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September 2026

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Kishi Station in Wakayama Prefecture was destaffed in April 2006 to cut costs, then handed over the following year to a calico cat wearing a custom-made stationmaster's cap — passenger numbers, which had fallen to about 1.9 million a year, began climbing again within months

By Make Tech Easier Editorial · Sep 4, 2026

The ROICE program at the University of Houston started in 2022 as a thought experiment about what to do with thousands of dead Gulf oil wells, pipelines and platforms — four years later it received about $800,000 to turn that thinking into commercial repurposing plans

By Make Tech Easier Editorial · Sep 3, 2026

Voyager 1 crossed into interstellar space in August 2012 and still transmits from more than 24 billion kilometres away on about 22 watts, less power than a fridge bulb, with each signal taking over 22 hours to reach Earth

By Make Tech Easier Editorial · Sep 2, 2026

How did a phone game released in July 2016 briefly double foot traffic to small businesses near landmarks, and why did the effect fade within eight weeks?

By Make Tech Easier Editorial · Sep 1, 2026