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- Jul 27, 2026 How did a Dutch prime minister's 1973 decision to ban cars every Sunday accidentally turn a whole country into the… + Tech Explained
- Jul 24, 2026 In 2026, scientists assembled the Greenland shark’s 5.9-billion-letter genome and examined retinas from animals more… + Tech Explained
- Jul 24, 2026 At 3 gigahertz, a processor has only a third of a nanosecond between clock ticks, enough time for light to travel about… + Tech Explained
- Jul 24, 2026 When Adobe announced Flash's end-of-life in July 2017, it closed a technology that had once run on 99 per cent of… + Tech Explained
- Jul 24, 2026 When Japan’s trade ministry put the PlayStation 2 under export control in April 2000, its 6.2-gigaflop hardware was… + Gaming
- Jul 24, 2026 How did a failed CD deal between Sony and Nintendo in 1991 accidentally create the console that would sell over 100… + Gaming
- Jul 24, 2026 Standard QR codes hide three larger squares in their corners so scanners can orient them from any angle, while their… + Tech Explained
- Jul 24, 2026 In 1911, the Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes cooled a thread of mercury to 4.2 kelvin in a bath of liquid helium… + Tech Explained
- Jul 23, 2026 Red, green and blue became the primary colours on every screen because the human retina carries just three types of… + Tech Explained
- Jul 23, 2026 Inside a modern processor, transistors switch on and off billions of times a second + Tech Explained
- Jul 23, 2026 In 1987, CompuServe engineer Steve Wilhite built GIF around LZW compression and a palette capped at 256 colours for… + Tech Explained
- Jul 23, 2026 How did a single mistyped command by one AWS engineer in February 2017 knock a huge slice of the internet offline for… + Tech Explained
- Jul 23, 2026 The peak of Chimborazo in Ecuador sits about 2,072 metres closer to space than Everest's summit + Lifestyle
- Jul 23, 2026 Wi-Fi doesn't actually slow down when a café gets crowded + Internet
- Jul 23, 2026 In a Milwaukee workshop in the 1870s, Christopher Latham Sholes spent years rearranging the keys of his mechanical… + Tech Explained
- Jul 22, 2026 Ray-finned fishes evolved bioluminescence at least 27 chemistry and others by housing luminous bacteria, a repeated… + Lifestyle
- Jul 22, 2026 The Sun is actually white — the yellow we see is Earth's atmosphere scattering the shorter blue wavelengths away before… + Lifestyle
- Jul 22, 2026 In 1858, engineers laid the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic + Tech Explained
- Jul 22, 2026 In 1988, a 23-year-old Cornell graduate student named Robert Morris released a self-replicating program to measure the… + Internet
- Jul 22, 2026 Noise-cancelling headphones don't block sound, they generate its exact mirror image + Tech Explained