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Courtesy of Ms Cellania , we are afforded the opportunity to to catch up on our intrepid science presenter Ze Frank ( see previously ) wi...

stanford torus : maybe if we solve Earth, we can have a little space donut as a treat— see previously matriculation : Merriam-Webster’s Word...

Reportedly convincingly demonstrated to a journalist from La Presse on this day in 1851, though business partners remained sceptical and ...

Via Strange Company’s Weekend Link Dump , we very much enjoyed learning about young aspiring chemist William Henry Perkin’s accidental disco...

letraset press : a collection of instant lettering dry-transfer sheets ( see previously ) from Coudal Partners’ Fresh Signals   the woman w...

here fishy, fishy, fishy : a tale of a talking fishing lure and sixty counts of mail fraud   goldenrod : behind-the-scenes footage of droi...

While the earliest known attested use is to be found in a fourteenth century translation of a Greek chronicle with the at symbol substitute...

Parallel to the introduction of the telegraph, people were eager to find alternatives that overcame the obstacles of time and tide and on...

Previously we’ve covered this exciting find in the ruins of Pompeii suggesting a well-preserved snack bar , and appreciated the update regar...

Though less well attested and possibly uncommon, there’s a type of seasonal animal dormancy that’s the corollary to hibernation. From the L...

In a surprising experimental set-up that could possibly pose a challenge—and surely many nuances—to the commonly-held theory that memories a...

Some weeks ago BBC Radio 4 featured the story of a lovelorn snail called Jeremy who because of a rare, one-in-a-million genetic mutation is...

Possibly surpassing spiders’ silk for its tensile strength , biologists may have discovered a new candidate for a new class of more efficien...

Alexander Neubacher, writing for Der Spiegel’s international section (auf Englisch), presents a clever look at trenchant German environmen...