Moxie Marlinspike, the cryptographic prodigy who wrote the code that underpins Signal and WhatsApp, has a new project—and it ...

Because the moon has less gravity than Earth does, time passes slightly differently there. This effect was first predicted by ...

Australia's iconic red landscapes have been home to Aboriginal culture and recorded in songlines for tens of thousands of ...

Rebecca Northen was called the 'Julia Child of Orchids,' yet her story is hard to find online. Discover why women disappear ...

Learn about the history of the round baler and the many men and companies that claimed to be the first to create a functional ...

No matter the item on my list of childhood occupational dreams, one constant ran throughout: I saw myself using an ...

James Moylan, who thought up the little arrow on your gas gauge that tells you what side of the car your fuel filler sits, has passed away. Moylan was a Ford interior trim designer who came up with ...

Here are five bands who quietly (or not so quietly) invented entire subgenres without ever meaning to. When we look back on music history, genres often get framed around big moments and clearly ...

How some of the world’s most precise clocks missed a very small beat. By Mike Ives and Adeel Hassan Time appeared to skip a beat last week when some of the world’s most accurate clocks were affected ...

The origins of nuclear power are complicated because it wasn't discovered by a single person. Nuclear power is a product of many scientists and engineers who worked across generations and borders.

When people name the most important inventions in history, light bulbs are usually on the list. They were much safer than earlier light sources, and they made more activities, for both work and play, ...

When Adir Michaeli opened his first Michaeli Bakery in 2019, he did so with a bold claim: It was he who first developed the recipe for the Nutella-laced, syrup-brushed babka that several years earlier ...