An 11-year-old in Colorado who had been following the Flint water crisis built a prototype lead detector using carbon nanotubes, an Arduino…
Sep 1, 2026
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More than 2.5 kilometres of previously unrecorded pre-Hispanic road, including a zigzagging main road of at least 1.2 kilometres, has been…
Aug 30, 2026
Researchers who followed 1,004 Dutch retirees found that those who had climbed steeply in their careers were less likely to miss their old…
Aug 30, 2026
Retirees in their fifties are much more likely than those in their sixties to consider returning to work, and surveys suggest the…
Aug 29, 2026
For 84 years, textbooks called Gregor Mendel's pea-plant data suspiciously perfect, after a statistician said the numbers were "too good to…
Aug 28, 2026
Steven Spielberg was rejected by USC’s film school because his grades were not good enough
Aug 28, 2026
The Hawthorne effect is named after a pattern in 1920s factory lighting data that nobody checked against the records for eighty years
Aug 28, 2026
Eighteenth-century scholars destroyed hundreds of Herculaneum scrolls trying to prise them open, because the eruption that buried the…
Aug 28, 2026
South Korea led the world in instant-noodle consumption per person from 2013 through 2020, before Vietnam overtook it in 2021 with an…
Aug 28, 2026
The wave of nostalgia that hits right after an awkward conversation isn't you dwelling on the past
By Nato Lagidze · Aug 28, 2026
In 1990, a third of Americans said they had ten or more close friends. By 2021, that was one in eight
By Nato Lagidze · Aug 28, 2026
The New York Times reported that 38 people watched Kitty Genovese be stabbed to death in 1964 and did nothing
Aug 26, 2026