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• Jul 21, 2026 When you type an address into a browser, your computer first asks a DNS resolver for the site's IP + Tech Explained
• Jul 21, 2026 Voyager 1 is still transmitting from more than 25 billion kilometres away, powered by less than 250 watts of decaying… + Tech Explained
• Jul 20, 2026 In September 1947, engineers at Harvard pulled a moth from a relay inside the Mark II computer, taped it into the… + Tech Explained
• Jun 27, 2026 If you double-check if the door is locked + Lifestyle
• Jun 27, 2026 Psychology says people who push their chair back in when they leave a table usually display these 9 unique behaviors + Lifestyle
• Jun 15, 2026 When Sony shipped the first Walkman in 1979, chairman Akio Morita insisted on a second headphone jack and a "hotline"… + Tech Explained
• Jun 12, 2026 Russia still custom-builds the Soyuz return seats for ISS crew members using plaster casts taken weeks before launch… + Tech Explained
• Jun 11, 2026 Mycorrhizal fungi colonised plant roots roughly 450 million years ago and biologists now suspect plants could never… + Lifestyle
• Jun 11, 2026 The "CrackBerry" nickname stuck for a reason + Tech Explained
• Jun 10, 2026 Suzanne Simard sealed paper birch and Douglas fir seedlings inside plastic bags, fed them carbon-14 and carbon-13… + Internet
• Jun 10, 2026 A species of jellyfish called Turritopsis dohrnii can revert its adult cells back to a juvenile polyp stage when… + Internet
• Jun 10, 2026 Octopuses possess roughly 500 million neurons distributed across their body, with two-thirds located in their arms… + News
• Jun 10, 2026 The Roman aqueduct at Segovia, built around the first century AD without mortar, still carried water into the 1970s… + News
• Jun 10, 2026 In 1843, Ada Lovelace described a brass-and-punched-card engine that could act on symbols as well as numbers, even… + Tech Explained
• Jun 9, 2026 ARPANET sent its first message on 29 October 1969 from a lab at UCLA to a machine at Stanford, and the message was… + Tech Explained
• Jun 9, 2026 In 1995, Microsoft shipped a cartoon-house interface called Bob, led by Melinda French, who married Bill Gates while it… + Tech Explained
• Jun 9, 2026 The Greenland shark grows about one centimetre a year, does not reach sexual maturity until around age 150, and a… + Tech Explained
• Jun 9, 2026 French scientist Michel Siffre spent two months alone in a cave with no clock, no calendar, and no sunlight + Lifestyle
• Jun 9, 2026 When Apple shipped iOS 12 in June 2018, a small feature called Screen Time slipped onto every iPhone with a counter… + Tech Explained
• Jun 9, 2026 When NASA lost contact with the IMAGE satellite in 2005, an amateur radio operator in Canada named Scott Tilley picked… + Tech Explained