possible brush for watercolour painting. Making a series 7 kolinsky sable watercolour brush isn’t easy. The largest size brush can take almost a week and a half to make.

## The Walking Bicycle
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-walking-bicycle/
Last updated: 2019-12-14T16:21:05+00:00

The symbiosis of bicycle and walking robotic creature.

## This Quantum Lab Makes Exotic States of Matter in Space
URL: https://hight3ch.com/this-quantum-lab-makes-exotic-states-of-matter-in-space/
Last updated: 2019-12-08T18:04:49+00:00

Atomic physicists at NASA are working to create an exotic state of matter…in space. And it turns out, the International Space Station is the perfect home base for these experiments.

## Can Underwater Turbines Solve Our Energy Problems?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/can-underwater-turbines-solve-our-energy-problems/
Last updated: 2019-12-08T18:03:31+00:00

We could be solving our energy problems with underwater turbines.

## Facial Recognition – Why it is Bad and Why You’re already a Suspect
URL: https://hight3ch.com/facial-recognition-why-it-is-bad-and-why-youre-already-a-suspect/
Last updated: 2019-12-08T18:01:48+00:00

Face-recognition technology is the new norm. You may think, “I’ve got nothing to hide,” but we all should be concerned.

## Visualization of how “slow” the speed of light actually is
URL: https://hight3ch.com/visualization-of-how-slow-the-speed-of-light-actually-is/
Last updated: 2019-11-19T00:59:55+00:00

Well…if you put it that way…

## 1,000km Cable to the Stars – The Skyhook
URL: https://hight3ch.com/1000km-cable-to-the-stars-the-skyhook/
Last updated: 2019-11-17T16:08:00+00:00

Getting to space is incredibly hard, expensive and needs a lot of resources. A more efficient way to get there is a Skyhook (or Spacetether), an ever rotating cable with a counter weight, that catapults spaceships from earth orbit into the depths of space.

## Inside a $5.5M Floating Mansion in Miami
URL: https://hight3ch.com/inside-a-5-5m-floating-mansion-in-miami/
Last updated: 2019-11-10T20:59:07+00:00

Today we take you to glamorous South Beach in Miami, Florida to tour a truly one-of-a-kind offering. At 400 Alton Road sits the Arkup, a $5.5 million yacht house powered entirely by solar energy. The floating villa has 4 bedrooms and 4.5 bathrooms, an extendable deck for entertaining large groups, and a full kitchen – all with the freedom and functionality of a yacht. Feel like a quick trip to the Caribbean? Take your house with you. Some rough waters in the forecast? Elevate the entire yacht with the custom hydraulic system. If you’ve pondered what the evolution of luxury

## Air Force researching solar energy system in space
URL: https://hight3ch.com/air-force-researching-solar-energy-system-in-space/
Last updated: 2019-11-09T16:26:53+00:00

The U.S. Air Force wants a space system to generate solar energy and then beams it to forward operating bases.

## The Extreme Physics Pushing Moore’s Law to the Next Level
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-extreme-physics-pushing-moores-law-to-the-next-level/
Last updated: 2019-10-27T16:30:03+00:00

An integrated circuit, or chip, is one of the biggest innovations of the 20th century. The microchip launched a technological revolution, created Silicon Valley, and everyone’s got one in their pocket (read: smartphones). When you zoom in on one of these chips, you find a highly complex, nanoscale-sized city that’s expertly designed to send information back and forth. And chip manufacturers continue to shrink the size of microchips, hitting smaller and smaller milestones while also increasing the number of features a chip has. The result is an improved overall processing power. This is what’s been driving the semiconductor industry—a drumbeat

## Why The Vertical Takeoff Airliner Failed: The Rotodyne Story
URL: https://hight3ch.com/why-the-vertical-takeoff-airliner-failed-the-rotodyne-story/
Last updated: 2019-10-25T03:39:20+00:00

In the late 1950’s, intercity air travel was on the rise. But while a trip from New York to Boston by airplane might only take about an hour, you’d still need to get to and from the airport. And in many congested cities, that was already taking longer than the flight itself. As a solution, helicopter airlines had begun to crop up in major cities, letting passengers skip over traffic to connect airports with their city centers. But helicopters were ultimately too inefficient to become a viable form of mass transport. The Rotodyne was going to change all that. Taking

## Demonstrating Quantum Supremacy
URL: https://hight3ch.com/demonstrating-quantum-supremacy/
Last updated: 2019-10-23T23:24:49+00:00

We’re marking a major milestone in quantum computing research that opens up new possibilities for this technology. Learn how the Google AI Quantum team demonstrated how a quantum computer can perform a task no classical computer can in an experiment called “quantum supremacy.”

## Canadian Company Has Created An Incredible Invisibility Shield
URL: https://hight3ch.com/canadian-company-has-created-an-incredible-invisibility-shield/
Last updated: 2019-10-18T03:22:12+00:00

The latest invisible tech, called Quantum Stealth, has been developed by Hyperstealth, a Canadian camouflage design company. The material is as thin as paper, inexpensive, and requires no power source. While it doesn’t work quite as well as a magical cloak, it does a pretty good job of concealing and is certainly confusing to look at. The material uses an approach that you might already be familiar with: lenticular lenses. If you have seen one of those pictures that appears 3D depending on how you look at it, you have seen this tech.

## Inside the Controversial Experiment to Geoengineer the Atmosphere
URL: https://hight3ch.com/inside-the-controversial-experiment-to-geoengineering-the-atmosphere/
Last updated: 2019-10-13T19:44:29+00:00

This lab is planning to test the world’s first solar geoengineering experiment in the field. Here’s why that’s so controversial.

## How Cruise Ships Are Destroying The World
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-cruise-ships-are-destroying-the-world/
Last updated: 2019-10-13T15:08:35+00:00

We don’t need cruise ships. They are boring and polluting the world like no other machine contributing to climate change. Much worse than cars and much worse than planes. Cruise ships seem to have been forgotten by the environmental activists but cruise ships should be their first target. We need to stop cruise ships. Please share and help at least someone become aware of this problem. If you manage to stop one person from buying a ticket to one of these ships, you have accomplished something. There are solutions to perhaps help with global warming as seen in the post

## How Close Are We to Harnessing Synthetic Life?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-close-are-we-to-harnessing-synthetic-life/
Last updated: 2019-10-10T00:10:04+00:00

Scientists are exploring how to edit genomes and even create brand new ones that never existed before, but how close are we to harnessing synthetic life?

## Could Ultracapacitors Realize Their Full Potential?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/could-ultracapacitors-realize-their-full-potential/
Last updated: 2019-10-08T03:25:58+00:00

The drawbacks of ultracapacitors means we’ll be stuck with batteries for a while. However, experiments with a new class of materials that are related to soap and laxatives (yes, laxatives) could change that. »

## Technology Helping Driverless Cars: Remote Control
URL: https://hight3ch.com/technology-helping-driverless-cars-remote-control/
Last updated: 2019-10-07T03:13:13+00:00

Even the best driverless cars today have problems with tough driving conditions like recognizing uneven terrain or navigating difficult weather. One startup is developing technology to serve as a missing link: controlling the car by remote control. Phantom Auto is hoping its technology could help autonomous cars reach market later this year.

## Did They Find The Magic Frequency?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/did-they-find-the-magic-frequency/
Last updated: 2019-10-07T02:52:24+00:00

Nikola Tesla Was Right! “We’ve Found The Magic Frequency”. That’s if you wish to be optimistic and believe that a frequency can solve a lot of our health issues. Who knows, perhaps they are really on the edge of a new medical era.

## Light-powered RFID tags could soon power IoT devices
URL: https://hight3ch.com/light-powered-rfid-tags-could-soon-power-iot-devices/
Last updated: 2019-10-06T16:48:26+00:00

Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology have published a study detailing the use of photovoltaic powered sensors on radio-frequency identification, or RFID tags, to power internet of things devices.

## Japanese Sumo Robots Duels
URL: https://hight3ch.com/japanese-sumo-robots-duels/
Last updated: 2019-09-28T23:08:06+00:00

Japanese Sumo Robots carefully edited takes from several years of footage.

## Real news is extremely dangerous to their monopolies
URL: https://hight3ch.com/real-news-is-extremely-dangerous-to-their-monopolies/
Last updated: 2019-09-27T03:19:11+00:00

Information is power. Information change beliefs and beliefs control actions. What information have you been lied to about to support corporate profit?

## The Tank Silencer
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-tank-silencer/
Last updated: 2019-09-22T01:34:01+00:00

Real or fake? Dark Photos from Dark5 explores the infamous “Tank Silencer.” These photos are from an artillery range in Meppen, officially known as WTD 91, or Wehr Technische Dienststelle 91, located in the Lower Saxony region of Germany. They show a massive, mounted piece of armament that’s camouflaged and clearly military issue. Is it some type of cannon? Is it something to do with radar? Might it be a decoy that attracts enemy fire away from legitimate military targets? It turns out that the machine in the photo is what the Germans refer to as a “Schalldämpfer,” or a

## Turning toxic – The Bayer-Monsanto merger – Documentary
URL: https://hight3ch.com/turning-toxic-the-bayer-monsanto-merger-documentary/
Last updated: 2019-09-16T03:21:14+00:00

A year after Germany’s Bayer Group took over Monsanto, and it’s struggling to deal with the US seed giant’s controversial reputation. Now Bayer is also liable for Monsanto’s legal bills – which are starting to mount alarmingly. Roundup, a herbicide containing glyphosate sold worldwide by Monsanto has long been suspected of causing cancer. A California court has just awarded more than $2 billion in damages to a couple who had claimed that their use of the pesticide caused them to develop non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma . Bayer’s share price halved last year, and the consequences are already making themselves felt in the

## How Close Are We to Immortality?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-close-are-we-to-immortality/
Last updated: 2019-09-16T02:57:09+00:00

Researchers are working to get to the bottom of longevity, unlocking the secrets to extending our lifespans well into our 100s… and beyond.

## Tiny meteorites are everywhere
URL: https://hight3ch.com/tiny-meteorites-are-everywhere/
Last updated: 2019-09-14T02:00:23+00:00

Tons of tiny meteorites fall to Earth every day, but are next to impossible to find once they land. At least, that’s what the science community thought. In this pilot episode of our “Trial & Error” experiment series, we go on a hunt for micrometeorites with the help of the amateur scientist who showed the world that they truly could be found.

## Why It’s Almost Impossible to Kick a 90-Yard Field Goal
URL: https://hight3ch.com/why-its-almost-impossible-to-kick-a-90-yard-field-goal/
Last updated: 2019-09-14T01:57:59+00:00

The world record for an NFL field goal is 64 yards, but place kickers have sent the ball far further in practice. Is a 90-yard kick possible? To find out, WIRED’s Robbie Gonzalez explores the physics of long kicks and gets a lesson from pro kicker Harrison Butker.

## 10 Strangest Things Found Underwater
URL: https://hight3ch.com/10-strangest-things-found-underwater/
Last updated: 2019-09-14T01:52:37+00:00

Some of the most mysterious and amazing discoveries underwater.

## Nauti-Craft Marine Suspension Technology
URL: https://hight3ch.com/nauti-craft-marine-suspension-technology/
Last updated: 2019-09-14T01:48:39+00:00

Nauti-Craft Pty Ltd is a small research and development company focused on the design and development of the Nauti-Craft marine suspension system.

## 30,000-ton bus terminal moved horizontally in China
URL: https://hight3ch.com/30000-ton-bus-terminal-moved-horizontally-in-china/
Last updated: 2019-09-06T20:33:49+00:00

A new Guinness World Record! A 30,000-ton bus terminal was rotated 90 degrees horizontally in Xiamen, China. The weight is equivalent to roughly 170 Boeing 747s.

## The Super Zoom – CG animation to macro view to the quantum level
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-super-zoom-cg-animation-to-macro-view-to-the-quantum-level/
Last updated: 2019-08-31T02:39:24+00:00

CG animation of amazing zoom to macro view to the “quantum world”, shown on an approximate scale of the reality of physics..

## This Reaction Could Let Us Live on Mars
URL: https://hight3ch.com/this-reaction-could-let-us-live-on-mars/
Last updated: 2019-08-26T03:28:23+00:00

There is a chemical reaction discovered a century ago that could be the key to creating everything from fuel to shelter on Mars!

## The World’s First MRI of a SINGLE Atom Is Here
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-worlds-first-mri-of-a-single-atom-is-here/
Last updated: 2019-08-23T12:49:13+00:00

Magnetic resonance imaging is nothing new, but scientists were able to perform an MRI on a single atom. But how?

## Magnetic coils could purge microplastics from the ocean
URL: https://hight3ch.com/magnetic-coils-could-purge-microplastics-from-the-ocean/
Last updated: 2019-08-17T15:34:07+00:00

A university of Adelaide-led research team has created a carbon nanotube that could help fight microplastic pollution in our oceans.

## The World’s Tallest Water Slide Was a Terrible, Tragic Idea
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-worlds-tallest-water-slide-was-a-terrible-tragic-idea/
Last updated: 2019-08-14T03:01:38+00:00

At nearly 169 feet tall, Verrückt—which means “insane” in German—was taller than Niagara Falls. Riders flew down the world’s tallest water slide at 70 miles per hour, challenging the laws of physics. The attraction was the pride and joy of Schlitterbahn Water Park in Kansas City. Then, on August 7, 2016, Verrückt came to a swift end when 10-year-old Caleb Schwab was decapitated on the ride. What went wrong to cause such a horrific tragedy?

## Next Level Cinematography Tech
URL: https://hight3ch.com/next-level-cinematography-tech/
Last updated: 2019-08-03T16:22:43+00:00

Unreal Engine that showcases the future of virtual production.

## What is Neuralink – Neural Lace Explained
URL: https://hight3ch.com/what-is-neuralink-neural-lace-explained/
Last updated: 2019-07-19T15:12:47+00:00

Elon Musk’s new project Neuralink has been making headlines recently, but very little is known about this mysterious company so far. We’re going to answer the question ‘What is Neuralink?’ and let you know why you should be paying very close attention.

## The Mars Homes That NASA Awarded $500k
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-mars-homes-that-nasa-awarded-500k/
Last updated: 2019-07-07T12:49:25+00:00

AI SpaceFactory’s “MARSHA” Mars Habitat just won NASA’s 3-D Printed Habitat Challenge. Compared to others, their design looks downright luxurious. It has multiple floors, spacious living quarters, and plenty of windows to gaze upon the Martian horizon.

## Aerogel and how it reacts with water
URL: https://hight3ch.com/aerogel-and-how-it-reacts-with-water/
Last updated: 2019-06-30T16:30:53+00:00

Aerogel has extraordinary properties but it can be tough to work with. This video looks at modifying aerogels to take advantage of their unique characteristics.

