Deeper how-tos, history, and tech explainers from the Make Tech Easier editorial team. Pieces here get extra research and review.
In October 2002, a Russian scientist named Dimitri Malashenkov stood up at a space conference in Houston and quietly explained that the dog Laika, whom the Soviet Union had publicly mourned as a heroic week-long orbiter in 1957, had…
Reality Winner was 25 years old, a contractor at an NSA facility in Augusta, Georgia, when she folded a five-page classified…
In August 2006, two naturalists named Chris Atkins and Michael Taylor waded through ferns and fallen branches in a remote corner…
Building 87 on Microsoft's Redmond campus contains a room that registers a background sound level of negative 20.35 decibels, a…
On the morning of November 15, 1988, a Soviet spacecraft named Buran lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, circled the Earth twice, and landed itself on a runway in a snowstorm with crosswinds.
In the spring of 1900, a crew of Symi sponge divers en route to fishing grounds off North Africa were forced to shelter from a storm off the island of Antikythera.
As recently as 2020, updating a Boeing 747-400's navigation database meant a technician boarding the aircraft every 28 days with…
On August 11, 1942, the U.S. Patent Office granted Patent No. 2,292,387 for a "Secret Communication System" to two inventors with unusual day jobs.
Suzanne Simard’s 1997 forest experiment did not show trees whispering to each other.
