Human Factors
May 2026
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Universe
There is a region of space called the Boötes void, around 330 million light years…
Human Factors
The Great Pyramid of Giza is described as one of the world's oldest landmarks, but…
Human Factors
The Library of Ashurbanipal in Nineveh burned down in 612 BC, but because its…
Human Behaviour
Frances Glessner Lee, a wealthy heiress in the 1940s, built 20 dollhouse-sized…
Science & Engineering
The Antikythera mechanism, pulled from a Greek shipwreck in 1901, was a…
Universe
In the year 1054 a star exploded so brightly that Chinese astronomers recorded it…
Constellations
The surface of the Sun is around 5,500 degrees, but its outer atmosphere is more…
Universe
Astronomers have found a cloud of water vapour around a distant quasar holding…
Science & Engineering
More than 2,200 years ago a librarian in Egypt measured the circumference of the…
Science & Engineering
Mount Everest is the highest point above sea level, but because the Earth bulges at…
Science & Engineering
Between five and six million years ago, the Mediterranean Sea nearly dried out
Asia News
There is a Japanese word, mottainai, that carries the sense of regret over…
Deep Space
NASA's next major space telescope, the Nancy Grace Roman, is expected to find…
Universe
The James Webb Space Telescope has just captured the first direct measurement of a…
Science & Engineering