On October 30, 1961, a Soviet Tu-95 bomber crossed the frozen landscape of Novaya Zemlya carrying an object so large that the aircraft had been specially modified to accommodate it. The bomb was released by parachute. The crew turned away a...
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Ice presents a small everyday mystery. A cold pavement can be dangerously slippery even when the air temperature is far below freezing, while many other crystalline solids are perfectly easy...
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Look down at a computer keyboard and you are looking at a museum whose exhibits still work. Some keys preserve decisions made by nineteenth-century typewriter manufacturers. Others carry sym...
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Before there were alien abductions and Area 51 memes, there were the Contactees. These were people—mostly in the 1950s—who claimed not only to see UFOs, but to have had face-to-face chats wi...
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“Demmel Sims” might sound like the name of your new favorite jazz bassist or a long-lost Marvel character, but in reality, it’s... no one. Or at least, no one definitively identifiable. Go a...
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📱 Can Old Phones Really Stay Off the Grid? Let’s Investigate Before the era of facial recognition and GPS in your pocket, there was the humble Nokia 3310. No internet, no apps, no biomet...
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