## Carbon Capture Plant Does The Work Of 40 Million Trees
URL: https://hight3ch.com/carbon-capture-plant-does-the-work-of-40-million-trees/
Last updated: 2019-06-24T21:54:42+00:00

In Squamish, British Columbia, there’s a company that wants to stop climate change by sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. They are called Carbon Engineering. Checkout also the TOP 10 Global Warming Solutions. There really is hope. But hopefully not too little too late. And also check out all of our posts on Climate Change.

## Plastic From Cactus That Is Biodegradable And Safe To Ingest
URL: https://hight3ch.com/plastic-from-cactus-that-is-biodegradable-and-safe-to-ingest/
Last updated: 2019-06-16T15:08:39+00:00

How to make biodegradable ‘plastic’ from cactus juice? This Mexican researcher has discovered a way to turn cactus leaves into a material with similar properties to plastic. She says it’s not toxic and is biodegradable.

## Robot Farmer Will Be Able To Work 20 Hours a Day
URL: https://hight3ch.com/robot-farmer-will-be-able-to-work-20-hours-a-day/
Last updated: 2019-06-09T15:53:18+00:00

Fieldwork Robotics, a University of Plymouth spin-out company, is developing an autonomous harvesting robot platform. A number of flexible robot arms attached to the platform will be able to pick raspberries, tomatoes, and other crops without squeezing them out or destroying the plant.

## How Hyperboloids Work
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-hyperboloids-work/
Last updated: 2019-06-06T20:50:40+00:00

Vsauce shows us how hyperboloids work.

## Mechanical version of Pong
URL: https://hight3ch.com/mechanical-version-of-pong/
Last updated: 2019-05-31T15:47:17+00:00

I have never seen a mechanical pong but I want one!

## Desalinating water in a greener and more economical way
URL: https://hight3ch.com/desalinating-water-in-a-greener-and-more-economical-way/
Last updated: 2019-05-31T15:41:33+00:00

Researchers at EPFL have developed a machine that turns seawater into drinking water in a more environmentally friendly and economical way than existing systems. A spin-off, Aqualife Global, has now been set up to develop and commercialize the technology.

## How NASA Mission Designers Invent Futuristic Spacecraft
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-nasa-mission-designers-invent-futuristic-spacecraft/
Last updated: 2019-05-28T00:38:41+00:00

From journeying to distant worlds to catching asteroids, this NASA conceptual design team turns the spacecraft of your dreams into reality.

## Similar to fireworks, but a lot cooler
URL: https://hight3ch.com/similar-to-fireworks-but-a-lot-cooler/
Last updated: 2019-05-10T16:50:23+00:00

Fireworks are so old news, here comes Intel’s world record illumination using drones.

## Accidental Discovery Rebuilds Coral Reefs x40 faster
URL: https://hight3ch.com/accidental-discovery-rebuilds-coral-reefs-x40-faster/
Last updated: 2019-05-10T16:47:52+00:00

David Vaughan works on the Florida Reef Tract, the third largest coral reef in the world and a vastly important ecosystem for sustaining underwater life. He and a team of scientists are working to combat the crisis in the world’s coral reefs—that is, that human beings have lost 25 to 40 percent of the world’s corals in recent decades due largely to seawater temperature rise and continued acidification of the ocean. Vaughan has developed a technique called “microfragmenting” that allows corals to grow more than 25 times faster than normal, which could rapidly restore the dwindling population of healthy coral

## How Blue LEDs Changed the World
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-blue-leds-changed-the-world/
Last updated: 2019-05-01T15:30:57+00:00

Not only are small, energy efficient LEDs used in almost every piece of modern electronics, they have the greatest potential impact on energy savings globally. But LEDs didn’t have much use until the ’90s, when Japanese scientists discovered the missing link needed to complete the color spectrum: The blue LED.

## How are Underwater Structures Built?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-are-underwater-structures-built/
Last updated: 2019-04-23T16:43:32+00:00

Oceans, rivers, and lakes are often beautiful, but they’re not necessarily convenient places to build things. Yet, many types of the infrastructure we depend on every day, including wharves, bridges, and dams, are founded below the water. How do they do it? On today’s episode, we’re talking about different types of underwater construction, including cofferdams, diversions, caissons, and drilled shafts. Whether the construction site is on the bottom of a lake or river, or simply located in the floodplain and only at risk during extreme weather, engineers and construction contractors put a significant amount of thought and consideration into the

## America’s Insane Plan for Nuclear Powered Planes
URL: https://hight3ch.com/americas-insane-plan-for-nuclear-powered-planes/
Last updated: 2019-04-22T14:46:29+00:00

It seems crazy today to think of nuclear planes but a few years ago it seemed like a great idea.

## Why Do Women’s Hips Sway When They Walk?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/why-do-womens-hips-sway-when-they-walk/
Last updated: 2019-04-18T23:57:48+00:00

If you didn’t know….now you know!

## Dress with adjustable transparency
URL: https://hight3ch.com/dress-with-adjustable-transparency/
Last updated: 2019-04-16T15:27:40+00:00

Dress with adjustable transparency presented in China

## Concept Video Showcasing The Future Of Mars Habitation
URL: https://hight3ch.com/concept-video-showcasing-the-future-of-mars-habitation/
Last updated: 2019-04-14T16:50:41+00:00

The HASSELL design for a Mars Habitat has reached the final 10 of NASA’s 3D Printing Centennial Challenge. This NASA competition sought perspectives from outside the traditional aerospace industry, to explore how a human habitat could be designed and delivered on Mars using autonomous 3D printing technologies. HASSELL partnered with Eckersley O’Callaghan to design the external shell which could be constructed entirely by autonomous robots using Mars’ natural regolith.

## The world’s largest plane Stratolaunch flew for the first time
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-worlds-largest-plane-stratolaunch-flew-for-the-first-time/
Last updated: 2019-04-14T16:17:35+00:00

Stratolaunch, the largest plane ever built, took its first flight Saturday out of California’s Mojave Air & Space Port, spokesperson Andrea Courtney confirmed in a statement.

## What a fire backdraft is, and why it can be dangerous
URL: https://hight3ch.com/what-a-fire-backdraft-is-and-why-it-can-be-dangerous/
Last updated: 2019-04-04T01:12:15+00:00

TIL what a fire backdraft is, and why it can be dangerous. Filmed in slow-motion.

## Unreal Engine 4 – Photorealistic Graphics
URL: https://hight3ch.com/unreal-engine-4-photorealistic-graphics/
Last updated: 2019-04-03T01:32:08+00:00

It’s really scary how far computer generate graphics have reached. How will we ever know what’s real and what’s fake?

## The Artificial Gravity Lab
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-artificial-gravity-lab/
Last updated: 2019-04-03T00:37:03+00:00

In the Ashton Graybiel Spatial Orientation Laboratory at Brandeis University, there’s the Artificial Gravity Facility: otherwise known as the rotating room. No-one’s invented futuristic gravity plating yet, but if you want to test how humans would cope with artificial gravity, this is the best way.

## The World’s Greatest Money Counterfeiter
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-worlds-greatest-money-counterfeiter/
Last updated: 2019-04-03T00:36:04+00:00

The self-declared “world’s greatest counterfeiter,” Frank Bourassa, printed $250 million in fake US currency until he was caught by an undercover cop in 2012. And yet he hardly served any jail time. In this episode, Bourassa reveals his process, and the aftermath of his arrest.

## Incredible Rolling Objects which aren’t Spheres!
URL: https://hight3ch.com/incredible-rolling-objects-which-arent-spheres/
Last updated: 2019-03-30T15:44:34+00:00

These weird things can roll !

## How Close Are We to Finding Dark Matter?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-close-are-we-to-finding-dark-matter/
Last updated: 2019-03-28T20:59:30+00:00

For decades, scientists have been working to find the missing part of our universe known as dark matter. So, how close are we to finding it?

## Could Black Holes Made Of Light Power Our Spaceships?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/could-black-holes-made-of-light-power-our-spaceships/
Last updated: 2019-03-24T21:38:06+00:00

What exactly would it take to create our very own Swartzchild Kugelblitz?

## Learn Why People Were Getting Sick Near This Crater
URL: https://hight3ch.com/learn-why-people-were-getting-sick-near-this-crater/
Last updated: 2019-03-24T21:37:19+00:00

The residents of a remote South American town are awakened by a screaming sound from the sky and a huge explosion. Satellite images reveal a crater has appeared nearby. When people near the mystery crater start to fall sick, the authorities investigate.

## How Your Invisible Exposome Cloud Could Be Messing With Your Health
URL: https://hight3ch.com/watch-how-your-invisible-exposome-cloud-could-be-messing-with-your-health/
Last updated: 2019-03-24T21:36:18+00:00

Microscopic bits can hitch a ride on your clothes, find their way into your body, and impact your personal health. They’re part of your exposome—and everyone has one.

## Timelapse: A Journey to the End of Time
URL: https://hight3ch.com/timelapse-a-journey-to-the-end-of-time/
Last updated: 2019-03-24T16:51:59+00:00

We start in 2019 and travel exponentially through time, witnessing the future of Earth, the death of the sun, the end of all stars, proton decay, zombie galaxies, possible future civilizations, exploding black holes, the effects of dark energy, alternate universes, the final fate of the cosmos – to name a few. This is a picture of the future as painted by modern science – a picture that will surely evolve over time as we dig for more clues to how our story will unfold. Much of the science is very recent – and new puzzle pieces are still waiting

## Carbon Capture – Humanity’s Last Hope?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/carbon-capture-humanitys-last-hope/
Last updated: 2019-03-23T03:35:22+00:00

Carbon Capture – Humanity’s Last Hope?

## Why We Want a Perpetual Motion Machine, But Still Can’t Get It
URL: https://hight3ch.com/why-we-want-a-perpetual-motion-machine-but-still-cant-get-it/
Last updated: 2019-03-21T19:18:41+00:00

A machine that can run for eternity is exactly what we need…if only it could exist. A perpetual motion machine is impossible, here’s why.

## Diamond Nuclear Batteries Are Forever… Sort Of
URL: https://hight3ch.com/diamond-nuclear-batteries-are-forever-sort-of/
Last updated: 2019-03-20T04:04:05+00:00

Batteries that run on BETA DECAY?! How exactly does a nuclear diamond battery work and why would we even want one?

## Why Machines That Bend Are Better
URL: https://hight3ch.com/why-machines-that-bend-are-better/
Last updated: 2019-03-20T01:24:13+00:00

Compliant mechanisms have lots of advantages over traditional devices. SimpliSafe is awesome security. It’s really effective, easy to use, and the price is great.

## Anticancer Vegetables
URL: https://hight3ch.com/anticancer-vegetables/
Last updated: 2019-03-17T02:06:47+00:00

There are two superfood classes of vegetables most adept at blocking human cancer cell growth in a petri dish.

## The design tricks that keep skyscrapers from swaying
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-design-tricks-that-keep-skyscrapers-from-swaying/
Last updated: 2019-03-16T00:04:46+00:00

Skyscrapers are getting skinnier: As cities get denser, architects are designing builders that are taller and taller on smaller and smaller lots. And that poses one big problem: How do you keep them from swaying in the wind? Behind some of the most iconic shapes on our skylines is a secret design language of architectural tricks —twists, holes, and setbacks— that keep buildings still.

## The golf ball that made golfers too good
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-golf-ball-that-made-golfers-too-good/
Last updated: 2019-03-16T00:02:02+00:00

These days, pro golfers are hitting the ball far. Really far. And it’s creating a problem: because modern golfers can reach the hole with fewer shots than before, older courses — like Augusta National Golf Club, Oakmont Country Club, and others — are becoming obsolete. Now, professional organizations, like the United States Golf Association, are struggling to find a solution for big powerful golfers like Dustin Johnson, Bubba Watson, and Tiger Woods. While the jump in distance is due to lots of factors, conversation is centering on the controversial possibility of redesigning the golf ball to reduce distance. It’d be

## Inside Ikea’s Secret Future Lab
URL: https://hight3ch.com/inside-ikeas-secret-future-lab/
Last updated: 2019-03-14T04:56:49+00:00

This is Ikea’s future lab, Space10. It’s a space in downtown Copenhagen where researchers are creating a sustainable future by changing the way we live, work, and eat.

## World Wide Web celebrates its 30th anniversary
URL: https://hight3ch.com/world-wide-web-celebrates-its-30th-anniversary/
Last updated: 2019-03-14T04:55:07+00:00

The inventor of the World Wide Web has called for more control over his creation. Tim Berners-Lee has spoken at the 30th anniversary of the web at CERN, the physics research centre outside Geneva, where he invented the web that changed humanity. Julia Lyubova has more. For more on the story, Mark Skilton joined us from Warwick in the UK. He is a professor of practice in Information Systems & Management at the Warwick Business School.

## What If All the Money in the World Is Gathered into One Place?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/what-if-all-the-money-in-the-world-is-gathered-into-one-place/
Last updated: 2019-03-14T04:47:18+00:00

Money takes a lot of space…

## A Personal Computer Could Grow Your Food in the Future
URL: https://hight3ch.com/a-personal-computer-could-grow-your-food-in-the-future/
Last updated: 2019-03-11T05:26:48+00:00

Want tastier food? Just follow the recipe. Brainchild of Caleb Harper at MIT Media Lab, this food computer is an open-source technology that lets you engineer a climate for custom crops.

## Driving with Saw Blade Wheels on Frozen Lake!
URL: https://hight3ch.com/driving-with-saw-blade-wheels-on-frozen-lake/
Last updated: 2019-03-11T01:06:44+00:00

These guys are doing what I always wanted to try!

## Making talking dog technology
URL: https://hight3ch.com/making-talking-dog-technology/
Last updated: 2019-03-06T18:20:30+00:00

Students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign develop a brain-computer interface to read and vocalize the thoughts of a Labrador retriever.

## Electric Hypercar: The most powerful production vehicle ever made
URL: https://hight3ch.com/electric-hypercar-the-most-powerful-production-vehicle-ever-made/
Last updated: 2019-03-06T06:04:03+00:00

For more than 90 years Pininfarina has designed some of the most beautiful cars in the world for the likes of Ferrari and Maserati. But now they’ve gone into the car making business themselves. And their first luxury car is the most powerful, road-legal production car ever made. And as Usmaan Lone reports, it doesn’t even have an engine.

## Why Cavemen Had Better Teeth Than You
URL: https://hight3ch.com/why-cavemen-had-better-teeth-than-you/
Last updated: 2019-03-03T05:49:15+00:00

Human mouths seem to require a lot of maintenance. Constant brushing, flossing, and the like are supposedly necessary to keep our teeth from decaying. So what did people do before modern dentistry? Today, we explore the fascinating reasons why our ancient ancestors often had lower rates of tooth decay than us. We briefly trace the history behind the human mouth’s fall from grace, and the ways people tried to get by with rotten teeth. We’ll then touch on George Washington’s horrible dentures and explain the value of fluoride.

