Scientific American
Animal Landscapers
How creatures alter geology
2 min |
July/August 2025
Scientific American
Gorilla Gourmets
A mysterious gorilla foraging behavior explained
2 min |
July/August 2025
Scientific American
Impossible Teal
Only five people have seen the color \"olo\"
4 min |
July/August 2025
Scientific American
Tentacle Talk
Discolike dance moves may be cuttlefish communications
2 min |
July/August 2025
Scientific American
Mic Drop
To win trust and admiration, fix your microphone
3 min |
July/August 2025
Scientific American
Strange Circles in the Sky
Odd radio circles are one of the weirdest recent space discoveries
5 min |
July/August 2025
Scientific American
In the Heat of the Night
Hot nights lead to lots of hospitalizations. There are ways to keep your cool
4 min |
July/August 2025
Scientific American
BLACK HOLE BURPS
After black holes devour stars, sometimes the feast comes back up
10+ min |
July/August 2025
Scientific American
How Susceptible Are We to False Memories?
Recent studies underscore the difficulty of implanting entirely fictional events in a person's recollection
5 min |
July/August 2025
Scientific American
Slime Attack
This creature's extraordinary goo could lead to recyclable bioplastics
3 min |
July/August 2025
Scientific American
Sniff a Mummy
Scientists capture ancient Egyptian mummies' scents
2 min |
July/August 2025
Scientific American
Pay Dirt
The Danish government deputized private detectorists to unearth artifacts buried in farm fields. Their finds are rewriting the country's history
10+ min |
July/August 2025
WIRED
WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU'RE CONVICTED
From Sam Bankman-Fried's fraud-ridden crypto empire to Elizabeth Holmes' sham biotech company to deepfakers on the internet bilking grandmas of their retirement savings, white-collar crime seems to touch every last corner of tech.
4 min |
July - August 2025
WIRED
SHARED SECRETS
Psst is building a digital safe to protect tech whistleblowers from recrimination.
3 min |
July - August 2025
WIRED
TWO VIOLENT YEARS ON THE TRAIL OF THE ZIZIANS
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED WHEN A GROUP OF TECHNICALLY GIFTED YOUNG PEOPLE SET OUT TO SAVE THE WORLD-AND THEN WENT WAY TOO FAR.
10+ min |
July - August 2025
WIRED
The Sky-High Ambitions of Jay Graber
Bluesky is where all the lefties went in the wake of Musk’s Twitter takeover. But its CEO says the app is for everyone—and could revolutionize the social internet.
10+ min |
July - August 2025
WIRED
A BILLION STREAMS AND NO FANS
A chart-topping jazz album! Loads of streams! Just one problem: The success might not be real.
10+ min |
July - August 2025
WIRED
FIND MY MURDERERS
Three teens almost got away with a shocking crime. Then police decided to test the limits of Google.
10+ min |
July - August 2025
WIRED
TRIVIAL PURSUITS
Esoteric programming languages are fun! Until they're derivative nonsense and kill the joke.
5 min |
July - August 2025
WIRED
OBJETS D'EVIL
Villainous characters often have devilishly good taste. Put these tools to better use in your own lair.
5 min |
July - August 2025
WIRED
HOW TO WIN FOLLOWERS AND SCAMFLUENCE PEOPLE
When West Africa's notorious Yahoo Boys need to freshen up their repertoire of online scams, there's one man they turn to.
4 min |
July - August 2025
WIRED
THE GOD OF DMT
With just a sprinkle of the drug, anything can happen: trips to other dimensions, sex with aliens, communion with your creator. Akasha Song made it by the kilo in secret labs, sold it for millions on the dark web, and—for a while—lived a literal dream.
10+ min |
July - August 2025
WIRED
THE PRETENDERS
Remote colleague? Keeps the camera off in meetings? Might be a North Korean operative who sneaked in to your company with a stolen identity and a heavy dose of ChatGPT.
10+ min |
July - August 2025
Popular Mechanics US
QUANTUM GRAVITY
ALMOST ALL WE KNOW about the universe boils down to the rules of quantum mechanics. Just about everything can be described as fields (electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force, the weak nuclear force) and matter, and we've slowly rebuilt our understanding of the cosmos out of these fundamental building blocks.
2 min |
May - June 2025
Popular Mechanics US
A New Human Species
ALTHOUGH ONLY ONE SPECIES OF hominin exists on the planet today—good ol' Homo sapiens—the human family once comprised a complex tableau of members. And over the years, scientists have tried to get a clearer picture of that prehistoric story by excavating ancient human sites around the world.
1 min |
May - June 2025
Popular Mechanics US
A Christian Amulet
AN 1,800-YEAR-OLD SILVER amulet discovered buried in a Frankfurt, Germany, grave—still next to the chin of the man who wore it—has 18 lines of text written in Latin on just 1.37 inches of silver foil. That could be enough to rewrite the known history of Christianity in the Roman Empire.
2 min |
May - June 2025
Popular Mechanics US
D.B. Cooper
THE CHILDREN OF CONVICTED SKYJACKER Richard McCoy II believe their dear old dad may have been D. B. Cooper, the notorious central figure in 1971's unsolved skyjacking. It's in fact the only one in U.S. history without an answer—until, perhaps, now.
2 min |
May - June 2025
Popular Mechanics US
HIS FAMILY WANTED TO DONATE HIS ORGANS.
IT SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN THIS HARD.
10+ min |
May - June 2025
Popular Mechanics US
This Whiskey Shipwreck
DURING A STORMY NIGHT IN 1878, A three-masted schooner called the James R. Bentley struck a shoal and sank to the bottom of Lake Huron on a Chicagoto-Buffalo voyage. Although the crew was rescued, the ship and its precious cargo went into the 39°F water.
2 min |
May - June 2025
Popular Mechanics US
A Gopher Volcano
IT WOULD PROBABLY BE PRETTY ALARMING to learn that, in the early 1980s, scientists decided to drop off a bunch of gophers at the site of a volcanic eruption.
1 min |