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How do touchscreens work?
Season 2
Episode 3
How does a touchscreen work? Why can you text with your finger, but not with a q-tip? The physics of smartphones is a complicated and amazing mixture of engineering, physics, electronics and computer science.
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Hawaii is known for its volcanoes, but most volcanoes on earth exist along tectonic plate
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The TRAPPIST-1 exoplanet system has seven earth-like planets.
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Why are plants green? Is there a reason plants evolved to be green, globally?
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How can you time 45 minutes with 2 sticks that each burn for one hour?
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Answers to riddles.
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Check out these physics riddles.
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Create "lightning" in your living room!
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My dad has been hit by lightning twice!
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How fast is the internet? How fast can we send data?
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How can you use an infrared camera to see through walls? To inspect the scene of a crime?
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What happens when you keep building a skyscraper higher and higher?
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The most exciting SciFi movies have tons of space explosions.