## Why Scientists Used Graphene Nanoribbons to Engineer Bionic Mushrooms
URL: https://hight3ch.com/why-scientists-used-graphene-nanoribbons-to-engineer-bionic-mushrooms/
Last updated: 2019-03-03T05:43:08+00:00

This is the first time researchers have created an “engineered symbiosis” by combining bacteria with nanomaterials to produce the next generation of bionic architectures.

## Crushing a Car with the Domino Effect
URL: https://hight3ch.com/crushing-a-car-with-the-domino-effect/
Last updated: 2019-03-03T05:42:46+00:00

Cannan, Rachel, and Jesse investigate chain reactions and the most famous of them all: the domino effect. They create an experiment if each successive domino is larger than the previous one, can a chain reaction of toppling tiles end in a car-crushing catastrophe?

## One rotation of windmills powers a home for one day
URL: https://hight3ch.com/one-rotation-of-windmills-powers-a-home-for-one-day/
Last updated: 2019-03-01T20:47:13+00:00

In the quest to go green, Scotland is way ahead of the rest of the UK, with nearly all electricity produced by wind power.

## How Close Are We to Building a Moon Base?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-close-are-we-to-building-a-moon-base/
Last updated: 2019-02-28T17:53:57+00:00

For decades, humans have fantasized about living on the moon, but we haven’t sent anyone there since 1972. So, how close are we to a moon base?

## 22 Inventions That Are Helping The Earth
URL: https://hight3ch.com/22-inventions-that-are-helping-the-earth/
Last updated: 2019-02-27T20:56:25+00:00

From whirlpool turbines to edible cutlery, water blobs, and package-free shampoo and toothpaste. We’ve compiled a list of 22 inventions that could help us cut back on plastic, reduce garbage in the sea, and make the Earth a better place.

## Scientists Are Close To Eliminating Pain
URL: https://hight3ch.com/scientists-are-close-to-eliminating-pain/
Last updated: 2019-02-27T02:09:05+00:00

How we might experience the unpleasantness of pain might come down to these 150 neurons in mouse brains.

## How plastic from clothing gets into seafood
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-plastic-from-clothing-gets-into-seafood/
Last updated: 2019-02-26T04:33:48+00:00

Microfibers, used to make things like yoga pants, are the ocean’s tiniest problem.

## Are We Ready to Edit the Fetal Genome?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/are-we-ready-to-edit-the-fetal-genome/
Last updated: 2019-02-26T04:24:06+00:00

Gene therapy is really complicated both scientifically and ethically. But it also has the potential to do some amazing things – like treating life threatening diseases in babies before they are even born.

## China plans first solar power station in space
URL: https://hight3ch.com/china-plans-first-solar-power-station-in-space/
Last updated: 2019-02-24T00:40:30+00:00

China has ambitious plans to build the first ever solar power station in space.

## Scientists Trapped Electrons In a Quantum Fractal
URL: https://hight3ch.com/scientists-trapped-electrons-in-a-quantum-fractal/
Last updated: 2019-02-22T02:33:35+00:00

Fractals aren’t just crazy cool mathematically infinite shapes. They might just have the capacity to revolutionize modern electronics as we know it.

## ?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/questions/
Last updated: 2019-02-19T03:53:49+00:00

This site was created in January 2006, when YouTube was still in it’s infancy and sources for good fascinating tech and science videos were hard to find. The site had it’s glory days with viral posts that ended up on the front pages of Reddit and Digg. Today the site has decent traffic but runs on love, the love for the tech, science and awe. The posts are published daily but not as consistently as in it’s glory days. You can enjoy the archives of this site, as the posts date back to 2006, it can be a trip through

## Everything It Takes to Explore Beneath Polar Ice Caps
URL: https://hight3ch.com/everything-it-takes-to-explore-beneath-polar-ice-caps/
Last updated: 2019-02-19T01:26:21+00:00

The advanced age of Arctic and Antarctic exploration is here, and it’s still a risky mission. This team designs custom gliding robots to collect vital data from the depths beneath diminishing ice.

## Scientists Impaled Space Junk With a Harpoon
URL: https://hight3ch.com/scientists-impaled-space-junk-with-a-harpoon/
Last updated: 2019-02-18T01:48:32+00:00

Space junk threatens to entomb Earth in an artificial bubble, but promising solutions for cleaning up our trash are on the horizon.

## Gut microbiome may be linked to depression
URL: https://hight3ch.com/gut-microbiome-may-be-linked-to-depression/
Last updated: 2019-02-17T04:21:29+00:00

A new study of two large groups of Europeans has found several types of gut bacteria are missing in people with depression, according to Science Magazine.

## F-16 uses a motion stabilizing cockpit camera
URL: https://hight3ch.com/f-16-uses-a-motion-stabilizing-cockpit-camera/
Last updated: 2019-02-14T05:36:46+00:00

Pretty impressive video from a cockpit using a special camera.

## The Most Epic Sites On Mars That Humans Should Visit
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-most-epic-sites-on-mars-that-humans-should-visit/
Last updated: 2019-02-13T06:27:57+00:00

Mars contains some of the greatest attractions in the solar system. Here’s stunning footage of those attractions like Olympus Mons, the tallest volcano which is three times as tall as Mount Everest. And Valles Marines, a canyon as long as the entire contiguous United States.

## Why You Should Care About the Plastic in Your Poop
URL: https://hight3ch.com/why-you-should-care-about-the-plastic-in-your-poop/
Last updated: 2019-02-13T06:24:36+00:00

A recent study has concluded that people all over the world are probably ingesting microscopic plastic all the time. Now scientists want to know where this plastic is coming from, how it ends up inside of us, and the damage it could do to our bodies and our world.

## This Nuclear Robot Could Tunnel for Alien Life on Europa
URL: https://hight3ch.com/this-nuclear-robot-could-tunnel-for-alien-life-on-europa/
Last updated: 2019-02-13T06:22:35+00:00

This nuclear-powered tunneling robot could one day find life on Europa. Here’s how it works.

## The 70% top tax rate, explained with potatoes
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-70-top-tax-rate-explained-with-potatoes/
Last updated: 2019-02-13T06:21:43+00:00

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called for a 70 percent top tax rate on the super rich.

## Why don’t people get heart cancer?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/why-dont-people-get-heart-cancer/
Last updated: 2019-02-10T03:44:06+00:00

Why do you never tend to hear about cancer of the heart? Can people even get heart cancer? What makes the heart different to other organs? A heart doctor explains…

## Unbelievable Archeological Discoveries in History
URL: https://hight3ch.com/unbelievable-archeological-discoveries-in-history/
Last updated: 2019-02-10T01:38:29+00:00

You may be wondering, “What do Archaeologists even do?” Well, the answer might actually shock you. These guys aren’t just going around and digging stuff up for the fun of it.

## Can You Really Kick Out a Car Windshield?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/can-you-really-kick-out-a-car-windshield/
Last updated: 2019-02-10T01:32:49+00:00

Have you ever wondered how you would escape from a locked car? Today we’re testing several different methods for breaking through car windows- which one will work the best?

## Why Don’t We Have Nuclear Fusion Power Yet?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/why-dont-we-have-nuclear-fusion-power-yet/
Last updated: 2019-02-07T05:44:14+00:00

Fusion power is supposed to save us from fossil fuels, so when is nuclear fusion going to be a viable option and why has it been so elusive?

## Could the Goblin Planet Finally Unravel the Mystery of Planet X?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/could-the-goblin-planet-finally-unravel-the-mystery-of-planet-x/
Last updated: 2019-02-06T04:53:25+00:00

Planet 9 or also called Planet X hunters are searching the edge of our solar system for this mysterious world, and a tiny dwarf planet may finally lead to its discovery.

## Real-World Star Trek-like ‘Replicator’ Makes Objects Appear Out Of Nowhere
URL: https://hight3ch.com/real-world-star-trek-like-replicator-makes-objects-appear-out-of-nowhere/
Last updated: 2019-02-06T04:23:18+00:00

Researchers at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory invented a new 3D printer, which they nicknamed “replicator” after the infamous Star Trek device. The printer makes objects appear seemingly out of thin air by using an off-the-shelf video projector to beam light into a cylinder of light-sensitive resin.

## Slowing Down A Stock Exchange With 38 Miles Of Cable
URL: https://hight3ch.com/slowing-down-a-stock-exchange-with-38-miles-of-cable/
Last updated: 2019-02-06T04:21:36+00:00

High-frequency traders have a few tactics on stock exchanges: but simply put, they gather price information faster than anyone else, sometimes even faster than the markets themselves, and use that to make a tiny profit many, many, many times. There are all sorts of solutions: but it turns out there’s a simpler one that involves physics.

## These Sleep Engineers Could Help You Hack Your Dreams
URL: https://hight3ch.com/these-sleep-engineers-could-help-you-hack-your-dreams/
Last updated: 2019-02-06T04:20:45+00:00

A group at MIT’s Media Lab known as the “Dream Team” thinks you can harness your unconscious mind with tech you can wear to bed.

## The DeLorean paradox: how it failed and became a legend
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-delorean-paradox-how-it-failed-and-became-a-legend/
Last updated: 2019-02-03T01:58:07+00:00

The DeLorean was supposed to be the car of the future. Then they stopped making it.

## What Is Reality?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/what-is-reality/
Last updated: 2019-02-02T07:36:17+00:00

What if the very fabric of space and time isn’t made of one-dimensional strings or energy as we think of it, but instead was simply a code or a language made from a geometric projection?

## Tiny Crystals In Our Brain Could Unlock Psychic Powers
URL: https://hight3ch.com/tiny-crystals-in-our-brain-could-unlock-psychic-powers/
Last updated: 2019-02-02T05:38:18+00:00

We know that earth’s magnetic fields affect everything from our mood to our ability to learn. Even stranger, research has begun to provide links between the electromagnetic field of our planet and psychic abilities. Could magnetic crystals act like tiny antennas connecting our brains to each other and to the entire planet? It may sound far-fetched, but surprisingly, the evidence is there.

## Ibogaine – The Cure to All Addictions? – Documentary
URL: https://hight3ch.com/ibogaine-the-cure-to-all-addictions-documentary/
Last updated: 2019-01-31T06:32:53+00:00

Drug addictions are hard to treat, they are often treated with other drugs but most with low success rates. This new Ibogaine drug which has been used in many African tribes is now being looked into by mainstream medicine. It is still illegal in the U.S but patients often visit Mexico for their treatments. Apparently it can cure some of the most harmful drug addictions such as heroin and many much worse. It seems to cure the patients within just one use. If you know someone who suffers from addiction it may be worth sharing.

## Can Moons Have Moons?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/can-moons-have-moons/
Last updated: 2019-01-31T03:36:05+00:00

We all know that many planets have moons orbiting them, but is it possible for those moons have little moons of their own?

## Can AI help crack the code of fusion power?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/can-ai-help-crack-the-code-of-fusion-power/
Last updated: 2019-01-29T17:09:49+00:00

Practical fusion power, as the joke goes, has been “decades away…for decades.” But recent advancements in advanced algorithms and artificial intelligence promise to speed up the slow, slow progress towards a fusion-powered utopia. We visit one company that’s using machine learning to try and crack the code on fusion once and for all.

## How Rwanda Built A Drone Delivery Service
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-rwanda-built-a-drone-delivery-service/
Last updated: 2019-01-26T22:21:28+00:00

One of the world’s first drone delivery services is all the way in rural Rwanda, where 27 year-old Abdoul Salam Nizeyimana earns a living by launching and retrieving self-flying planes. Nizeyimana was drawn to not only the technology of his employer Zipline but also its mission: to deliver blood to remote hospitals, helping doctors save their patients’ lives. Like many in Rwanda, Nizeyimana survived a harrowing tragedy to get to where he is today.

## Megacities of the World – Documentary
URL: https://hight3ch.com/megacities-of-the-world-documentary/
Last updated: 2019-01-26T22:19:06+00:00

A full documentary on the seven megacities profiled in season one.

## Does Lactic Acid Really Cause Muscle Pain?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/does-lactic-acid-really-cause-muscle-pain/
Last updated: 2019-01-26T22:10:01+00:00

For decades, lactic acid has taken the blame for the muscle pain you feel when you exercise – but does it really deserve its bad reputation?

## Your future gadgets might rely on metals from the seafloor
URL: https://hight3ch.com/your-future-gadgets-might-rely-on-metals-from-the-seafloor/
Last updated: 2019-01-23T03:19:40+00:00

As the demand grows for the metals that power electronics, we may have to look farther and farther for mining opportunities. The next big mining frontier is the deep sea: along the seafloor, mysterious vents shoot scalding hot fluid into the ocean. These vents are a haven for miraculous and unique sea life, but they’re also home to highly concentrated (and very valuable) metals. What happens if we decide that the metals are worth more than the life?

## This Is Your Brain On Stale Air
URL: https://hight3ch.com/this-is-your-brain-on-stale-air/
Last updated: 2019-01-22T06:01:21+00:00

Interesting look at what carbon monoxide can do to our specie.

## Twins get completely different DNA ancestry test results
URL: https://hight3ch.com/twins-get-completely-different-dna-ancestry-test-results/
Last updated: 2019-01-20T23:55:45+00:00

CBC Marketplace investigates the science and marketing behind popular DNA ancestry kits. Host Charlsie Agro and her identical twin sister Carly test five top brands. Find out why ancestry test kits are not as accurate as you might think.

## Mortal Kombat and the Cheat Code That Changed Gaming
URL: https://hight3ch.com/mortal-kombat-and-the-cheat-code-that-changed-gaming/
Last updated: 2019-01-16T05:07:42+00:00

You might be too young for Mortal Kombat if you are not, just enjoy the fatality !

## Why It’s Almost Impossible to Ride a Bike 60 Kilometers in One Hour
URL: https://hight3ch.com/why-its-almost-impossible-to-ride-a-bike-60-kilometers-in-one-hour/
Last updated: 2019-01-14T18:21:31+00:00

The hour record for cycling is very simple. It’s just one rider going as far as possible for one hour. WIRED’s Robbie Gonzalez explores the physical power needed to push for 60 minutes and the equipment and track choices that can make or break the record.

## The X3 Ion Thruster Is Here, This Is How It’ll Get Us to Mars
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-x3-ion-thruster-is-here-this-is-how-itll-get-us-to-mars/
Last updated: 2019-01-14T03:12:15+00:00

The X3 is a new type of propulsion engine that smashed records during test firings. This engine and other electric propulsion systems will help us reach distant planets faster than ever before.

## What if He Falls? The Terrifying Reality Behind Filming “Free Solo”
URL: https://hight3ch.com/what-if-he-falls-the-terrifying-reality-behind-filming-free-solo/
Last updated: 2019-01-12T02:05:01+00:00

In 2017, when Alex Honnold made his stunning free-solo ascent of Yosemite’s El Capitan, he was taking an unimaginable risk: nearly three thousand feet of climbing without any ropes or safety equipment. But was the climb made even riskier by the filmmakers who accompanied him? In “What if He Falls?” filmmakers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin take us inside the process of documenting Honnold’s quest for climbing glory — and the ethical calculus of filming a friend who could, with the slip of a finger, plummet to his death.

