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Explore science, technology and extraordinary stories through clear explanations, original sources and careful questions.
Explore the MiG-25 Foxbat’s speed, engineering compromises and Cold War intelligence story, including Viktor Belenko’s 1976 defection to Japan.
Photo: Dmitry A. Mottl · CC BY-SA 4.0; full credit in article.
From crash-scene mapping and black boxes to laboratory tests: how investigators reconstruct aircraft accidents, with a directory of major investigation authorities.
Compare nuclear fission and fusion, uranium and thorium fuel cycles, deuterium–tritium and hydrogen–boron, plus what Australia’s HB11 research has demonstrated.
How aircraft black boxes preserve cockpit audio and flight data, how underwater searches work, and how investigators turn recordings into evidence.
Explore the pressure, darkness and engineering challenges of the deep ocean, from tethered research robots to life around hydrothermal vents.
The 1958 experiment tested a striking idea about Earth’s magnetic field. Creating trapped radiation and building a useful defence shield were different questions.
A dramatic documentary question deserves a careful distinction between a sighting, a system anomaly and proof of outside control.
