History In 1911, Einstein wrote a letter to Marie Curie, telling her to ignore the haters December 2, 2024
Future This Polish radio station fired all its journalists and replaced them with AI hosts — and people are furious October 30, 2024
Animals People on this small Iceland island are saving baby puffins by tossing them into the ocean September 17, 2024
News The simple Victorian tool that’s still important (and accurate) at weather stations August 20, 2024
News Japan’s Olympic athletes will wear outfits designed to block infrared — and the reason is disturbing June 28, 2024
Health A mother used her EV to power her son’s dialysis machine amid storms and a blackout January 10, 2024
News Astronauts lost the first tomato grown in space. Now, they found it (after 8 months) December 12, 2023
Art Over 100 museums have turned their collections into coloring books — and they’re free to use November 23, 2023
News A door at a Swedish library was accidentally left open — 446 people came in, borrowed 245 books. Every single one was returned November 8, 2023 - Updated on November 9, 2023
Culture & Society Beyond vampires and ghouls: 8 lesser-known ghastly monsters that are perfect for Halloween October 27, 2023
Animals The story of Janus, the two-headed tortoise who can’t fit inside his own shell September 19, 2023 - Updated on September 25, 2023
Archaeology Bake Roman bread with this 2,000-year-old ancient recipe March 4, 2023 - Updated on October 21, 2023
Offbeat This 1912 newspaper article shows we’ve known about climate change for long time February 15, 2023 - Updated on April 29, 2023
Offbeat The US Army Corp of Engineers’ new cat calendar is so bad it’s brilliant January 27, 2023 - Updated on January 29, 2023
Archaeology This ancient, 2,500-year-old love/grief letter is the most romantic thing January 25, 2023
Animals Dutch scientists left a hamster wheel outside. Then, all the animals started playing with it January 13, 2023 - Updated on November 9, 2023
Offbeat An 11-year-old graduated from university with a bachelor’s in physics. He wants to make humans immortal December 14, 2022
Future Over 1000 songs released in China have AI voices. Some have over 100 million streams November 25, 2022 - Updated on May 15, 2023
Offbeat Bizarre cheating scandals are rocking the worlds of chess, poker, fishing, and tap dancing October 17, 2022
Great Pics Sea urchin hats: Why these aquarium urchins are wearing dapper custom-made hats September 16, 2022 - Updated on January 31, 2024
Culture & Society Most fans don’t know it but Doctor Who’s sonic screwdriver exists for real. Well, sort of September 15, 2022 - Updated on May 1, 2023
News The Voyager spacecraft celebrate 45 years from launch — at over 10 billion miles away from Earth September 6, 2022
