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July 2026
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Science & Engineering
Solar storms puffed up Earth’s upper atmosphere enough to drag a $500 million NASA…
Science & Engineering
The oldest known image of the cosmos is a Bronze Age disc of bronze and gold, dug…
Science & Engineering
The word algebra comes from the title of a book called Al-Jabr, written around the…
Human Factors
Japan's pachinko parlors, at their 1994 peak, generated more revenue every year…
Human Factors
In 1971, a struggling nightclub drummer named Daisuke Inoue built the first karaoke…
Science & Engineering
When Sony released a robotic dog called AIBO in Tokyo in May of 1999, the first…
Human Factors
Between 1849 and 1874, roughly 100,000 Chinese men from Guangdong province were…
Human Factors
After the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis nearly bankrupted South Korea, the government…
Human Factors
After the Soviet Union invaded Finland in the winter of 1939 expecting an easy…
Human Factors
When Norway peacefully separated from Sweden in the autumn of 1905 after 91 years…
Science & Engineering
Over six days in July of 1994, 21 fragments of a comet named Shoemaker-Levy 9…
Science & Engineering
A freely swinging pendulum slowly turns the direction of its swing on its own
Human Factors
Researchers found that on days people did more small kind things for others, the…
Science & Engineering
A world just 25 light-years away sits in the narrow zone where liquid water could…
Space & Missions