Walk down essentially any commercial street in essentially any Japanese city on essentially any weekday evening in 2026 and you will pass at least one building…
The single most-commercially-consequential invention of the late-20th-century Japanese consumer electronics sector was popularised by a self-described mediocre…
Approximately 26 years after the small dog-shaped robots went on sale, the ones that stopped working are being given Buddhist funerals at a rural temple in Chiba Prefecture.
The most beloved fusion cuisine in modern South American gastronomy was invented by the survivors of one of the more brutal indentured-labour systems of the 19th century.
The 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, which nearly destroyed the Korean economy, is the specific reason that essentially every listener of contemporary global pop…
Stalin had expected to reach Helsinki in two weeks. He never reached it. The specific mechanism by which a country of approximately 3.7 million people…
The peaceful separation of one European country from another by referendum, in the specific autumn of 1905 during which the substantial majority of European…
The first time human beings ever watched two objects hit each other in space was in July 1994, and the observation happened almost by accident because a…
In 1851 Léon Foucault hung a heavy bob on a long wire under the dome of the Panthéon and set it swinging. Its path slowly rotated, the first plain, direct sign anyone could watch of the Earth turning on its axis. It does not, though, turn once a day everywhere.
Do a few small kind things on a bad day, and the day may sting less. That is the plain finding of a 2016 study in Clinical Psychological Science.
A planet just 25 light-years away, already known to sit in the narrow band where liquid water could exist, has been reassessed by astronomers led by the University of California, Irvine.
The cash-and-stock agreement, valued at about $8 billion and expected to close in mid-2027, would turn the launch company into a vertically integrated operator of its own communications constellation.
The Novo Nordisk Foundation controls 77% of the voting power in the maker of Ozempic through A-shares that have never been traded and legally cannot be sold — making a Copenhagen charity the permanent, unsellable owner of one of Europe's most valuable companies.
The stars inside a faint galaxy called DF9 drift so slowly that its whole mass matches its visible stars alone. It is the third dark-matter-poor galaxy found strung along one narrow trail in the same patch of sky.
The island is called La Gomera. It sits in the Atlantic Ocean approximately 300 kilometres off the west coast of Morocco, in the western half of the Canary Islands archipelago.
East Antarctica can look, from above, like the quiet half of the frozen continent: old, thick, cold and buried under kilometres of ice.
