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What If You Spend Just 30 Seconds on the Moon Without a Spacesuit?

Japan's semiconductor story is unique in modern technology and business. Coming out of World War II, the country rapidly gained competence in an emerging technology and became a global leader. In this video, we look at the 30-year rise and peak of the Jap...

The Problem with Solar Energy in Africa

So the Gradient App has a new mode. I decided to see just how many countries of the world I could get using only pictures of myself. Best & Worst Flags of the World

What will the economy of the future look like? To answer that we must first consider the current trajectory and the ways in which modern capitalism operates, who it benefits, and if it is sustainable. In this video, historians, economists, and authors dis...

Every Countries Trading Partner

No other placental mammal that we know of prefers one side of the body so consistently, not even our closest primate relatives. But being right-handed may have deep evolutionary roots in our lineage. And yet, being a leftie does seem to come with some une...

Imagine an enormous, lush rainforest teeming with life...in the Arctic. Well, there was a time -- and not too long ago -- when the world warmed more than any human has ever seen. (So far)

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.

Semiconductor manufacturers Samsung, Intel and Texas Instruments recently announced plans for new chip factories in the U.S. WSJ’s Rob Copeland visits Central Texas to learn why Samsung is moving to the region and what this type of reshoring could mean fo...

Codename Amerikabomber was more than just a top secret nazi aircraft, but infact the first stage in a plan to assult and conqure the united states of america. The inital strategy was to harrasle the population centers of the east coast, diverting US resou...

How This Central African City Became the World’s Most Expensive

Apologies for the final showing of the map, at the end of the video, being a bit too fast!

An aircraft carrier may have more than 5,000 sailors on board. To feed all the sailors on an aircraft carrier, more than 17,000 meals must be prepared daily. There are more than 100 cooks on board, which seems like a culinary miracle, but is it? How are m...

Chopsticks have been the go-to eating utensil in East Asia for the better part of three millennia. But why did they emerge there in the first place and (more importantly) why did they become popular?

A drought in the US state of Texas has unveiled the path of an ancient dinosaur. Footprints from the Acrocanthosaurus, a dinosaur that lived 113 million year...