Before Trinity: How Scientists Braced for the Unknown Power of the First Atomic Bomb
Measuring the Unmeasurable: How Scientists Prepared for the Trinity Nuclear Test
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Inside the Most Frightening Stories of Ghost Ships From History
For centuries, the world’s oceans have yielded a chilling phenomenon: vessels found drifting on the high seas, completely devoid of their crews.
Climate change is set to triple the number of days when the heat index exceeds 105°F across the United States by mid-century, with cascading and potentially dire effects on human health.
This projection comes from peer-reviewed climate modeling that compares future conditions under continued emissions pathways against a late-20th-century baseline (roughly 1971–2000).
Seven cool European beach towns you’ll want to book for next summer
From Belgian beach clubs to Estonia’s secret spa coast, Chris Haslam selects the new summer not-hotspots on Europe’s emerging northern riviera
Beyond Uniformitarianism: What Biology Can Teach Geology
From the uniformity of natural laws to hierarchical emergence
Fedorov’s Election Push: A Dangerous Distraction Playing Right Into Putin’s Hands
Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s popular but recently sacked former defence minister, is demanding wartime elections to fix what he calls a “crisis of governance.” It’s a bold move.
Katrina at 21: The Storm That Never Fully Left
Gary Wainwright wears a frayed red necktie every year on August 29th.
Apple’s Secret Benefactor: How CIA Cash Kept NeXT Alive and Gave Steve Jobs His Second Act
The Cold War Deal That Saved Steve Jobs—and Created the iPhone
Hiking Kyrgyzstan’s Tien Shan: A Trek into the Wild
There are few places where a hiking holiday can make you feel quite so far from the modern world.
The Voyager Program: Half a Century of Interstellar Discovery
Launched in the late summer and early autumn of 1977, NASA’s twin Voyager spacecraft were designed for a four-year “Grand Tour” of Jupiter and Saturn.
The Lost Colony: What Science and History Tell Us About Roanoke
A Governor Returns to Nothing
Mallorca: The Mediterranean’s Island of Infinite Moods
Mallorca is the kind of island that refuses to be reduced to a single postcard.
The City Beneath the City
At 11:47 p.m., Daniel Vale stepped off the last steel staircase and entered a city that did not exist on any map.
The trough beneath Byrd Glacier
A river of ice, wider than Manhattan, moves through a 24-kilometre gap in a mountain range — and the shape of its path was decided half a billion years before the ice arrived.
Fallingwater: Architecture in Suspension
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ode to Organic Design, 1935–1939
Two minutes, eighteen seconds. That’s all it took.
Today, August 12, 2026, at 17:47 UTC, the Moon’s shadow swept across the Earth — starting at sunrise over an empty stretch of Arctic Russia, crossing Greenland, running over Iceland at maximum eclipse, out over open Atlantic, and finally landing near sunset over northern Spain and the Balearic Islands.
The World’s Most Beautiful Airport Landings: 15 Approaches Worth Flying For
There are few travel moments quite as exhilarating as the instant a new destination comes into view beneath the wing.
Sharks are older than wood itself.
Long before the first tree cast the first shadow on land, sharks were already an established, refined design, patrolling oceans on a planet that had not yet invented the forest.