## Inside the Race to See the Edge of the Universe
URL: https://hight3ch.com/inside-the-race-to-see-the-edge-of-the-universe/
Last updated: 2019-01-09T18:38:46+00:00

We’re in the middle of a billion dollar telescope building boom, with new ground based observatories racing to see first light in the 2020s.

## Can We Power the World With a Single Energy Grid?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/can-we-power-the-world-with-a-single-energy-grid/
Last updated: 2019-01-09T18:16:46+00:00

China is building a 1.1 million volt power line that will carry power 3,200km. Could this be the beginning of a united global energy grid?

## Neuroplasticity And The Power Of The Brain – Documentary
URL: https://hight3ch.com/neuroplasticity-and-the-power-of-the-brain-documentary/
Last updated: 2019-01-07T17:27:32+00:00

A Two-Part Documentary on the fundamentals of consciousness. This is incredibly interesting!

## Ion Propulsion – The Plane With No Moving Parts
URL: https://hight3ch.com/ion-propulsion-the-plane-with-no-moving-parts/
Last updated: 2018-12-29T04:41:21+00:00

Interesting look at the ion propulsion technology.

## The World’s Deepest Buildings
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-worlds-deepest-buildings/
Last updated: 2018-12-25T23:33:46+00:00

The World’s Deepest Buildings (That We Know About)

## This James Bond-Inspired Spy Car Is Absolute Bonkers
URL: https://hight3ch.com/this-james-bond-inspired-spy-car-is-absolute-bonkers/
Last updated: 2018-12-24T07:09:16+00:00

It comes complete with a taser door handle and flamethrower exhaust.

## Man Reverse Engineers A Material Which Has Been Lost
URL: https://hight3ch.com/man-reverse-engineers-a-material-which-has-been-lost/
Last updated: 2018-12-24T07:07:54+00:00

He uses simple ingredients, that you probably already have on hand, to make a fire-resistant material in his kitchen.

## How Future Humans Could Harness The Sun As An Unlimited Source Of Power
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-future-humans-could-harness-the-sun-as-an-unlimited-source-of-power/
Last updated: 2018-12-24T07:06:19+00:00

Dyson spheres are theoretical megastructures that would allow humans to capture the maximum amount of energy possible: the total power output of stars.

## This Fluoride Battery Could Mean Phone Batteries That Last a Week
URL: https://hight3ch.com/this-fluoride-battery-could-mean-phone-batteries-that-last-a-week/
Last updated: 2018-12-20T04:01:01+00:00

Scientists have been working on this alternative battery design since the 1970s, and now they’ve made a breakthrough. Is this the end of the lithium-ion battery?

## Why Horseshoe Crab Blood Is So Expensive
URL: https://hight3ch.com/why-horseshoe-crab-blood-is-so-expensive/
Last updated: 2018-12-20T03:39:54+00:00

Horseshoe crab blood is a vital resource to the medical field. It’s unique in more ways than one: the blue color and its ability to identify bacterial contamination in small quantities. Horseshoe crab blood contains a special amebocyte that is separated and then used in FDA testing. There’s a lot of questions as to how blood harvesting affects the American horseshoe crab population, but some researchers are dedicated to the cause of protecting such a significant resource.

## Casting a $20 Million Mirror for the World’s Largest Telescope
URL: https://hight3ch.com/casting-a-20-million-mirror-for-the-worlds-largest-telescope/
Last updated: 2018-12-19T17:40:18+00:00

Building a mirror for any giant telescope is no simple feat. The sheer size of the glass, the nanometer precision of its curves, its carefully calculated optics, and the adaptive software required to run it make this a task of herculean proportions. But the recent castings of the 15-metric ton, off-axis mirrors for the Giant Magellan Telescope forced engineers to push the design and manufacturing process beyond all previous limits.

## China Made An Artificial Star 6 Times Hotter Than The Sun
URL: https://hight3ch.com/china-made-an-artificial-star-6-times-hotter-than-the-sun/
Last updated: 2018-12-15T06:41:43+00:00

Imagine if we could replace fossil fuels with our very own stars. And no, we’re not talking about solar-power. We’re talking nuclear fusion. And right now China is working on a fusion reactor that is 6 times hotter than the sun.

## No, We Did Not Just Solve Dark Matter and Dark Energy
URL: https://hight3ch.com/no-we-did-not-just-solve-dark-matter-and-dark-energy/
Last updated: 2018-12-15T06:41:02+00:00

A paper published last week proposed a hypothesis that identified 95% of the missing stuff in the universe, but the headlines have been a little over-hyped.

## Does Someone Else Have Your Face?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/does-someone-else-have-your-face/
Last updated: 2018-12-15T06:39:12+00:00

They say everyone has a doppelgänger, but is that really true? This week we meet a young woman who found her own look-alike, and figure out how we actually recognize faces.

## How fast does glass crack?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-fast-does-glass-crack/
Last updated: 2018-12-15T06:25:21+00:00

Interesting to see slow-mo guys do some glass experiments.

## How Shazam Works
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-shazam-works/
Last updated: 2018-12-13T20:28:11+00:00

Shazam is a mobile application that helps you find out which song is being played. It is interesting to find out about it’s inner workings.

## Trickle Down Technology: From Formula E to Consumer Electric Vehicles
URL: https://hight3ch.com/trickle-down-technology-from-formula-e-to-consumer-electric-vehicles/
Last updated: 2018-12-13T20:24:23+00:00

Mashable travelled to Tokyo to see the path from the leading Formula E technology to electronic vehicles available to us all.

## Hyperloop Revolution: The Real Story of its Origins and Future
URL: https://hight3ch.com/hyperloop-revolution-the-real-story-of-its-origins-and-future/
Last updated: 2018-12-13T20:22:03+00:00

Imagine hopping on a Hyperloop capsule and getting from San Francisco to Los Angeles in 30 minutes instead driving for six hours. Now imagine the whole country having access to this kind of speed. That’s the kind of future that EPFLoop, the student team at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, are working toward.Motherboard joins the team as they present their prototype to the public and dive deep into the DNA of the Hyperloop—a concept that was developed at their university nearly 40 years ago, and one they continue to build upon.

## Why Personal Flying Machines Could Be the Future of Commuting
URL: https://hight3ch.com/why-personal-flying-machines-could-be-the-future-of-commuting/
Last updated: 2018-12-13T20:20:48+00:00

Traffic. Congestion. Pollution. Hours-long commutes. What if you could leave it all behind and trade it in for an environmentally friendly and energy-efficient personal copter—all without a pilot’s license?

## How Water Towers Work
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-water-towers-work/
Last updated: 2018-12-10T17:40:35+00:00

The job of finding enough water, making it safe to use, and then reliably distributing it to the system customers with almost no downtime is a monumental task that requires a lot of infrastructure. And, probably the most visible component of a public water system is the elevated storage tank, also known as a water tower.

## Crushing Long Steel Pipes with Hydraulic Press
URL: https://hight3ch.com/crushing-long-steel-pipes-with-hydraulic-press/
Last updated: 2018-12-08T17:16:16+00:00

This is really satisfying to watch.

## Self-Driving Boats: The Future of Navigating the High Seas
URL: https://hight3ch.com/self-driving-boats-the-future-of-navigating-the-high-seas/
Last updated: 2018-12-04T18:31:56+00:00

What if the all the ships that navigated our vast oceans could navigate, chart a course, and think for themselves—without any human input?

## The Anunnaki Creation Story – Documentary
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-anunnaki-creation-story-documentary/
Last updated: 2018-12-03T17:48:31+00:00

As always, it is nice to fantasize about our origins and attribute them to the Anunnaki. Take all of this information with a grain of salt.

## 10 Most Elite Special Forces In The World
URL: https://hight3ch.com/10-most-elite-special-forces-in-the-world/
Last updated: 2018-11-29T02:48:18+00:00

Interesting list of some of the most special forces around the world.

## Why It’s Almost Impossible to Run 100 Meters In 9 Seconds
URL: https://hight3ch.com/why-its-almost-impossible-to-run-100-meters-in-9-seconds/
Last updated: 2018-11-29T02:32:52+00:00

Usain Bolt is “the world’s fastest man” because he has the record for the 100 meter sprint at 9.58 seconds. But could runners go faster? WIRED’s Robbie Gonzalez explores the science of extreme sprinting speed.

## CBD is everywhere. But does it work?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/cbd-is-everywhere-but-does-it-work/
Last updated: 2018-11-29T02:28:46+00:00

CBD isn’t BS. But CBD products probably are.

## These Strange Metals Could Make Electronics Perfectly Efficient
URL: https://hight3ch.com/these-strange-metals-could-make-electronics-perfectly-efficient/
Last updated: 2018-11-29T02:28:07+00:00

Scientists are hunting for the high-temperature superconductor that could revolutionize electronics, and new research takes us one step closer.

## The World’s Most Remote Building
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-worlds-most-remote-building/
Last updated: 2018-11-25T17:20:17+00:00

Interesting video on world’s most remove buildings.

## A Kilogram Is Now a Kilogram—Forever
URL: https://hight3ch.com/a-kilogram-is-now-a-kilogram-forever/
Last updated: 2018-11-25T00:52:54+00:00

This week in SciShow News, there’s a new kilogram in town, and we might be closer to understanding why people love coffee so much!

## Inside China’s plans for the biggest ever particle collider
URL: https://hight3ch.com/inside-chinas-plans-for-the-biggest-ever-particle-collider/
Last updated: 2018-11-25T00:49:11+00:00

TomoNews is your best source for real news. We cover the funniest, craziest and most talked-about stories on the internet. If you’re laughing, we’re laughing. If you’re outraged, we’re outraged. We tell it like it is. And because we can animate stories, TomoNews brings you news like you’ve never seen before.

## Can We Get Older Without Aging?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/can-we-get-older-without-aging/
Last updated: 2018-11-23T03:04:34+00:00

Nothing is guaranteed in life except death, taxes, and entropy. What do other life forms have to teach us about staying alive as we get old, and will we ever conquer death?

## Macgyvering a Cement Truck
URL: https://hight3ch.com/macgyvering-a-cement-truck/
Last updated: 2018-11-23T02:52:09+00:00

MacGyver has a nearby cement truck dump its load onto the truck to smother the bomb. But would it work in real life?

## Amazing Places – Testing The World’s Longest Echo
URL: https://hight3ch.com/amazing-places-testing-the-worlds-longest-echo/
Last updated: 2018-11-20T03:32:39+00:00

Technically, the Inchindown oil tanks in Invergordon, Scotland, have the world’s longest reverberation, but that makes a much worse title. We tested them with a loud noise and some very sensitive microphones.

## Purple Bacteria: Turning Poop Into Biofuel
URL: https://hight3ch.com/purple-bacteria-turning-poop-into-biofuel/
Last updated: 2018-11-17T05:02:03+00:00

Scientists are turning wastewater into fuel, using special bacteria, and other scientists have unveiled bionic mushrooms that can produce electricity!

## The Milky Way as You’ve Never Seen It Before
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-milky-way-as-youve-never-seen-it-before/
Last updated: 2018-11-15T06:03:23+00:00

Fly through the galaxy with Museum astrophysicist Jackie Faherty, who takes us on a dazzling tour of new research and data visualizations made possible by recently released data from the Gaia space telescope.

## Supersymmetric Particle Found?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/supersymmetric-particle-found/
Last updated: 2018-11-15T05:40:58+00:00

With the large hadron collider running out of places to look for clues to a deeper theory of physics, we need a bigger particle accelerator. We have one – the galaxy.

## Why Computers Can’t Count Sometimes
URL: https://hight3ch.com/why-computers-cant-count-sometimes/
Last updated: 2018-11-13T03:24:38+00:00

Sometimes, numbers on sites like YouTube and Twitter jump up and down; subscriber counts lag, like-counts bounce all over the place. Why is it so hard for computers to count? To answer that, we need to talk about threading, eventual consistency, and caching.

## The Strange Case of the Missing Sunscreen Gene
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-strange-case-of-the-missing-sunscreen-gene/
Last updated: 2018-11-13T03:16:35+00:00

If you’ve ever spent too much time in the sun and forgotten to put on sunscreen, you know how painful a sunburn can be. But for some animals, forgetting the sunscreen wouldn’t be a problem because they can just produce their own!

## The Vanishing Quantum Sculptures
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-vanishing-quantum-sculptures/
Last updated: 2018-11-10T05:51:21+00:00

Julian Voss-Andreae’s work takes the human body and twists it through the lens of quantum physics.

## How Do You Test the World’s Fastest Jet Engines?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-do-you-test-the-worlds-fastest-jet-engines/
Last updated: 2018-11-10T02:09:10+00:00

The U.S. Air Force is home to the fastest jets in the world. It’s up to the jet propulsion technicians and maintenance crews to keep their engines up to tip top shape and roaring at full power.

## How Gravity Built the World’s Fastest Jet Suit
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-gravity-built-the-worlds-fastest-jet-suit/
Last updated: 2018-11-10T02:04:31+00:00

Richard Browning built the world’s fastest personal jet suit. WIRED spoke with him to find out about the design process and engineering a radical new form of transportation.

## Why It’s Almost Impossible to Skip a Stone 89 Times
URL: https://hight3ch.com/why-its-almost-impossible-to-skip-a-stone-89-times/
Last updated: 2018-11-10T01:42:05+00:00

Kurt Steiner set the world record for skipping stones by hurling a rock at the water and making it skip an astonishing 88 times. How is that even possible? WIRED’s Robbie Gonzalez got coaching from Steiner to find out how he does it — and looked into fluid dynamics and physics to see whether we’ve reached the limit for skipping stones.

## Why everything will collapse – Documentary
URL: https://hight3ch.com/why-everything-will-collapse-documentary/
Last updated: 2018-11-07T17:02:01+00:00

If you sense that the future looks bleak, that there is little chance that this whole mess will end in joy and good humor, that there is a tiny chance that we will escape a systemic collapse of the thermo-industrial civilization, you are not far from reality. In this video, based on the available data, we try to explain why we think the situation is inextricable and that a systemic collapse is now inevitable.

## Britains Largest battery is actually a lake
URL: https://hight3ch.com/britains-largest-battery-is-actually-a-lake/
Last updated: 2018-11-06T02:11:08+00:00

Dinorwig Power Station, otherwise known as Electric Mountain, is a pumped-storage hydro station in Llanberis, Wales. And yes: it’s Britain’s largest battery. Here’s how it works, and why some of the things you think you know about TV pickups might not be so true any more.

## Don’t Fool Yourself, Life is Not a Journey
URL: https://hight3ch.com/dont-fool-yourself-life-is-not-a-journey/
Last updated: 2018-11-04T06:15:07+00:00

Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. His philosophies seem to transcend ego, politics and limitations. His monologues have a powerful way of connecting distant abstract ideas with the present moment and his words have a unique way of putting life into perspective. Life is a gift.

