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The asteroid that ended the dinosaurs happened to strike a shallow seabed rich in sulphur and buried hydrocarbons, throwing soot and aerosols into the sky " and researchers argue the same rock hitting most other places might not have ended their reign.
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There is a spot in the South Pacific so far from any coastline that when the International Space Station passes overhead, the nearest human beings may be the astronauts in orbit " not anyone on land.
5+ hour, 37+ min ago (417+ words) Published May 27, 2026 There is a location in the South Pacific so far from land that, for stretches of any given day, the closest human beings to it are not on the Earth's surface at all. They are the crew of…...
The most distant human-made object in the universe is Voyager 1, currently more than 15 billion miles from Earth " and its plutonium power source is losing about four watts of output every year, meaning sometime around 2030 the spacecraft will quietly stop transmitting forever, ending the longest continuous human conversation ever conducted across cosmic distances
10+ hour, 37+ min ago (294+ words) Voyager 1 was launched from Cape Canaveral on September 5, 1977. The spacecraft was, at the time of launch, designed for a five-year mission to fly past Jupiter and Saturn and return scientific data about the outer planets. Published May 27, 2026 The conversation between…...
For much of human history, survival did not necessarily require a day filled with labour
17+ hour, 7+ min ago (434+ words) Nobody told us to work this much. There's no rule, no law, no biological imperative. By Mal James " Editorial process Published May 27, 2026 Gallup found that full-time US employees reported an average of 42. 9 hours of work per week in 2024, down from…...
When NASA's 77-tonne Skylab station fell out of orbit in 1979 and scattered debris across Western Australia, the Shire of Esperance did the only reasonable thing: it fined the United States $400 for littering.
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Finland has spent decades building a tunnel 430 metres into 1. 9-billion-year-old bedrock to store nuclear waste for 100, 000 years " and the current plan is to seal it, leave no marker, and hope no future civilisation ever finds it
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Voyager 2 flew past Neptune in 1989 and detected faint hints of auroras it couldn't explain " because the magnetic field is tilted 47 degrees off the rotation axis and the auroras were glowing in entirely the wrong place
22+ hour, 37+ min ago (937+ words) Space Daily What the telescope actually saw Webb detected the trihydrogen cation, H3+, in Neptune's upper atmosphere. H3+ is the standard auroral fingerprint used at the other giant planets. It forms when charged particles funnel down magnetic field lines and excite the…...
In the 1980s, an Italian student invented the Pomodoro Technique " the popular timed focus method. He named it after the tomato-shaped kitchen timer sitting on his desk
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Most people are solving the wrong equation " the logic behind why some people compound their effort into results while everyone else stays flat is simple, uncomfortable, and almost never talked about
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (687+ words) In 1963, a physicist and historian of science named Derek J. de Solla Price published a set of lectures delivered at Brookhaven National Laboratory under the title Little Science, Big Science. Published May 26, 2026 In 1963, a physicist and historian of science named Derek…...