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- May 28, 2026 The Voyager Golden Record has a small sample of uranium electroplated onto its cover, put there so that whoever finds… + Lifestyle
- May 28, 2026 Cognitive scientists have a name for the moment you finish a page and realize you took in none of it, and a Harvard… + Lifestyle
- May 28, 2026 When headlines declared that an MIT study had proven ChatGPT "makes you stupid," the researchers behind it posted a… + Lifestyle
- May 28, 2026 In 1245, London engineers built a massive underground lead pipe to bring fresh water three miles into the heart of the… + Lifestyle
- May 28, 2026 A famous African Grey parrot named Alex became the first and only animal to ever ask an existential question about… + Lifestyle
- May 28, 2026 In 2014, a simple counting glitch known as the "Gangnam Style bug" forced YouTube to completely rewrite its core… + Tech Explained
- May 28, 2026 In the early 1970s, a phone phreak nicknamed "Captain Crunch" became famous for a startling trick + Tech Explained
- May 28, 2026 Sony's PlayStation 2 was so computationally advanced when it launched in 2000 that the government of Iraq reportedly… + Gaming
- May 28, 2026 When General James Mattis joined the Theranos board in 2013, he had already spent a year pushing Elizabeth Holmes's… + Tech Explained
- May 27, 2026 The legendary video game Pac-Man doesn't actually have an ending—instead, a single 8-bit integer overflow bug causes… + Gaming
- May 27, 2026 When Microsoft was developing Windows 95, developers discovered that SimCity had a severe memory bug that caused it to… + Windows
- May 27, 2026 When a massive solar storm hit Earth in 1972, it triggered a series of magnetic fluctuations so severe that it… + Tech Explained
- May 27, 2026 Research suggests the feeling that time speeds up with age can be shaped by fewer temporal landmarks + Lifestyle
- May 27, 2026 In 1982 the Soviet Union landed a probe on the surface of Venus that survived 127 minutes in heat that melts lead and… + Lifestyle
- May 27, 2026 Voyager 1 launched in 1977 with onboard computers holding less memory than a single photo on a modern phone + Lifestyle
- May 27, 2026 Most astronauts are trained for the science of spaceflight, but many come home changed by something nobody can fully… + Lifestyle
- May 27, 2026 People who turn off phone notifications aren’t avoiding connection + Lifestyle
- May 27, 2026 For decades, marine biologists have tracked a lone whale in the North Pacific known as "52 Blue" because it calls at a… + Lifestyle
- May 27, 2026 In 2020, Philipp Heck’s team dated forty presolar grains from Australia’s Murchison meteorite and found stardust as old… + Tech Explained
- May 27, 2026 On 15 September 2017, NASA engineers deliberately steered the Cassini spacecraft into Saturn's atmosphere at 70,000… + Tech Explained