## 15 Gadgets That Will Give You Real Superpowers
URL: https://hight3ch.com/15-gadgets-that-will-give-you-real-superpowers/
Last updated: 2018-11-03T02:32:39+00:00

These inventions will make you a real life super hero and give you incredible powers.

## Is algae the food of the future?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/is-algae-the-food-of-the-future/
Last updated: 2018-10-31T02:39:47+00:00

In the middle of the New Mexican desert there’s a company called iWi that’s farming algae for people to eat. Could this miracle marine plant feed our growing population?

## Can We Block the Sun to Stop Climate Change?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/can-we-block-the-sun-to-stop-climate-change/
Last updated: 2018-10-27T17:33:12+00:00

Interesting look at the possibility of blocking the sun. 

## First look at a new wave pool in Australia
URL: https://hight3ch.com/first-look-at-a-new-wave-pool-in-australia/
Last updated: 2018-10-27T02:12:35+00:00

Welcome to the New World Order. That’s Dingo Morrison (almost) getting tubed.

## Does time exist?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/does-time-exist/
Last updated: 2018-10-24T02:56:44+00:00

The earliest time measurements were observations of cycles of the natural world, using patterns of changes from day to night and season to season to build calendars. More precise time-keeping eventually came along to put time in more convenient boxes. But what exactly are we measuring? Andrew Zimmerman Jones contemplates whether time is something that physically exists or is just in our heads.

## We May Have Just Found the Strongest Material in the Universe
URL: https://hight3ch.com/we-may-have-just-found-the-strongest-material-in-the-universe/
Last updated: 2018-10-24T02:28:40+00:00

Underneath the crust of spinning neutron stars, there’s a material that is not only strong, but looks like pasta? Nuclear pasta to be exact. Here’s what else scientists know.

## Woman Invents a Suit That Feels When She Gets Turned On
URL: https://hight3ch.com/woman-invents-a-suit-that-feels-when-she-gets-turned-on/
Last updated: 2018-10-21T16:07:29+00:00

Woman Invents a Suit That Feels When She Gets Turned On

## Decentraland: The virtual land selling for millions
URL: https://hight3ch.com/decentraland-the-virtual-land-selling-for-millions/
Last updated: 2018-10-20T06:34:40+00:00

Investors are spending real money to buy land in a new city that only exists in virtual reality. Buyers can build whatever they want on their plots in Decentraland. Many hope to make a profit trading goods and services in the virtual world’s own crypto currency. But will Decentraland be an online utopia or a cyber slum?

## Why a Half Degree Rise in Global Temperature Would Be Catastrophic
URL: https://hight3ch.com/why-a-half-degree-rise-in-global-temperature-would-be-catastrophic/
Last updated: 2018-10-20T06:09:43+00:00

According to a new report, Earth is likely to reach 1.5°C warming by 2030. Here’s why that’s a big deal.

## Launch Pad Water Deluge System Test at NASA
URL: https://hight3ch.com/launch-pad-water-deluge-system-test-at-nasa/
Last updated: 2018-10-20T05:11:41+00:00

NASA just uploaded a test of their new Launch Pad Water Deluge System. Releases 450,000 gallons of water to cool rocket exhaust, spraying 100 ft. in the air.

## 747 firefighting airplane drops 70+ tons of water
URL: https://hight3ch.com/747-firefighting-airplane-drops-70-tons-of-water/
Last updated: 2018-10-20T05:10:46+00:00

What it’s like to stand under a 747 firefighting airplane as it drops 70+ tons of water.

## How Machine Learning is Fighting Cancer
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-machine-learning-is-fighting-cancer/
Last updated: 2018-10-19T17:14:22+00:00

Machine learning is going well beyond our past expectations. 

## What if cracks in concrete could fix themselves?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/what-if-cracks-in-concrete-could-fix-themselves/
Last updated: 2018-10-17T05:51:51+00:00

Concrete is the most widely used construction material in the world. It can be found in swathes of city pavements, bridges that span vast rivers and the tallest skyscrapers on earth. But it does have a weakness: it’s prone to catastrophic cracking that has immense financial and environmental impact. What if we could avoid that problem? Congrui Jin explores how to create a more resilient concrete.

## DeLorean Hovercraft Is Perfect For ‘Back To The Future’ Fans
URL: https://hight3ch.com/delorean-hovercraft-is-perfect-for-back-to-the-future-fans/
Last updated: 2018-10-15T03:56:50+00:00

If you are a true ‘Back to the Future’ fan, you know the DeLorean is a star of the film series. This replica is made out of styrofoam insulation and fiberglass. The most impressive part? This DeLorean floats. We took a look behind the scenes of this DIY creation.

## Tesla: The Past, Present, Future – Jay Leno’s Garage
URL: https://hight3ch.com/tesla-the-past-present-future-jay-lenos-garage/
Last updated: 2018-10-14T02:20:35+00:00

Jay Leno takes a spin in the fastest production car ever made. With 3 motors, 10,000Nm of torque and a top speed of 250+ mph, the 2020 Tesla Roadster is more like a fighter plane.

## LASERs: How they get so powerful
URL: https://hight3ch.com/lasers-how-they-get-so-powerful/
Last updated: 2018-10-13T16:18:04+00:00

Lasers are getting more and more powerful. 

## How Close Are We to Talking With Animals?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-close-are-we-to-talking-with-animals/
Last updated: 2018-10-13T16:16:22+00:00

We know about apes learning sign language, but what about dolphins typing on an underwater keyboard? Or A.I. machines translating prairie dog chirps? We want to answer how close we are to conversing with the animal kingdom.

## Parkour Atlas | Boston Dynamics
URL: https://hight3ch.com/parkour-atlas-boston-dynamics/
Last updated: 2018-10-12T03:17:57+00:00

Atlas does parkour. The control software uses the whole body including legs, arms and torso, to marshal the energy and strength for jumping over the log and leaping up the steps without breaking its pace. (Step height 40 cm.) Atlas uses computer vision to locate itself with respect to visible markers on the approach to hit the terrain accurately.

## How One Artist Creates Sculptures That Are Only Visible from One Angle
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-one-artist-creates-sculptures-that-are-only-visible-from-one-angle/
Last updated: 2018-10-12T02:59:30+00:00

Jim Bond is an artist whose sculptures make the invisible visible. His latest installation, a three dimensional illuminated portrait of Rosalind Franklin, is only fully visible from only one position.

## Inside The Shared Hallucinations of Our Conscious Reality
URL: https://hight3ch.com/inside-the-shared-hallucinations-of-our-conscious-reality/
Last updated: 2018-10-12T02:49:38+00:00

In episode eight of The Most Unknown, physicist Jun Ye, builder of the world’s most powerful atomic clock, travels to England to undergo consciousness experiments with neuroscientist Anil Seth.

## Computing a Universe Simulation
URL: https://hight3ch.com/computing-a-universe-simulation/
Last updated: 2018-10-11T03:09:20+00:00

Physics seems to be telling us that it’s possible to simulate the entire universe on a computer smaller than the universe.

## Watch the US stall on climate change for 12 years
URL: https://hight3ch.com/watch-the-us-stall-on-climate-change-for-12-years/
Last updated: 2018-10-11T03:00:20+00:00

It was once a bipartisan issue, but now one of America’s major parties acts like climate science doesn’t exist. This is an updated version of a video we published in 2016.

## Changing cow feed could cut methane emissions
URL: https://hight3ch.com/changing-cow-feed-could-cut-methane-emissions/
Last updated: 2018-10-11T02:55:47+00:00

Scientists in California have found that making a small change to what cows eat can dramatically cut the amount of methane they produce. Researchers predict their findings will help governments meet their targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Steve Mort reports now on what the secret ingredient is.

## This Robot Can Jump on One Leg
URL: https://hight3ch.com/this-robot-can-jump-on-one-leg/
Last updated: 2018-10-10T15:23:37+00:00

Precise Hopping with Salto-1P Robot

## Underwater Jetpack
URL: https://hight3ch.com/underwater-jetpack-2/
Last updated: 2018-10-08T02:25:35+00:00

Eat your heart out Aquaman. This jetpack uses a simple system of propellers to send you flying through the water.

## How We Will Colonise The Moon
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-we-will-colonise-the-moon/
Last updated: 2018-10-07T01:29:26+00:00

How We Will Colonise The Moon

## This Hydroponic Farm Is Run Entirely By Robots
URL: https://hight3ch.com/this-hydroponic-farm-is-run-entirely-by-robots/
Last updated: 2018-10-07T01:26:03+00:00

Iron Ox has just opened its first fully automated farm in San Carlos, California. The company claims that their hydroponic system can produce 30 times the yield per acre of land comparing to traditional farms, while using 90% less water.

## TAB – Wearable Keyboard and Mouse
URL: https://hight3ch.com/tab-wearable-keyboard-and-mouse/
Last updated: 2018-10-04T16:08:08+00:00

The Tap is a futuristic, one-handed wearable keyboard and mouse that works with all you smart devices via a Bluetooth connection. When you Tap your fingers, the commands are sent to your phone, laptop, tablet, smart TV, or any other smart device! Tap uses a new alphabet that uses intuitive muscle memory and is much easier to learn than traditional typing. Remove sight from your system requirements for typing on the go, in virtual worlds, or when you just don’t want a keyboard right in front of your face.

## Why New York’s Skyline Has a Distinct Look
URL: https://hight3ch.com/why-new-yorks-skyline-has-a-distinct-look/
Last updated: 2018-10-04T04:46:14+00:00

Why do so many of New York’s older skyscrapers have a similar design? The answer can be traced back to a monumental 1916 zoning law, which established “setback” requirements for buildings above a certain height. In the heart of the Financial District, the Equitable Building, a historic skyscraper that predates the law, remains a symbol of the excesses of the pre-zoning era.

## The Randomness Problem: How Lava Lamps Protect the Internet
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-randomness-problem-how-lava-lamps-protect-the-internet/
Last updated: 2018-10-04T04:06:58+00:00

Randomness is important for all kinds of things, from science to security, but to generate true randomness, engineers have turned to some pretty odd tricks!

## Hypersonic Missiles and the Problems they Present
URL: https://hight3ch.com/hypersonic-missiles-and-the-problems-they-present/
Last updated: 2018-10-02T18:43:37+00:00

RAND researchers present an overview of their key findings on hypersonic missiles — a new class of military threat capable of maneuvering and flying faster than 5,000 kilometers per hour. Richard Speier, George Nacouzi, Rich Moore, and 2015–2016 Stanton Nuclear Fellow Carrie Lee describe how speed and maneuverability enable such missiles to penetrate most missile defenses, and further compress the timelines for a response by a nation under attack. This research, sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York for its project Disruptive Technologies and the Future of Deterrence, suggests that there is probably less than a decade available to

## Debunk the Flying Selfie Phone Scam
URL: https://hight3ch.com/debunk-the-flying-selfie-phone-scam/
Last updated: 2018-09-28T23:12:20+00:00

The guy who made this scam should be ashamed of himself. 

## Youtube scientist shows us black fire!
URL: https://hight3ch.com/youtube-scientist-shows-us-black-fire/
Last updated: 2018-09-27T03:18:03+00:00

Youtube scientist shows us black fire!

## Is the Secret to Superhuman Performance in Your Gut?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/is-the-secret-to-superhuman-performance-in-your-gut/
Last updated: 2018-09-25T00:30:51+00:00

Could studying Ben’s superhuman microbiome unlock secrets about the dynamic connection between our environments, activities, and everyday health?

## What If We Make A Tunnel Under The Ocean?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/what-if-we-make-a-tunnel-under-the-ocean/
Last updated: 2018-09-25T00:29:04+00:00

Well how about a tunnel across the Atlantic? Not an easy task…

## Hyperloop Explained
URL: https://hight3ch.com/hyperloop-explained/
Last updated: 2018-09-24T04:29:32+00:00

Hyperloop represents the greatest leap in transport infrastructure for generations.

## The Science Of Mounting Tires With Controlled Explosions
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-science-of-mounting-tires-with-controlled-explosions/
Last updated: 2018-09-24T02:55:09+00:00

Videos of people lighting their tires on fire using matches and lighter fluid have quickly gone viral. Incredibly enough, this spectacle isn’t just for show. It can prove practical in an emergency when your tires have become flat and no longer form a seal with your wheels. This video delves into the science behind setting tire beads that have become unseated, and mounting a tire on a wheel using a controlled explosion.

## We Are The Gods Now – A Look At The Singularity
URL: https://hight3ch.com/we-are-the-gods-now-a-look-at-the-singularity/
Last updated: 2018-09-24T01:56:55+00:00

Technology is upending the world. Accelerating technologies are giving us new construction kits for our reality. Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology and Nanotechnology are the three overlapping revolutions that will change what it means to be human. The end of aging, a revolution in healthcare, digital immortality, an intelligence explosion… we can barely begin to imagine what’s coming. But here is a meditation, a look at where we might we heading…

## How NASA Reinvented The Wheel – Shape Memory Alloys
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-nasa-reinvented-the-wheel-shape-memory-alloys/
Last updated: 2018-09-23T05:55:53+00:00

How NASA Reinvented The Wheel – Shape Memory Alloys

## Breaking Out of Jail with a Distributed Load of Antacid
URL: https://hight3ch.com/breaking-out-of-jail-with-a-distributed-load-of-antacid/
Last updated: 2018-09-23T05:55:09+00:00

If you work for 10 years collecting antacids in prison, can you escape?

## Is This New Super Carbon Better Than Graphene?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/is-this-new-super-carbon-better-than-graphene/
Last updated: 2018-09-23T05:49:52+00:00

Scientists have been searching for schwarzites for decades, here’s how their discovery could change our world.

## Where Are All the Electric Airplanes?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/where-are-all-the-electric-airplanes/
Last updated: 2018-09-23T05:46:27+00:00

Clean, renewable energy is becoming more and more common in our everyday lives. But, as our cars and buildings become more green, tens of thousands of airplanes fly every day using petroleum-based fuel, and there’s seemingly no end in sight. Why?

## How Do Spacesuits Work?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-do-spacesuits-work/
Last updated: 2018-09-21T05:32:08+00:00

A spacesuit is designed to keep astronauts safe in the vacuum of space, and its main secret is low pressure.

## Mind Blowing Hidden Secret Furniture
URL: https://hight3ch.com/mind-blowing-hidden-secret-furniture/
Last updated: 2018-09-21T05:30:38+00:00

These are some of the best hidden furniture tricks.

## This Car Seat Transforms into a Stroller in Seconds
URL: https://hight3ch.com/this-car-seat-transforms-into-a-stroller-in-seconds/
Last updated: 2018-09-21T05:28:59+00:00

The Doona is a car seat that was designed with integrated wheels, allowing parents to easily transport their infant from the car to the street in seconds. The invention has been certified as a car seat, a stroller, and an infant carrier. Not bad.

