Space & Exploration
- UK wants to send a spacecraft to grab two dead satellites from spaceon June 23, 2022
The UK is putting £5 million towards a mission to remove two dead satellites from space by burning them up in Earth’s atmosphere
- Light delayed by seven years as it is bent around a galaxy clusteron June 23, 2022
The light from a quasar was delayed by about 2458 days as the path it is travelling to us has been bent by the gravity from a cluster of galaxies
- Feryal Özel on what the first two pictures of black holes tell uson June 21, 2022
Astronomer Feryal Özel is one of the pioneers of black hole photography. With two pictures in the album, she explains what we have learned about these Read more →
Innovations
- Maniac & Sane carbon fiber cargo bikes come with or without a motorby Ben Coxworth on June 27, 2022
While cargo bikes definitely are useful, we tend not to think of the things as being sleek or lightweight. Both of those words, Read more →
- Cabless autonomous electric truck approved for US public roadsby Paul Ridden on June 27, 2022
Freight technology company Einride first introduced its cabless autonomous electric T-pod truck back in 2017, which rolled on Read more →
- Airbnb launches competition to fund the world's wildest house designsby Adam Williams on June 27, 2022
Airbnb isn't exactly lacking in unusual vacation home designs – such as the Air bee and bee, for example. However, the online Read more →
Internet Culture
- How a YouTube Sensation Became a Movie—12 Years Laterby Marah Eakin on June 24, 2022
In Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, the eponymous character learns what internet fame can do.
- Up Against It Explores Life in the Asteroid Beltby Geek's Guide to the Galaxy on June 24, 2022
For her new novel Laura J. Mixon wanted to tell a story that took a more realistic approach to space adventure.
- The Uncomfortable Comforts of Stranger Thingsby Angela Watercutter on June 24, 2022
As the show’s latest season sweeps Netflix, jokes about scandals like Watergate seem almost quaint.
Consumer Tech
- Company buying Trump's social media app faces subpoenason June 27, 2022
The company planning to buy Donald Trump’s new social media business disclosed Monday that it has received subpoenas from a federal grand jury in New York
- Why captions are suddenly everywhere and how they got thereon June 27, 2022
People with hearing loss have long adopted technology to navigate the world, especially since hearing aids are expensive and inaccessible to many
- Explorers find WWII Navy destroyer, deepest wreck discoveredon June 27, 2022
Explorers say they found the wreckage of the USS Samuel B