Essays — Ann Packer's 'The Children,' a story about what parents owe their kids when ideology collides with love. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/01/08/the-children
There's a database of every meteor that hit Earth in the last century... you can filter by location, size, impact speed. Oddly calming to scroll through.
And you thought human dating was complicated! #TEDTalks — Octopus, squid and cuttlefish -- collectively known as cephalopods -- have strange, massive, distributed brains. What do they do with all that neural power? Dive into the ocean with marine biologist Roger Hanlon, who share
Georgia O’Keeffe Ignored Advice to Mimic Great European Masters. Her Goal Instead Was to Be a Great American Painter — The genius of her work was in painting things as she saw them through her own eyes. So when she surrounded herself with beauty, her work reflected it
NASA Concludes Antenna Mishap Investigation, Releases Report — NASA has completed the investigation into the damage sustained last year at its 70-meter radio-frequency antenna, known as the Deep Space Station 14 (DSS-14),
An “Intellectual Monster…” Why Muriel Spark Never Married — High in the Tuscan hills, a light grilling is underway. “Sexually, probably, I could be faithful,” seventy-two-year-old Spark is in the middle of explaining, “though that’s not th…
An Underwater Robot Explores the Hidden 'Shipwreck City' Beneath the Surface of This Popular Urban Lake in the Pacific Northwest — Using a remotely operated vehicle, researchers are exploring a long-overlooked piece of Seattle’s maritime history
Lekcje z przyszłości | Agnieszka Słonecka | TEDxWarsaw — Czy Stanisław Lem opisał tablet, zanim powstał internet? A co, jeśli najlepszych lekcji o przyszłości nie znajdziemy w podręcznikach historii, lecz w literaturze science fiction? Agnieszka Słonecka pokazuje, jak…
www.materials.org - Coming Soon — The science of stuff.
Math, Physics, and Engineering Applets — Physics and math applets galore.
Olympic rower floats like astronaut to test future space gym — Scientists are attempting to build exercise equipment to be used on future space flights.
Would a sleeker Apple Watch design justify losing band compatibility? — The first report of a major new Apple Watch design dates back to 2023, so you probably shouldn’t hold your...
How Did Stonehenge Get Its Altar Stone? New Research Adds to the Debate Between Human Effort and Glacier Transport — Ice flow modeling and geological analyses suggest it's possible that glaciers carried the stone part of the way during the last Ice Age. However, scientists say th
The meaning of ancient burials | John Hawks | TEDxUWMadison — Burial of the dead is one of the clearest archaeological signs of the depth of human emotional and social ties. Investigation of some of the oldest burial evidence hints at the ways these ties connect us with other spe
Where Stock Market Is Headed After Wild Start to Year — US equities have seen their share of peaks and valleys in the first six months of 2026, plunging in March as President Donald Trump launched a war against Iran, and then soaring to new heights through the spring powered by…
Facebook’s Creator Studio has been revived as an AI companion app — Meta says the page management platform shows you ‘exactly what to do next to succeed on Facebook.’
What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week — Maggie O’Farrell’s Land, Thomas W. Laqueur’s The Dog’s Gaze, and Ann Patchett’s Whistler all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book…
A pictorial introduction to differential geometry, leading to Maxwell's equations as three pictures — In this article we present pictorially the foundation of differential geometry which is a crucial tool for multiple areas of physics, notably general and special relativity, but
Keyboard phones went extinct, but these companies just brought them back — There's nothing quite like buttons.
Search for Hidden Cosmic Companions in Sun's Backyard - NASA Science — Now, you can join NASA’s new Backyard Worlds: Binaries project and help astronomers discover these rare and interesting pairs. As a volunteer, you'll inspect
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4927–4933: Let’s Drive to That Smooth Area - NASA Science — By Susanne P. Schwenzer, Professor of Planetary Mineralogy at The Open University, UK
OS9Map | yllan's stories — An OpenStreetMap viewer for Mac OS 9.
OpenAI is teasing new hardware… for Codex — OpenAI is releasing Codex hardware on July 15th.
Geoengineering can thicken Arctic sea ice, but for how long? — Two companies are aiming to preserve Arctic ice by pumping water onto the sheet and letting it freeze, but only one of the trials found that this delayed melting in the summer
Iran says U.S. has denied visas to key World Cup officials — Iran's soccer federation has accused the United States of "vindictive behavior" after saying that visas were refused for "key managerial and administrative members" of its World Cup team.
True Love Will Find You in the End: Kurt Vonnegut on When to Stop Trying and When to Try Again — Climbing the Andes one windy January afternoon, watching peak after peek emerge on the horizon like giant mounds of moss, I found myself wondering about the clear line toward the…
‘Fusogenic’ neurosurgery let paralysed pigs walk again – are we next? — Researchers say a surgery that let pigs with completely severed spinal cords walk again may lead to human trials, and then perhaps even full head or brain transplants. Columnist Helen Thomson is intrigued…
How to Be More Alive: Hermann Hesse on Wonder and the Proper Aim of Education — “While wandering down the path of wonder, I briefly escape the world of separation and enter the world of unity.”
Obsidian and the Birds: An Odyssey of Wonder from the Aztecs to the Quantum World — A recent visit to Teotihuacán — the ancient Mesoamerican city in present-day Mexico, built by earlier cultures around 600 BCE and later rediscovered by the Aztecs — left me wonder-smitt…
CERN’s new chief on the gamble that could fix our picture of reality — Mark Thomson has taken the reins at CERN just as particle physics confronts some of its deepest unknowns – and faces hard choices about what comes next