## Why Don’t Birds Have Vertical Tails Like Airplanes?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/why-dont-birds-have-vertical-tails-like-airplanes/
Last updated: 2018-09-19T03:47:34+00:00

How do you tell a plane from a bird? The vertical tail, of course! By why can birds fly without a vertical tail, and how do planes use their vertical tails to stay in the air?

## The Mystery of the Kaimanawa Wall
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-mystery-of-the-kaimanawa-wall/
Last updated: 2018-09-19T03:18:00+00:00

A pyramid in New Zealand? or just a pile of very even blocks of stone. If it is a man made structure, we know it is at least 1800 years old. In 186 AD the Taupo eruption covered a vast area in volcanic ash and pumice….including this mound of stone.

## Road Cone Placing Machine Is Safer And More Efficient
URL: https://hight3ch.com/road-cone-placing-machine-is-safer-and-more-efficient/
Last updated: 2018-09-18T04:46:08+00:00

The Roadrunner cone placing machine from Royal Truck & Equipment Inc. places and retrieves road cones without the need to get off the vehicle. This invention makes placing and retrieving traffic cones safer and more efficient.

## One of the best optical illusions ever
URL: https://hight3ch.com/one-of-the-best-optical-illusions-ever/
Last updated: 2018-09-18T04:35:59+00:00

This window illusion is pretty mind blowing and also very annoying.

## This improbable membrane can trap flies in a jar—and odor in a toilet
URL: https://hight3ch.com/this-improbable-membrane-can-trap-flies-in-a-jar-and-odor-in-a-toilet/
Last updated: 2018-09-05T17:08:00+00:00

Reverse filter lets bigger things through, hold back smaller things.

## China’s Waste Ban Is Causing A Trash Crisis In The U.S.
URL: https://hight3ch.com/chinas-waste-ban-is-causing-a-trash-crisis-in-the-u-s/
Last updated: 2018-09-05T16:15:41+00:00

China imports more recyclable goods than any other country in the world. But earlier this year, China stopped accepting a long list of imported plastic and paper waste, and implemented much stricter guidelines for what it’s willing to take in.  

## How David Blaine barfs frogs
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-david-blaine-barfs-frogs/
Last updated: 2018-09-05T04:35:43+00:00

Blaine’s new frog trick isn’t magic at all.

## Juggling in a Cone
URL: https://hight3ch.com/juggling-in-a-cone/
Last updated: 2018-09-04T02:28:05+00:00

Juggling in a Cone | Outrageous Acts of Science

## 1000Rpm Spinning Belt of Knives
URL: https://hight3ch.com/1000rpm-spinning-belt-of-knives/
Last updated: 2018-08-31T05:12:58+00:00

This man had a little too much time on his belt.

## The Pinball Doctors: The Last Arcade Technicians in NYC
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-pinball-doctors-the-last-arcade-technicians-in-nyc/
Last updated: 2018-08-31T04:58:26+00:00

Pinball was once an American obsession. Now, the arcade classic is making a comeback, but the repair technicians skilled enough to repair these complex machines are limited.

## Veterans Are Asked What a Nuclear Bomb Explosion Feels Like?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/veterans-are-asked-what-a-nuclear-bomb-explosion-feels-like/
Last updated: 2018-08-30T06:15:09+00:00

Interesting testimonies that should never be forgotten.

## This Is the Engineering You’d Need to Cross the Pacific Ocean
URL: https://hight3ch.com/this-is-the-engineering-youd-need-to-cross-the-pacific-ocean/
Last updated: 2018-08-30T06:04:47+00:00

The secrets to converting a twenty-meter racing yacht into a vessel seaworthy of a historic voyage? Reverse osmosis and fiberglass batteries, of course.

## America Bought The Space Program From Yugoslavia – Documentary
URL: https://hight3ch.com/america-bought-the-space-program-from-yugoslavia/
Last updated: 2018-08-29T01:28:30+00:00

U.S.A bought a space program from Yugoslavia, and ended up on the moon, except that the program didn’t really work. Josip Broz Tito was the socialist leader of Yugoslavia, the country that has been split and now called Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia. All of those countries combined were called Yugoslavia and not many people knew that they had a space program, not even the Yugoslavs knew. This is the story of how Tito sold his space program to J.F Kennedy to help America win the race to the Moon. America paid Yugoslavia 2.5 Billion dollars

## Stop peeing in the pool. Chlorine doesn’t work like you think.
URL: https://hight3ch.com/stop-peeing-in-the-pool-chlorine-doesnt-work-like-you-think/
Last updated: 2018-08-29T00:31:33+00:00

Pee-ple taking bathroom breaks in pools is not good.

## Hammer with Collated Nail Dispenser
URL: https://hight3ch.com/hammer-with-collated-nail-dispenser/
Last updated: 2018-08-22T03:09:27+00:00

This is a pretty ingenious hammer.

## You No Longer Have To Go To Italy To Study These Artificats
URL: https://hight3ch.com/you-no-longer-have-to-go-to-italy-to-study-these-artificats/
Last updated: 2018-08-22T03:03:37+00:00

The Uffizi Galleries partnered with Indiana University to digitize their entire sculpture collection. The Uffizi Digitization Project currently hosts over 300 interactive 3D scans of the Gallery’s masterpieces that you can view in detail from the comfort of your home.

## What Is in a Meteor Crater?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/what-is-in-a-meteor-crater/
Last updated: 2018-08-20T23:50:39+00:00

If you buy a crater in hopes of striking it rich, you might have a bad time.

## Your Private Messages Might Travel Under This Beach
URL: https://hight3ch.com/your-private-messages-might-travel-under-this-beach/
Last updated: 2018-08-20T23:39:00+00:00

In Porthcurno, Cornwall, there’s an old telegraph cable landing station. It’s how Britain talked to the Empire — and it’s now a museum. But the technology here isn’t quite as obsolete as you might think.

## 100 Year Old Self-Playing Violin – “The Eighth Wonder Of the World”
URL: https://hight3ch.com/100-year-old-self-playing-violin-the-eighth-wonder-of-the-world/
Last updated: 2018-08-17T02:21:25+00:00

This was made a 100 years ago, that’s pretty impressive.

## World’s largest man-made waterfall
URL: https://hight3ch.com/worlds-largest-man-made-waterfall/
Last updated: 2018-08-17T01:37:56+00:00

New skyscrapers usually only attract attention if they’re among the world’s tallest. But one tower in China is causing quite a stir for its rather large water feature.

## How Close Are We to Fusion Energy?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-close-are-we-to-fusion-energy/
Last updated: 2018-08-17T01:36:19+00:00

Fusion energy might be the safe, efficient, reliable and clean energy source that could save our planet. But, how close are we to a world where fusion energy is powering our homes?

## Scientists Make an Awesome Error That Could Save Our Planet from Plastic Hell
URL: https://hight3ch.com/scientists-make-an-awesome-error-that-could-save-our-planet-from-plastic-hell/
Last updated: 2018-08-17T01:35:39+00:00

A team of researchers from from Britain’s University of Portsmouth and the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory made an enzyme that can eat up plastic bottles. They were playing around with a known enzyme made by a bacteria that can break down plastic, and just so happened to make the enzyme even better.

## Fly Through the Air With This Jetwing
URL: https://hight3ch.com/fly-through-the-air-with-this-jetwing/
Last updated: 2018-08-17T01:26:43+00:00

This jetwing is like a hang glider, plane, and jetpack all had a baby together! I never get tired of watching this. Freedom !!

## Stunning VFX Work “Age Reduction”
URL: https://hight3ch.com/stunning-vfx-work-age-reduction/
Last updated: 2018-08-15T16:20:12+00:00

Ever wonder how movie stars are always looking younger and younger?

## Inside Hong Kong’s cage homes
URL: https://hight3ch.com/inside-hong-kongs-cage-homes/
Last updated: 2018-08-15T16:13:32+00:00

Hong Kong is the most expensive housing market in the world. It has been ranked as the least affordable housing market on Earth for eight years in a row, and the price per square foot seems to be only going up. The inflated prices are forcing Hongkongers to squeeze into unconventionally small spaces that can affect their quality of life.

## Ion-Powered Rockets Could Take Us to Distant Planets
URL: https://hight3ch.com/ion-powered-rockets-could-take-us-to-distant-planets/
Last updated: 2018-08-15T16:11:43+00:00

Chemical rockets got us to the moon, but we’ll need something with a little more oomph to catapult us into deep space. Here are our options so far.

## A Puzzling Gravitational Pull | What on Earth?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/a-puzzling-gravitational-pull-what-on-earth/
Last updated: 2018-08-15T16:10:16+00:00

What could be the cause of this excessive gravitational pull? A volcano, or perhaps something else?

## This Pyro Makes The Strongest DIY Lasers In The World Out of Old Tech
URL: https://hight3ch.com/this-pyro-makes-the-strongest-diy-lasers-in-the-world-out-of-old-tech/
Last updated: 2018-08-15T16:06:30+00:00

From a storage unit in rural Illinois, YouTuber Styropyro builds high-powered laser experiments in a makeshift lab for his nearly half a million subscribers. A chemist by training, Drake Anthony started his Styropyro YouTube channel over a decade ago, when he was still a teenager.

## NASA Is Going to The Sun, Here’s Why That’s So Crazy
URL: https://hight3ch.com/nasa-is-going-to-the-sun-heres-why-thats-so-crazy/
Last updated: 2018-08-13T20:09:12+00:00

NASA is launching humanity’s first ever mission to touch the Sun, and it could solve two of the most vexing mysteries in astrophysics.

## Artificial Intelligence Is Mapping the Pacific Ocean’s Secret Soundscape
URL: https://hight3ch.com/artificial-intelligence-is-mapping-the-pacific-oceans-secret-soundscape/
Last updated: 2018-08-13T20:08:43+00:00

With the help of artificial intelligence, the crew aboard Seeker is recording and analyzing up to 3,000 hours of underwater audio to create the most comprehensive soundscape of the Pacific Ocean.

## Wormholes Explained
URL: https://hight3ch.com/wormholes-explained/
Last updated: 2018-08-13T05:33:48+00:00

In case you ever wondered what a worm hole is.

## Iron Man Becoming Real (Richard Browning, Gravity Industries)
URL: https://hight3ch.com/iron-man-becoming-real-richard-browning-gravity-industries/
Last updated: 2018-08-11T04:32:36+00:00

This is how we are building the real Iron Man.

## Designing the Perfect Airport Runway
URL: https://hight3ch.com/designing-the-perfect-airport-runway/
Last updated: 2018-08-11T04:24:54+00:00

Designing the Perfect Airport Runway

## Incredible low cloud formation over Lake Michigan
URL: https://hight3ch.com/incredible-low-cloud-formation-over-lake-michigan/
Last updated: 2018-08-11T03:51:32+00:00

These clouds look to be out of this world.

## Object Off Coast Of Greece Wasn’t There Before
URL: https://hight3ch.com/object-off-coast-of-greece-wasnt-there-before/
Last updated: 2018-08-10T05:20:05+00:00

Interesting image off of coast of Greece. 

## Ancient Artifacts – Documentary 2018
URL: https://hight3ch.com/ancient-artifacts/
Last updated: 2018-08-09T03:18:37+00:00

Take these artifacts with a large grain of salt, if it sounds good to be true it probably has a simpler explanation. Nevertheless it is interesting to view these. Do your own research on these. 

## Here’s Why This Super Lightweight Concrete Slab Is The Future Of Architecture
URL: https://hight3ch.com/heres-why-this-super-lightweight-concrete-slab-is-the-future-of-architecture/
Last updated: 2018-08-08T18:40:32+00:00

Researchers at the the technical school ETH Zurich have constructed a unique lightweight concrete ceiling by mixing computational design, 3D printing and prefabrication.

## Testing The Sound Mirrors That Protected Britain
URL: https://hight3ch.com/testing-the-sound-mirrors-that-protected-britain/
Last updated: 2018-08-06T18:41:21+00:00

Testing The Sound Mirrors That Protected Britain

## The Legendary Voice Behind Movie Trailers
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-legendary-voice-behind-movie-trailers/
Last updated: 2018-08-04T04:46:27+00:00

You’ve never seen his face, but you’d know those booming bass tones anywhere. With over 100 movie trailers under his belt, Redd Pepper is the voice behind all your favorite blockbuster hits.

## How Africa is Becoming China’s China
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-africa-is-becoming-chinas-china/
Last updated: 2018-07-31T17:55:35+00:00

  Interesting look at how China is investing into Africa to extend it’s economy. This is really good news for Africa, we hope.

## Why has it been so hot??
URL: https://hight3ch.com/why-has-it-been-so-hot/
Last updated: 2018-07-31T02:49:33+00:00

  This summer in the Northern Hemisphere we’ve seen some pretty exceptional temperatures, not seen in the UK since 1976. However in 76 the UK was a red blob in a mostly blue temperature map. In 2018 the UK’s heatwave is a red blob in a sea of yellow and orange. This video talks about the three things that caused this scorching hot summer across the hemisphere.

## Construction workers set off explosives under a wheelbarrow, on the job site
URL: https://hight3ch.com/construction-workers-set-off-explosives-under-a-wheelbarrow-on-the-job-site/
Last updated: 2018-07-31T02:48:53+00:00

This is what happens when construction workers have a little too much time on their hands.

## Could Magnonics Spark the Extinction of Electronics?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/could-magnonics-spark-the-extinction-of-electronics/
Last updated: 2018-07-31T02:31:12+00:00

Faster, more efficient electronics may be on the horizon thanks to a creative use of magnetism… as soon as we can stop blowing stuff up. Meet “magnonics.”

## Someone Taught Amazon’s Alexa Sign Language
URL: https://hight3ch.com/someone-taught-amazons-alexa-sign-language/
Last updated: 2018-07-31T02:25:11+00:00

Abishek Singh, a software engineer and generally awesome person, created a mod that let’s Alexa understand language. Watch it in action!

## Extinguish Fire with Coca Cola or Soda
URL: https://hight3ch.com/extinguish-fire-with-coca-cola-or-soda/
Last updated: 2018-07-25T20:41:42+00:00

There are different ways to extinguish a fire. More recently new products have surfaced such as extinguisher blasters, throwable extinguishers but little is know the old Coca Cola bottle as an extinguisher. From what we understand the soda in Coca Cola displaces oxygen. As long as it is not oil burning or some sort of electricity you can use Coca Cola.  Old-fashion “soda” fire extinguishers squirted what was essentially cola, sans sugar, flavoring, and artificial color.

## A Giant Underground Lake on Mars! |
URL: https://hight3ch.com/a-giant-underground-lake-on-mars/
Last updated: 2018-07-25T19:21:39+00:00

Scientists have discovered an underground lake of liquid water on Mars! While this isn’t itself evidence for life on Mars, it does raise some new possibilities.

