Germany’s hover transport was meant to revolutionize movement, but things went horribly wrong. In this video, we examine the design, the ambitious goals, and the catastrophic issues that prevented it ...

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Physics is the search for and application of rules that can help us understand and predict the world around us. Central to physics are ideas such as energy, mass, particles and waves. Physics attempts ...