Science & Engineering
A brain-computer interface has, for the first time, restored fluent everyday speech…
Casey Harrell can now talk for twelve hours at a stretch. Two years ago, he could not talk at all.
Science & Engineering
Intelligence agencies are harvesting encrypted data now in case future quantum…
Somewhere in a windowless data centre, in a country that may or may not be your own, a server is quietly storing a copy of every encrypted email you have ever…
Human Factors
A seismic wave from Japan's 2011 magnitude-9 earthquake travelled nearly 2,900…
For 15 years after the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake — among the most thoroughly instrumented natural disasters in history — a small anomaly in the GPS data sat unresolved in the archives.
Science & Engineering
The dust in your home is not just dirt — it is a mixture of skin, fabric, pollen…
Look at a windowsill after a week without cleaning and you are looking at a material document.
Human Factors
A self-taught Russian amateur astronomer named Filipp Romanov has been finding…
The discovery happened on a Sunday evening. On 15 February 2026, Filipp Romanov was at his laptop in his grandparents' old house in Yuzhno-Morskoy, a coastal…
Human Factors
A 43,000-year-old stone roughly the size of a potato, found in a rock shelter in…
The story of the stone begins, like many archaeological stories, with a moment of mild astonishment at the bottom of an excavation trench.