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• 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
• Jul 22, 2026 When you delete a file, the data itself stays on the disk untouched + Tech Explained
• Jul 22, 2026 The Apollo guidance computer that landed astronauts on the Moon ran on 64 kilobytes of memory, and its programs were… + Tech Explained
• Jul 21, 2026 In July 2026, Psy’s Gangnam Style passed six billion YouTube views, fourteen years after its horse-riding dance became… + Internet
• Jul 21, 2026 Your phone does not actually know how much battery it has left + Tech Explained
• Jul 21, 2026 Each year, roughly 27.7 million tonnes of dust lift off the Sahara, cross the Atlantic on the trade winds, and fall on… + Lifestyle
• Jul 21, 2026 The GPS satellites orbiting 20,200 kilometres overhead run their clocks about 38 microseconds faster per day than… + Gadgets