## Why Can’t we Remake the Rocketdyne F1 Engine?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/why-cant-we-remake-the-rocketdyne-f1-engine/
Last updated: 2018-07-25T04:53:35+00:00

Apparently we no longer can make these engines. Sad, very sad.

## Why Tunnels Don’t Collapse
URL: https://hight3ch.com/why-tunnels-dont-collapse/
Last updated: 2018-07-24T15:14:12+00:00

If you ever wondered why tunnels don’t collapse here is a good video on it.

## How The 90s VHS Look Works
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-the-90s-vhs-look-works/
Last updated: 2018-07-24T06:24:50+00:00

How The 90s VHS Look Works

## The mysterious world under the skin – Documentary
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-mysterious-world-under-the-skin-documentary/
Last updated: 2018-07-24T04:30:44+00:00

The mysterious world under the skin (2018) Under the skin, the human body has a connective tissue called fascia that contains muscles and nerves. But what does the fascia do?

## The World in UV
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-world-in-uv/
Last updated: 2018-07-22T17:35:11+00:00

UV cameras expose a hidden world and reveal the incompleteness of our perception.

## How Hot Could It Actually Get?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-hot-could-it-actually-get/
Last updated: 2018-07-20T04:41:19+00:00

What’s the hottest it could possibly get in our solar system? Maybe we’ll look deeper into the universe next.

## Road diets: designing a safer street
URL: https://hight3ch.com/road-diets-designing-a-safer-street/
Last updated: 2018-07-20T04:38:51+00:00

Reconfigure the lanes and the traffic will calm.

## How Quarks Fixed the Mess That Was Particle Physics
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-quarks-fixed-the-mess-that-was-particle-physics/
Last updated: 2018-07-20T04:37:24+00:00

Particle physics isn’t simple, but it was much more confusing before physicists knew about quarks.

## Test Driving This Summer’s Wildest Watercraft
URL: https://hight3ch.com/test-driving-this-summers-wildest-watercraft/
Last updated: 2018-07-19T02:54:59+00:00

Why ride on a normal personal watercraft when you could go extreme? Brent Rose splashes and crashes the Seabreacher and Jetovator, two of the wildest watercraft on the market.

## What Happens When You Put A Tesla Motor In An Old Honda?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/what-happens-when-you-put-a-tesla-motor-in-an-old-honda/
Last updated: 2018-07-17T05:32:29+00:00

What Happens When You Put A Tesla Motor In An Old Honda?

## Google is working on a way to separate the audio from two people
URL: https://hight3ch.com/google-is-working-on-a-way-to-separate-the-audio-from-two-people/
Last updated: 2018-07-17T05:32:04+00:00

Google is working on a way to separate the audio from two people who are talking over each other. So far it’s going… okay.

## Headset Allows You To Control Lights With Your Brain
URL: https://hight3ch.com/headset-allows-you-to-control-lights-with-your-brain/
Last updated: 2018-07-17T04:32:19+00:00

Business Insider was given the chance to control lights using nothing but the activity of our brains. We wore a headset that uses a method of recording electrical activity in the brain called Electroencephalography (EEG). Certain actions triggered different brain frequencies, like by opening our eyes, we were able to make the lights blue. This represents increased activity in the brain.

## German Scientists Just Tested NASA’s EM Drive… Does It Work Now?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/german-scientists-just-tested-nasas-em-drive-does-it-work-now/
Last updated: 2018-07-15T02:41:58+00:00

Further testing of the EM Drive provides the latest update on the controversial device, but what does this change the future of space travel?

## What If A Digital Afterlife Was Created?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/what-if-a-digital-afterlife-was-created/
Last updated: 2018-07-15T02:39:26+00:00

Religious folk believe in a god or re-incarnation, which of course is a nice thought. But what if such a life was available to all through technological advancements, would you willingly sign up for it? And how would the rest of the world respond to its creation?

## We produce 13 tons of hazardous waste every second
URL: https://hight3ch.com/we-produce-13-tons-of-hazardous-waste-every-second/
Last updated: 2018-07-15T02:23:57+00:00

Most homes across America have a stash of chemical cleaners under the sink that becomes hazardous waste as soon as you’re done using them. And some of the household products don’t even make it out of the store, as retailers often get rid of sticky, dented, and forgotten bottles. Those

## Machine Pours Concrete Perfectly
URL: https://hight3ch.com/machine-pours-concrete-perfectly/
Last updated: 2018-07-13T05:14:00+00:00

The 5700-C machine by PowerCurber pours concrete into perfect shapes and lines. The machine is designed to make curbs, gutters, sidewalks, and barrier walls. If conditions are good, the device can pour as much as 1,000 linear feet per hour.

## 5 Cool Kitchen Gadgets Everyone Needs
URL: https://hight3ch.com/5-cool-kitchen-gadgets-everyone-needs/
Last updated: 2018-07-13T05:06:08+00:00

5 Cool Kitchen Gadgets Everyone Needs

## Ten ways gene editing will transform the world
URL: https://hight3ch.com/ten-ways-gene-editing-will-transform-the-world/
Last updated: 2018-07-13T05:03:52+00:00

Chinese scientists create modified dogs by genetic engineering. U.S. scientists have genetically modified human embryos. Britain experiment may one day lead to genetically modified humans.

## Why graphene hasn’t taken over the world…yet
URL: https://hight3ch.com/why-graphene-hasnt-taken-over-the-world-yet/
Last updated: 2018-07-12T18:01:23+00:00

Graphene is a form of carbon that could bring us bulletproof armor and space elevators, improve medicine, and make the internet run faster — some day. For the past 15 years, consumers have been hearing about this wonder material and all the ways it could change everything. Is it really almost here, or is it another promise that is perpetually just one more breakthrough away?

## The Insane Logistics of Formula 1
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-insane-logistics-of-formula-1/
Last updated: 2018-07-11T04:04:28+00:00

Formula 1 is one special competition and it is not all about the humans.

## Your Next Computer Chip Could Be Made of Gallium Oxide
URL: https://hight3ch.com/your-next-computer-chip-could-be-made-of-gallium-oxide/
Last updated: 2018-07-11T03:55:18+00:00

A new material may be coming for ‘Silicon Valley’ as researchers are looking towards gallium oxide to produce faster computer chips than ever before.

## Bees can understand zero. Can you?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/bees-can-understand-zero-can-you/
Last updated: 2018-07-11T03:53:40+00:00

Zero is a mysterious and powerful number. Let’s not take it for granted.

## Mysterious Pentagon Video Shows UFO on the East Coast!
URL: https://hight3ch.com/mysterious-pentagon-video-shows-ufo-on-the-east-coast/
Last updated: 2018-07-11T03:52:59+00:00

In March 2018 the US Pentagon release a video showing what appears to be a UFO on the East Coast! The newly declassified footage shows a mysterious encounter between a military jet and an unidentified flying object. The video was taken in 2015, but only release this year to the “To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science” for further research. Not only was it flying at super-fast speeds and exhibiting extremely high temperatures, it lacked any features of a modern aircraft! Was this an alien spaceship on Earth?

## Chainless bicycle design
URL: https://hight3ch.com/chainless-bicycle-design/
Last updated: 2018-07-10T02:27:15+00:00

I have seen these before but this one is really well made.

## 6 Times Scientists Radically Misunderstood the World
URL: https://hight3ch.com/6-times-scientists-radically-misunderstood-the-world/
Last updated: 2018-07-10T01:05:16+00:00

Science has come a long way in understanding how our universe works and that road has been full of wrong turns and dead ends. Here are 6 scientific explanations that turned out to be way off track.

## Tokyo – Earth’s Model Megacity
URL: https://hight3ch.com/tokyo-earths-model-megacity/
Last updated: 2018-07-08T14:48:23+00:00

Tokyo is the most successful metropolis in the history of the world with 39 million residents, 50% more people than any other urban area. It is the safest big city on the planet and has a two trillion dollar GDP–an economy larger than all but eight entire countries.

## Breaking a Vacuum Chamber Under Water
URL: https://hight3ch.com/breaking-a-vacuum-chamber-under-water/
Last updated: 2018-07-06T01:56:36+00:00

What happens when you break a glass vacuum chamber under water? Today we’re creating a small vacuum in a soda bottle and finding out!

## Dumbest Possible Way To Try To Remove A Car Engine
URL: https://hight3ch.com/dumbest-possible-way-to-try-to-remove-a-car-engine/
Last updated: 2018-07-06T01:56:07+00:00

If you’re out to destroy your Jeep, why not tie a big rope around the engine, anchor it to a tree and drive the jeep off a top speed until it reaches the end of the rope.

## Guys Made a Powerful Nerf Bazooka
URL: https://hight3ch.com/guys-made-a-powerful-nerf-bazooka/
Last updated: 2018-07-06T01:49:45+00:00

This Offensively Powerful NERF Bazooka Is One Of Our Childhood Dreams, Realized

## Can We Really Have Stealth Helicopters When They’re So Loud?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/can-we-really-have-stealth-helicopters-when-theyre-so-loud/
Last updated: 2018-07-05T03:49:07+00:00

Can helicopters be quiet as a mouse or is the technology so secret because it’s not real? and riding a helicopter is always going to be loud. Find out how this technology works and how close are we to the stealth helicopter reality.

## Are there universal expressions of emotion?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/are-there-universal-expressions-of-emotion/
Last updated: 2018-07-05T03:39:46+00:00

The 40 or so muscles in the human face can be activated in different combinations to create thousands of expressions. But do these expressions look the same and communicate the same meaning around the world regardless of culture? Is one person’s smile another’s grimace?

## 3 Weird Stars You Can See with the Naked Eye
URL: https://hight3ch.com/3-weird-stars-you-can-see-with-the-naked-eye/
Last updated: 2018-07-05T03:38:59+00:00

These three stars can easily be seen with the naked eye, but it took some fancy telescopes for us to realize how weird they really are!

## Watching for Nuclear Attack at the Top of the World
URL: https://hight3ch.com/watching-for-nuclear-attack-at-the-top-of-the-world/
Last updated: 2018-07-03T04:01:40+00:00

In the far north of Canada sit the DEW Line stations: “Distant Early Warning”. Built in the 1950s, these were the sites that would have sounded the alarm if the Soviet Union ever attacked North America. Or at least, they were until they went obsolete just a few years later.

## Disney Imagineering has created autonomous robot stunt doubles
URL: https://hight3ch.com/disney-imagineering-has-created-autonomous-robot-stunt-doubles/
Last updated: 2018-06-29T01:44:32+00:00

The robot acrobats can flip through the air and stick a landing every time

## Pulling a Car with a Paper Towel Rope
URL: https://hight3ch.com/pulling-a-car-with-a-paper-towel-rope/
Last updated: 2018-06-28T01:06:41+00:00

Is it possible to make rope from paper towel, and is that rope strong enough to pull a car? Today we’re finding out!

## Reality+ : A Sci-fi Short Film
URL: https://hight3ch.com/reality-a-sci-fi-short-film/
Last updated: 2018-06-28T00:59:02+00:00

In a near future, the brain chip ‘Reality+’ acts on your sensory perceptions and allows you to see yourself with the perfect physique you’ve always dreamed of. All the people equipped with the chip can see your new appearance and you can see theirs, but the chip can only be activated for 12 hours a day…

## Device Lets You Control Video Games Hands-Free
URL: https://hight3ch.com/device-lets-you-control-video-games-hands-free/
Last updated: 2018-06-28T00:46:02+00:00

The Bcon is a hands-free video game controller that gives users an extra input channel for character movements. It can be used to move characters around, change stances, or perform in-game actions. The controller also offers a creative solution for impaired gamers who may not be able to use a standard controller.

## What Do ‘Natural’ and ‘Artificial’ Flavors Really Mean?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/what-do-natural-and-artificial-flavors-really-mean/
Last updated: 2018-06-28T00:38:42+00:00

What does it actually mean when your snack cake has “naturally flavored” on the package?

## Watching 1377 Skids Fall Like Dominoes Is Satisfying
URL: https://hight3ch.com/watching-1377-skids-fall-like-dominoes-is-satisfying/
Last updated: 2018-06-24T01:51:18+00:00

Call them pallets or skids they fall like dominoes and are oddly soothing to watch. 

## 1970 Lancia Stratos HF Zero Concept
URL: https://hight3ch.com/1970-lancia-stratos-hf-zero-concept/
Last updated: 2018-06-24T01:33:12+00:00

1970 Lancia Stratos HF Zero Concept – Start Up Sound, and Driving.

## Demonstrations of DARPA’s Ground X-Vehicle Technologies
URL: https://hight3ch.com/demonstrations-of-darpas-ground-x-vehicle-technologies/
Last updated: 2018-06-24T01:24:59+00:00

DARPA’s Ground X-Vehicle Technologies (GXV-T) program aims to improve mobility, survivability, safety, and effectiveness of future combat vehicles without piling on armor. The demonstrations featured here show progress on technologies for traveling quickly over varied terrain and improving situational awareness and ease of operation.

## Inside the RFID Stickers from a Chinese Cashier-less Store
URL: https://hight3ch.com/inside-the-rfid-stickers-from-a-chinese-cashier-less-store/
Last updated: 2018-06-22T02:51:13+00:00

We randomly found a cashier-less, employee-less convenience store in Yiwu, China, and of course we had to try it out.

## Two Vortex Rings Colliding
URL: https://hight3ch.com/two-vortex-rings-colliding/
Last updated: 2018-06-21T05:20:46+00:00

Fluid dynamics are interesting and still somewhat mysterious. 

## How Does Religion Manifest in Your Brain?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-does-religion-manifest-in-your-brain/
Last updated: 2018-06-21T02:52:52+00:00

Neurotheologists are discovering new information that suggests that religion and science may have more in common than we think.

## NASA Actually Helped Save The World — Here’s How
URL: https://hight3ch.com/nasa-actually-helped-save-the-world-heres-how/
Last updated: 2018-06-21T02:43:21+00:00

NASA literally saved us from a planet-wide apocalypse in the 1980’s. If they hadn’t noticed a huge problem in our atmosphere, life on Earth would have collapsed by the year 2065.

## Which Life Form Really Dominates Earth?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/which-life-form-really-dominates-earth/
Last updated: 2018-06-21T02:37:09+00:00

Are humans really Earth’s most dominant species? Let’s put all of the planet’s living things on a scale and see what has amassed the most mass. This week we break down the concept of “biomass” to judge Earth’s living things from top to bottom, and see how humans have changed the world.

## How Much Acceleration Can the Human Body Take?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-much-acceleration-can-the-human-body-take/
Last updated: 2018-06-20T03:38:49+00:00

Humans want to reach the super speeds for travel across the globe or even other planets, but how much force can our bodies handle?

