One big question
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Will virtual reality ever kill off TV the way MP3 players and music streaming did CDs? This week our One Big Question series asks "The New Normal" conference host Frank Radice that very question.
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As part of our regular "One Big Question" series, asked transportation engineer Steven Shladover from UC Berkeley if the advent of driverless cars means that kids being born today will never need to learn how to drive. Here's what he said.
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All of the smartphones bursting into flames these days has us thinking about batteries. Specifically, we were wondering if the need to periodically discharge cell phone batteries to keep them conditioned is really necessary. So, as part of our regular One Big Question series, we asked an expert.
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New Atlas asks Peter Murphy from the University of South Australia a single question as part of our regular One Big Question series: What goes into making a color-changing military tank?
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As part of our One Big Question series, we got in touch with Edward Maibach from George Mason University’s Center for Climate Change and asked: Despite the evidence, why do some people react so vehemently against the idea that rapid, human induced global warming is an actual phenomenon?
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Earlier this year, a giant cable was laid between Japan and the United States to deliver 60 Terabits per second (Tbps) of bandwidth under the Pacific. As part of our One Big Question series, we asked Kenichi Yoneyama of NEC for more details on how the giant cord was installed.
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As part of our regular weekly feature, New Atlas asked two of the HI-SEAS mission participants what their biggest positive and negative surprises were from living in close quarters with other people for a full year in an effort to see what early human life might be like on Mars.
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We recently reported on a theory that says the Big Bang might have been prevented by the laws of quantum mechanics. As part of our "One Question" series, we asked theoretical physicist Steffen Gielen to help us understand more.
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We recently reported on heart structures 3D-printed in a weightless environment. For the first of a regular new feature, we asked one of the company’s chief scientist what was the single biggest impediment to having lab-grown organs available right now. Here’s what he had to say.