Man builds Tetris console inside cardboard box
There was a time when you had to travel to your nearest arcade or beg your parents for a Game Boy if you wanted to play Tetris. Today, the iconic,…
February 2026
The Internet Archive records its 1 trillionth website
The Internet Archive—one of cyberspace’s most essential library projects—has achieved a feat that’s hard to even conceptualize. After nearly 30 years of painstaking work, the nonprofit has preserved its trillionth…
“Million-year-old” fossil skulls from China are far older—and not Denisovans
Two skulls from Yunxian, in northern China, aren’t ancestors of Denisovans after all; they’re actually the oldest known Homo erectus fossils in eastern Asia. A recent study has re-dated the…
Help NASA prepare for the next solar storm disaster
NASA has always made it a point to encourage us citizen scientists to lend them a hand. Right now, they could really use your help protecting Earth against waves of…
The history of clocks is one of tyranny and revolution
On a March evening in 1898, gunfire exploded through Mumbai’s Crawford Market. That night, angry city residents raised their rifles at an unusual target: the public clock tower atop the…
Rocket Report: Chinese launch firm raises big money; Falcon 9 back to the Bahamas
Welcome to Edition 8.30 of the Rocket Report! As I write this week’s edition, NASA’s Space Launch System rocket is undergoing a second countdown rehearsal at Kennedy Space Center, Florida.…
From chickens to humans, animals think “bouba” sounds round
Does “bouba” sound round to you? How about “maluma”? Neither are real words, but we’ve known for decades that people who hear them tend to associate them with round objects.…
Rare gifted word-learner dogs like to share their toys
We love hearing about the latest findings coming out of an Eötvös Loránd University (ELU) research group focused on gifted word learner (GWL) dogs—if only for the pictures of adorable…
Northern Glow Spans Iceland and Canada
Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Northern Glow Spans Iceland… Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human…
Groovy! Dive into the world’s largest online slang dictionary
Language can’t stay still for long. It’s constantly evolving alongside the cultures that use them—and slang frequently showcases this complex relationship at its most creative, playful, and strange. While some…