## Artist Christo’s Larger than Life Sculptures
URL: https://hight3ch.com/artist-christos-larger-than-life-sculptures/
Last updated: 2018-06-20T03:18:58+00:00

Christo is an artist known for his larger than life installations that temporarily disrupt urban landscapes. He funds each project himself – from start to finish – so that his public art is available for free and to all. His latest installation, the ‘London Mastaba’ is a floating sculpture that will float on The Serpentine lake until September 23.

## Research at NVIDIA: Transforming Standard Video Into Slow Motion with AI
URL: https://hight3ch.com/research-at-nvidia-transforming-standard-video-into-slow-motion-with-ai/
Last updated: 2018-06-20T02:47:12+00:00

Researchers from NVIDIA developed a deep learning-based system that can produce high-quality slow-motion videos from a 30-frame-per-second video, outperforming various state-of-the-art methods that aim to do the same.

## Freezing 200,000 Tons of Lethal Arsenic Dust
URL: https://hight3ch.com/freezing-200000-tons-of-lethal-arsenic-dust/
Last updated: 2018-06-19T02:10:54+00:00

Giant Mine sits near Yellowknife, in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Once it was a productive gold mine, but after the gold ran out, the mining company went bankrupt and left the government to clean up the mess: enough arsenic trioxide dust to kill everyone on Earth. The solution: freezing it, at least for now.

## Childhood stress leaves a mark in sperm
URL: https://hight3ch.com/childhood-stress-leaves-a-mark-in-sperm/
Last updated: 2018-06-19T02:07:22+00:00

A study by Tufts University School of Medicine has found that those who had difficult childhoods carry chemical clues to their past in their sperm, and these may be passed down to their sons.

## 13 Medical Procedures Changing The Health World
URL: https://hight3ch.com/13-medical-procedures-changing-the-health-world/
Last updated: 2018-06-19T02:05:47+00:00

From improving the design of crutches to revolutionizing face transplants, these 13 medical producers are changing the world of medical health.

## This Quantum ‘Sixth Sense’ Could Allow Birds to Navigate Earth’s Magnetic Field
URL: https://hight3ch.com/this-quantum-sixth-sense-could-allow-birds-to-navigate-earths-magnetic-field/
Last updated: 2018-06-18T04:28:34+00:00

How do migrating birds know where to go? New research suggests “spooky action at a distance” might be involved.

## Inside the International Hunt for the Ghost Particle
URL: https://hight3ch.com/inside-the-international-hunt-for-the-ghost-particle/
Last updated: 2018-06-18T04:24:35+00:00

This mega science experiment wants to solve one of the biggest mysteries in science today: why do we even exist?

## We’re Using Stem Cells to Reverse Baldness and It’s Actually Working
URL: https://hight3ch.com/were-using-stem-cells-to-reverse-baldness-and-its-actually-working/
Last updated: 2018-06-16T04:08:59+00:00

Researchers have found a new way to grow hair using stem cells, and it’s showing some promise for treating baldness.

## How TV gave us the classic soccer ball
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-tv-gave-us-the-classic-soccer-ball/
Last updated: 2018-06-16T04:08:31+00:00

The 2018 World Cup football is a nod back to an iconic design.

## Have You Ever Seen Ice That Looks Like Hair?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/have-you-ever-seen-ice-that-looks-like-hair/
Last updated: 2018-06-13T04:19:26+00:00

I live in Canada and I have never seen this type of ice formation. It is pretty interesting. 

## Aquatic Floating RV
URL: https://hight3ch.com/aquatic-floating-rv/
Last updated: 2018-06-12T16:37:11+00:00

Well these people don’t need to get out of their RV for the rest of their lives.

## Professor Poliakoff inherits an inventors perpetual motion machine
URL: https://hight3ch.com/professor-poliakoff-inherits-an-inventors-perpetual-motion-machine/
Last updated: 2018-06-09T06:00:28+00:00

Perpetual motion machines are not real, let’s get that out of the way forever. 

## Why 350°F is the magic number for baking
URL: https://hight3ch.com/why-350f-is-the-magic-number-for-baking/
Last updated: 2018-06-08T04:03:07+00:00

Turns out there’s a lot of chemistry in cooking.

## How PayPal Scams Every User With Currency Conversion Rates
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-paypal-scams-every-user-with-currency-conversion-rates/
Last updated: 2018-06-07T18:46:19+00:00

If you have ever purchased something online using PayPal and the money you were paying in was not the same as on the website you were paying on. Or if you were withdrawing USD from your PayPal account into another currency such as CAD, then you must know that each time you do that PayPal gives you a conversion rate that is never up to date but always at their benefit. Here is a concrete example: Today, June 6th 2018 I had 1600$ USD sitting in my PayPal account and decided to withdraw it to my Canadian bank account. The

## The Story of Atlantis and How It Changed The World
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-story-of-atlantis-and-how-it-changed-the-world/
Last updated: 2018-06-07T02:56:15+00:00

What if there once was a highly advanced civilization that we all stemmed from? The lost city of Atlantis has been the subject of fascination by many scholars and philosophers. It was first described in Ancient Greek writings by Plato, but in modern day, this story is understood as more of a metaphor. But actually, many ancient civilizations made references to Atlantis – from Ancient Egypt to the vikings to Babylonian texts. Archaeological findings and ancient texts also challenge the validity and timeline of certain historical events. They also hint at possible clues to a lost empire that was lost

## Meet The Father of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
URL: https://hight3ch.com/meet-the-father-of-the-search-for-extraterrestrial-intelligence/
Last updated: 2018-06-07T02:50:56+00:00

Scientists are leaping exponentially closer to finding life beyond Earth. Missions to Mars and Saturn’s moons are prime candidates for finding the first signs of life and NASA can now identify more than 3,500 planets outside our solar system, many with habitable temperatures. That number is quickly growing as space travel technology improves and probes head deeper into the galaxy. Nuclear physicist Taylor Wilson explores one of our civilization’s most perplexing questions: Are we alone?

## Crows Have Funerals Too
URL: https://hight3ch.com/crows-have-funerals-too/
Last updated: 2018-06-06T05:09:57+00:00

Cool way to make crows lose their shit for generations…

## Are athletes really getting faster, better, stronger?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/are-athletes-really-getting-faster-better-stronger/
Last updated: 2018-06-06T05:05:07+00:00

When you look at sporting achievements over the last decades, it seems like humans have gotten faster, better and stronger in nearly every way. Yet as David Epstein points out in this delightfully counter-intuitive talk, we might want to lay off the self-congratulation. Many factors are at play in shattering athletic records, and the development of our natural talents is just one of them.

## Glass Is The Future of Data Storage
URL: https://hight3ch.com/glass-is-the-future-of-data-storage/
Last updated: 2018-06-06T04:31:58+00:00

Engineers have discovered how to make glass an information storage powerhouse.

## How We’ll Control The Weather In 100 Years
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-well-control-the-weather-in-100-years/
Last updated: 2018-06-06T04:28:00+00:00

Climate change can cause dramatic shifts in global temperatures and weather patterns. And while scientists won’t be able to reverse all of the negative impacts of these changes, they are looking for ways to lessen the effects by controlling the weather.

## Rolling Garage Door Mosquito Screen Attaches To Garage Track
URL: https://hight3ch.com/rolling-garage-door-mosquito-screen-attaches-to-garage-track/
Last updated: 2018-06-06T04:21:37+00:00

This is the coolest mosquito screen ever! It attaches right to your garage door track, and even has a sliding door on the center of it, so you can go in and out without having to use a zipper flap door. It fits most garage door sizes, and will finally let you get away from the bugs during the Summer!

## Genius Way to Save Parking Space
URL: https://hight3ch.com/genius-way-to-save-parking-space/
Last updated: 2018-06-05T17:18:12+00:00

Smart Parking will save time and space in areas where parking is much needed. 

## Revolutionary Method to Cure Blindness
URL: https://hight3ch.com/revolutionary-method-to-cure-blindness/
Last updated: 2018-06-04T17:05:13+00:00

Curing Blindness Can Only Take 5 Minutes, Thanks to This Revolutionary Method

## Conveyor Belt Can Move Packages In Any Direction
URL: https://hight3ch.com/conveyor-belt-can-move-packages-in-any-direction/
Last updated: 2018-06-04T17:04:39+00:00

Celluveyor is an omnidirectional conveyor belt that consists of small hexagonal cells capable of moving products in any direction. Operators set a product’s course by using special software installed on a tablet. The conveyor belt is most suited for smart warehouses and assembly lines.

## The Town That Was Burned for Science: Aultsville
URL: https://hight3ch.com/the-town-that-was-burned-for-science-aultsville/
Last updated: 2018-06-04T17:04:06+00:00

The St Lawrence Burns were a series of deliberate fires in the soon-to-be-demolished village of Aultsville, Ontario, which was due to be flooded to make way for the St Lawrence Seaway. The results changed the way buildings are constructed around the world, and saved lives.

## How noise pollution is ruining your hearing
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-noise-pollution-is-ruining-your-hearing/
Last updated: 2018-06-04T17:03:39+00:00

Our ears are exposed to dangerous levels of noise every single day.

## Leaked US Military Report: Unidentified Flying Object “Rendezvoused” With Something Huge Under The Ocean
URL: https://hight3ch.com/leaked-us-military-report-unidentified-flying-object-rendezvoused-with-something-huge-under-the-ocean/
Last updated: 2018-06-02T03:54:36+00:00

If this does not convince you, I don’t know what will. 

## New Genetic Clues to the Mystery of Your Giant Brain
URL: https://hight3ch.com/new-genetic-clues-to-the-mystery-of-your-giant-brain/
Last updated: 2018-06-02T03:23:29+00:00

Big-brained scientists have found the mechanism that may have allowed their brains (and all humans’) to get so big.

## Do Placebos Work For Animals?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/do-placebos-work-for-animals/
Last updated: 2018-06-01T04:42:47+00:00

Yes, Weirdly Enough…

## Finally a Drone That Can Follow You
URL: https://hight3ch.com/finally-a-drone-that-can-follow-you/
Last updated: 2018-06-01T04:34:13+00:00

Skydio R1 review: It could change drones forever. No tricks. What you’re about to see is real.

## Behind The Scenes Of Time Magazine Cover Made by Drones
URL: https://hight3ch.com/behind-the-scenes-of-time-magazine-cover-made-by-drones/
Last updated: 2018-06-01T04:27:15+00:00

Find out how TIME’s drones cover was shot, using 958 of Intel’s Shooting Star drones.

## Inside the Beach House Connecting the World’s Internet
URL: https://hight3ch.com/inside-the-beach-house-connecting-the-worlds-internet/
Last updated: 2018-06-01T03:51:57+00:00

We visit Denmark and talk to a marine maintenance manager to learn more about how undersea cables are crucial to data transportation.

## Floating an Anvil on Liquid Mercury
URL: https://hight3ch.com/floating-an-anvil-on-liquid-mercury/
Last updated: 2018-05-31T03:05:43+00:00

Just in case you ever wanted to see an anvil float in mercury.

## 10 Theories About The Afterlife
URL: https://hight3ch.com/10-theories-about-the-afterlife/
Last updated: 2018-05-30T02:41:07+00:00

We’ve all wondered what happens to us when we eventually pass on ‘to the other side, but what exactly is there to pass on to? Here are our 10 Theories About The Afterlife…

## Scientists Accidentally Discovered Quark Fusion, Could It Be the Future of Energy?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/scientists-accidentally-discovered-quark-fusion-could-it-be-the-future-of-energy/
Last updated: 2018-05-30T02:35:19+00:00

Quark fusion is ten times stronger than nuclear fusion… theoretically. Could it actually work?

## Interactive Ping Pong Table
URL: https://hight3ch.com/interactive-ping-pong-table/
Last updated: 2018-05-29T05:32:28+00:00

We play TapGlo, a custom-built ping pong table that’s like the intersection of table tennis and the videogame Breakout. The maker of this striking light-up table explains how TapGlo is able to detect where ping pong balls land, and how the panels light up and animate in spectacular fashion.

## If Your Own Number Calls You, Don’t Pick Up And Call the Police
URL: https://hight3ch.com/if-your-own-number-calls-you-dont-pick-up-and-call-the-police/
Last updated: 2018-05-29T05:30:58+00:00

Scammers keep coming up with new and more creative schemes to steal your money or valuable data. If you stay updated on the new phone scam schemes you can protect your money and data from scammers. This new scam has the potential to outsmart all other types of fraud. The Better Business Bureau has already called it the most dangerous phone scam out there! So, if your own number calls you, never ever take the call!

## How Nestle Makes Billions Bottling Free Water – Documentary
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-nestle-makes-billions-bottling-free-water-documentary/
Last updated: 2018-05-29T05:26:15+00:00

How Nestle Makes Billions Bottling Free Water (2018)

## This Massive Asteroid Is Headed for Earth…. What Now?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/this-massive-asteroid-is-headed-for-earth-what-now/
Last updated: 2018-05-29T05:24:41+00:00

This is how NASA intends to stop an asteroid before it slams into our planet, potentially ending civilization as we know it.

## Why people are buying cartoon cats on the blockchain
URL: https://hight3ch.com/why-people-are-buying-cartoon-cats-on-the-blockchain/
Last updated: 2018-05-25T02:23:21+00:00

Every time you send something on the internet, it’s a copy. But using new technology, can we make digital goods that are… rare? That’s the question behind CryptoKitties, a new game to buy, breed, and sell digital cats on the blockchain. These cats are more similar to real-world collectibles like beanie babies or baseball cards than they are to cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin or Ethereum. In just the last few months, a whole community of third party sites and services has formed around CryptoKitties. And fans have spent more than $23 million playing along. All of this is made possible by

## Why Are Self-Driving Cars Taking So Long?
URL: https://hight3ch.com/why-are-self-driving-cars-taking-so-long/
Last updated: 2018-05-25T02:13:11+00:00

Self-driving cars have been “coming soon” for years. What’s so hard about making a machine that drives itself!?

## Why Quantum Information is Never Destroyed
URL: https://hight3ch.com/why-quantum-information-is-never-destroyed/
Last updated: 2018-05-24T01:03:18+00:00

If you have perfect knowledge of every single particle in the universe, can you use the laws of physics to rewind all the way back to the Big Bang? Is the entire history of the universe perfectly knowable? Or has information somehow lost along the way?

## That Time It Rained for Two Million Years
URL: https://hight3ch.com/that-time-it-rained-for-two-million-years/
Last updated: 2018-05-23T02:42:05+00:00

At the beginning of the Triassic Period, with the continents locked together from pole-to-pole in the supercontinent of Pangea, the world is hot, flat, and very, very dry. But then 234 million years ago, the climate suddenly changed for the wetter.

## How Cops Are Using Algorithms to Predict Crimes
URL: https://hight3ch.com/how-cops-are-using-algorithms-to-predict-crimes/
Last updated: 2018-05-23T02:17:55+00:00

The LAPD is one of a growing number of police departments using algorithms to try to predict crimes before they happen. Proponents of these tools say they provide cops with added tools to keep their cities safe — but critics argue it’s just another form of profiling.

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