World’s largest Cadbury Mini egg weighs as much as an emu
Peter Cottontail would probably pull a muscle trying to lug this giant chocolate egg down the bunny trail. After the success of the world’s largest Cadbury Creme Egg in 2025,…
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What happened to Amelia Earhart? New book takes on the case.
Famed aviator Amelia Earhart mysteriously disappeared in 1937 during an attempt to become the first female pilot to circumnavigate the globe. Speculative theories abound about what really happened to Earhart,…
From memory cards to SSDs: How long will your digital media storage actually last?
We never fully lost our love for physical media. Tangible copies of music, movies, and books have never been completely obsolete. In fact, collecting has come back in vogue among…
Georgia man brings abandoned VHS tapes back to life
Have you ever walked into an old garage or antique store, seen a VHS tape gathering dust and wondered: would those sad old pieces of plastic still play? An eclectic…
Polygraphs have major flaws. Are there better options?
When George W. Maschke applied to work for the FBI in 1994, he had already held a security clearance for over 11 years. The government had deemed him trustworthy through…
Explanation for why we don’t see two-foot-long dragonflies anymore fails
Three-hundred million years ago, the skies of the late Palaeozoic era were buzzing with giant insects. Meganeuropsis permiana, a predatory insect resembling a modern-day dragonfly, had a wingspan of over…
Causality optional? Testing the “indefinite causal order” superposition
Over a decade ago, when I was first starting to pretend I could write about quantum mechanics, I covered a truly bizarre experiment. One half of a pair of entangled…
How new fishing tech can reduce bycatch of turtles and other creatures
Our oceans are full of sophisticated, perfect traps: Nets, hooks, fishing lines. Designed to capture animals destined for our dinner tables, they often catch other wildlife too. This accidental harvest…
I Am Artemis: Erik Richards
3 Min Read I Am Artemis: Erik Richards Erik Richards, mission manager for NASA’s Near Space Network, stands in front of the large antennas at the White Sands Test Facility…
Software engineers design algorithm to solve pizza topping arguments
Pepperoni or anchovies? Mushrooms or black olives? And what about the ever popular and polarizing pineapple? Pizza topping preferences are as varied as the people who order them. While that’s…