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When Sony shipped the first Walkman in 1979, chairman Akio Morita insisted on a second headphone jack and a “hotline” talk button, convinced it would be rude for one person to listen to music alone — and within a few years buyers had ignored the soc
9 days ago
The Sony Walkman TPS-L2 went on sale in Japan on July 1...
Russia still custom-builds the Soyuz return seats for ISS crew members using plaster casts taken weeks before launch, because astronauts grow as much as five centimetres taller during a long-duration stay and a seat moulded to their Earth-shaped spine wou
12 days ago
Scott Kelly came back from the International Space Station in March 2016...
Mycorrhizal fungi colonised plant roots roughly 450 million years ago and biologists now suspect plants could never have moved out of the oceans onto bare rock without them, meaning every forest on Earth — including the redwoods, the Amazon, and the bor
13 days ago
The first land plants did not have roots. They had stubby green...
The “CrackBerry” nickname stuck for a reason — and the variable-reward psychology that hooked early-2000s executives on their BlackBerrys is the exact same machinery now running every push notification on every smartphone in your pocket
13 days ago
Twenty-five years ago, the only people sleeping with their email device on...
Suzanne Simard sealed paper birch and Douglas fir seedlings inside plastic bags, fed them carbon-14 and carbon-13 dioxide, and nine days later found carbon had crossed between species through fungal threads in the British Columbia soil beneath her boots
14 days ago
Suzanne Simard’s 1997 forest experiment did not show trees whispering to each...
Octopuses possess roughly 500 million neurons distributed across their body, with two-thirds located in their arms rather than their central brain, meaning each arm can taste, problem-solve, and react to stimuli independently of whatever the octopus is ot
14 days ago
The octopus carries about 500 million neurons, but only a third sit...
A species of jellyfish called Turritopsis dohrnii can revert its adult cells back to a juvenile polyp stage when injured or starving, effectively restarting its life cycle, and biologists have so far failed to identify any natural limit to how many times
14 days ago
The tiny jellyfish Turritopsis dohrnii can reorganise its adult cells back into...
In 1843, Ada Lovelace described a brass-and-punched-card engine that could act on symbols as well as numbers, even composing music if harmony could be reduced to rules, inside seven translator’s notes three times longer than the paper itself
14 days ago
In 1843, Ada Lovelace looked at Charles Babbage’s unbuilt Analytical Engine and...
The Roman aqueduct at Segovia, built around the first century AD without mortar, still carried water into the 1970s, its 167 granite arches held together by nothing but the precise weight distribution of stones cut to fit each other within fractions of a
14 days ago
The Aqueduct of Segovia delivered drinking water to a Spanish city for...
ARPANET sent its first message on 29 October 1969 from a lab at UCLA to a machine at Stanford, and the message was supposed to read ‘LOGIN’ — but the system crashed after the L and the O, meaning the first word ever transmitted over the network that
15 days ago
At 10:30 p.m. on 29 October 1969, a graduate student named Charley...
French scientist Michel Siffre spent two months alone in a cave with no clock, no calendar, and no sunlight — and when his team finally told him the experiment was over, he thought he still had nearly a month left underground
15 days ago
When Michel Siffre’s support team called down to tell him the experiment...
The Greenland shark grows about one centimetre a year, does not reach sexual maturity until around age 150, and a specimen carbon-dated by Danish researchers in 2016 was estimated to be at least 272 years old, meaning it was already swimming the North Atl
15 days ago
When marine biologist Julius Nielsen pulled the lens from the eye of...