Have you ever heard of tractor pulling? Popular in midwestern and southern states, powerful tractors pull a giant weight through the dirt and mud. Whoever pulls it the furthest the fastest wins. Now, that may sound basic, but the tech that goes into making these tractors is pretty incredible. These aren't the kind of machines you'll see plowing a field.

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Asteroids are one of the most mysterious objects in our solar system. These oblong balls of rock circle the sun in strange, non-circular orbits and occasionally crash into other planets. One spacecraft had a mission to discover more about asteroids by landing on one, collecting samples and sending those samples back to Earth. Now the question is, what did we learn from these samples?

Driving at night, you might notice stop signs reflect your headlights back at you. It's not because they're made of shiny metal. Stop signs and other road markers are covered in retroreflectors. The technology behind them is simple yet incredible — and it's used for much more than making road signs visible at night.

Over the last decade the theft of catalytic converters from vehicles is up over 50%. This, in part, is because the precious metals that go into making these components are more expensive. But the real reason catalytic converters are so valuable goes back millions of years when these metals were formed in the heart of a neutron star.

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