Science & Engineering
July 2026
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Universe
A single lake in Siberia is so deep it holds more liquid fresh water than all the…
Universe
The bright nitrogen ice plain forming the left lobe of Pluto's heart has not a…
Human Factors
Quote of the day: “A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars
Government
In 1948 Costa Rica did something almost no state has ever done voluntarily
Earth & Life
Singapore has almost no fresh water of its own and buys much of it under a deal…
Earth & Life
In 2020 scientists tracking a beaked whale logged a dive that seemed physically…
Political Economy
In 1945 Japan lay flattened and starving, yet within a single generation its…
Science & Engineering
The deep cobalt Neptune everyone recognises is largely an artefact of image…
Science & Engineering
Ultra-processed foods now make up almost sixty percent of what the average American…
Science & Engineering
You would expect astronauts to shrug off something as ordinary as plain travel…
Human Factors
In eighteenth-century Britain a single pineapple could cost the equivalent of…
Science & Engineering
There's a group of seventeen obscure metals called the rare earths, tucked inside…
Human Factors
The blade that lay against King Tut's mummy for three thousand years turned out to…
Human Factors
Jet pilots had a word for the feeling of coming loose from the earth at high…
Science & Engineering