The long read: Frank Olson died in 1953, but, because of clandestine US government experiments, it took decades for his family to get closer to the truth

New documents show that the M.I.T. Media Lab was aware of Epstein’s status as a convicted sex offender, and that Epstein directed contributions to the lab far exceeding the amounts M.I.T. has publicly admitted.

Stellarium is a planetarium software that shows exactly what you see when you look up at the stars. It's easy to use, and free.

In offering his colleague a cup of tea, Ronald Fisher was just being polite. He had no intention of kicking up a dispute—much less remaking modern science. At the time, the early 1920s, Fisher worked

Walk for a moment in the shoes of the world’s poorest people, or in some cases, imagine life without shoes at all.

A swarm of micro-robots, directed by magnets, can break apart and remove dental biofilm, or plaque, from a tooth. The innovation arose from a cross-disciplinary partnership among dentists, biologists, and engineers.

State, local, federal governments unofficially use the \

More than 70,000 users have already chosen on their own to explicitly enable DoH in Firefox Release edition. We are close to releasing DoH in the USA, and we have a few updates to share.

For god's sake the AWS web console is horribly made. Want to know how long I've put up with the image tab in the ECR repository view having...

Drag, drop and rotate countries, states, provinces, and regions around the map to compare their relative size.
Is Greenland really as big as all of Africa?
You may be surprised at what you find!
A great tool for educators.

The Vortex, a radical new way to generate wind energy, is a bladeless wind turbine that looks like a giant rolled joint shooting into the sky.

John Lewis and Fergus Cumming A tulip bulb produces flowers. Those flowers are what people actually enjoy consuming, not the bulb. Whilst that’s blindingly obvious for tulips, the equivalent is als…

India may have failed at its attempt to land a probe on the moon: It has lost communication with the lunar lander minutes before it was supposed to reach the lunar surface.

One sunny afternoon this April, a Chinese teenager nicknamed Gallen was backpacking through Bali, hunting for things to do. But he didn’t turn to TripAdvisor for crowd-sourced suggestions (too time consuming) or scroll through Instagram for local geotags…

@backspace Hey John, caught this late but didn't want it to go unacknowledged. The TLDR: We agree, the print-optimized maps are not ideal in this context. But... (1/2)

Even when they are buying the same sandwich

JOMO—the joy of missing out—is a way to live an intentional life. It’s realising that FOMO is distracting you from your life’s purpose.

People who do their jobs from home, freelance or frequently travel for work are fueling a renaissance in American cities that lie outside the major job hubs.