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Jun 5 When Bell Labs engineer Karl Jansky pointed a rotating antenna at the sky in 1932 looking for sources of transatlantic… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 5 The colour magenta does not exist anywhere in the spectrum of visible light, and your brain manufactures it on the spot… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 5 When Harvard astronomer Cecilia Payne submitted her 1925 doctoral thesis arguing that the Sun was made almost entirely… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 5 When Edme Mariotte stared at marks on a wall in the 1660s, one mark vanished inside a six-degree hole where the optic… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 5 When seismic waves from the Chicxulub impact reached what is now North Dakota roughly ten minutes after the asteroid… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 5 On 28 May 2009, Google demoed a product called Wave on stage at I/O for 80 minutes and got a standing ovation from… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 5 When Clair Patterson set out in 1948 to measure the age of the Earth using lead in meteorites, his samples kept coming… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 4 The IBM 305 RAMAC stayed in production until 1961, weighed more than a ton, stored five million characters on fifty… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 4 In 1977, Ann Druyan recorded an hour of her brainwaves and heartbeat two days after she and Carl Sagan agreed to marry… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 4 Every Apollo guidance computer that flew to the Moon had its software literally woven by hand at a Raytheon factory… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 4 When Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko landed a top-secret MiG-25 at a Japanese airport in September 1976, American engineers… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 4 When survivors near Lake Nyos woke on the morning of 22 August 1986, the cattle were dead in the fields, the birds had… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 4 In 1959, a Soviet research team in Novosibirsk began breeding silver foxes for nothing but tameness, and within forty… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 4 In October 2002, a Russian scientist named Dimitri Malashenkov stood up at a space conference in Houston and quietly… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 4 In May 2017, an NSA contractor named Reality Winner mailed a printed classified document to a news outlet, and federal… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 2 In August 2006, naturalists Chris Atkins and Michael Taylor waded into a remote grove in Redwood National Park and… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 2 Inside a six-walled wedge-foam chamber on Microsoft's Redmond campus, the background sound is so far below human… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 2 Psychology suggests people who browse social media but never post or comment aren’t passive Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 2 In 1964, IBM risked its entire corporate empire on the System/360, a chaotic gamble to make all of its future machines… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 2 In 1982, a Soviet pipeline suddenly exploded with the force of a tactical nuclear weapon, and the disaster was traced… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team