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Utility poles: what they are and how they work

By: Lucas Montes, Journalist

Utility poles. You've likely seen them on a walk or while you're playing outside, and you may have thought to yourself, "Where does that pole get electricity from?" Or, "How does that thing work?" I will be covering that today, and our journey starts at a power plant. Power lines power everything we know, just to name a few: light poles, our homes, and buildings near us.

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How Simple Circuits Work

By: Simrin Puri, Journalist

Explore the en-LIGHT-ening world of electricity! Read about electric circuits and how they work.

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Cold Fusion, And How To Use It

By: Marcus Ryan, Journalist

Fusion is the process of taking to atoms, and smashing them together so much that they make a new element and in doing so, releasing huge amounts of energy. The sun produces energy constantly, and it does so by fusion.

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Electricity Generating Table

By: Meg Lagera, Journalist

In many places such as India and Africa, a simple daily necessity, electricity, is lacked of. Ashutosh Vashishta has created a table that can quickly generate electricity to solve this extreme issue. With this table, he want to help the 23 million homes in India without access to electricity and the rest of the world that lacks of this bare minimum to be able to have the electricity to study and finish their work into the night.

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Newer, Safer, Batteries

By: Tiger Deng, Journalist

A new battery has just been invented. Is the battery industry about to be flipped upside down?

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Heliogen: The Future of Renewable Energy

By: Victor Cao, Journalist

Fossil fuels are by far the greatest contributor to global warming, accounting for over 75% of global greenhouse gas emissions. The sun has enough energy to power the entire world if it is evenly distributed.

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What Happens When You Get Electrocuted

By: Ali Iskandar, Journalist

You may have wondered what happens to your body when you get electrocuted, well...

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How we Built a Two Bulb Flashlight

By: Izaak Shaker and Bennett Ross

Instead we decided to 3-D print our shell (outer part), because with the two bulb design, a normal flashlight shell wouldn't allow us to fit everything. Finally, we take the wire that is attached to the battery holder (the side that has a bump), and we solder that wire to the other side of the diode that has the resistor attached to it.

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