Earth & Environment
Lions had taken the family bull, so an 11-year-old in a Maasai homestead beside Nairobi National Park took apart his mother's radio, wired…
By Brendan Brown · Sep 1, 2026
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Technology
At 458 metres long and drawing nearly 25 metres of water when loaded, Seawise Giant was too enormous for the Suez and Panama canals—or even…
Sep 1, 2026
Earth & Environment
A 15-year-old in British Columbia built a flashlight powered entirely by the temperature difference between a human palm and the…
Sep 1, 2026
Life
The platypus hunts underwater with its eyes, ears and nostrils sealed, detecting the electrical fields produced by its prey’s muscles
Sep 1, 2026
Space
Every sight you have ever seen reached your eyes through an extraordinarily narrow band of electromagnetic radiation, roughly 380 to 700…
Sep 1, 2026
Earth & Environment
New York shut what had been the world’s largest landfill in 2001 after more than 150 million tons of waste had been buried at Fresh Kills
Sep 1, 2026
Life
In 2009, researchers in Japan placed five men individually inside a completely dark room and photographed them with a camera sensitive…
Sep 1, 2026