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On August 31, 2026, GPS navigation systems across the United States experienced an unprecedented accuracy drop of up to 33 feet. In this documentary, we explore the science of GPS, how atmospheric anomalies can disrupt radio transmissions, and why this mysterious glitch has scientists scrambling for
At just 14 years old, before he could even drive, one teenager accomplished what most physicists spend their entire careers chasing. By convincing a university physics department to lend him a sub-basement lab, he built a working nuclear fusion reactor. We explore how he did it, the science behind t
Physicists have done the seemingly impossible: they have directly imaged the quantum fluctuations of empty space. For centuries, we believed that a vacuum was a cold, silent, absolute nothingness. But quantum mechanics predicted a chaotic reality—where virtual particles and electromagnetic fields bo