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The world’s brightest engineers, scientists, and builders are solving problems you didn’t know could be solved. From backyard robotics to NASA-grade breakthroughs, these are the people making the impossible look obvious.

Simone Giertz Solves a Four-Year Design Puzzle With a Mechanically Expanding Fruit Bowl

After four years of prototyping, Simone Giertz has completed a working brass fruit bowl that

LIGO Detects 294 Gravitational Waves and Builds a New Sense for Humanity — Inside the Desert Machine That Proved Einstein Right

In September 2015, Advanced LIGO detected its first gravitational wave chirp just three days after

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on AlphaFold, Move 37, and the AI Tools Quietly Reshaping Human Health

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis revealed in a conversation with Cleo Abram how a mid-meeting

Dude Perfect Shatters World Record with Blaster Firing 280 Yards, Nearly Tripling Mark Rober’s Mark

Dude Perfect's custom-built world's biggest blaster launched a projectile 280 yards, more than doubling Mark

Mark Rober Unveils $60 Million Free Science Curriculum Built for Every Teacher on Earth

Mark Rober announced at TED that he and a team of 50 educators have spent

Mark Rober Deploys Drone-Equipped GlitterBomb 5.0 Against Car Thieves in San Francisco — and Shuts Down a $60 Million Fraud Network

Mark Rober deployed the GlitterBomb 5.0 — armed with autonomous drones and a one-liter odor

Mark Rober Drops a Raw Egg From Space and It Survives Intact After Five Attempts and Three Years of Engineering

Mark Rober successfully dropped a raw egg from the edge of space and recovered it

Mark Rober Rides a Moving Train and a Hot Air Balloon to Solve 7 Famous Physics Puzzles

Mark Rober rode atop a moving train and navigated a hot air balloon to physically

Sandtastic Travels Unlocks Atlantis Bahamas Coral Hotel Stay for $78 a Night Using Caesars Rewards Diamond Status

Sandtastic Travels documented a Caesars Rewards Diamond status booking at Atlantis Bahamas Coral Hotel that

Destin Sandlin of SmarterEveryDay Explores the Johari Window and the Blind Spots That Shape How We See Ourselves

Destin Sandlin of SmarterEveryDay devoted episode 314 to the Johari Window, a psychological framework developed