On August 10, 1888, at around 8:30 p.m., a bright fireball lit up the skies above a mountain village in the Kurdistan Region near modern-day Sulaymaniyah, Iraq. The fireball carried a trail of “smoke” as it passed toward a neighboring village. Then, it exploded overhead, leveling crops and raining stones for 10 minutes on a “pyramid-shaped” hill below. The falling debris killed one man and paralyzed another.

At 22, Marcus Hutchins put a stop to the worst cyberattack the world had ever seen. Then he was arrested by the FBI. This is his untold story.

At a time when the United States and the Soviet Union were poised on the edge of nuclear annihilation, an improbable space mission proved that peace was possible. Join us for this special episode of the Supercluster podcast, as we reach back into space history to bring you the story of the first ever international cooperation in space: The Apollo Soyuz Test Project.

A life on the high seas promised adventure, until a kidnapping turned a young man's life upside down.

There is a nice variety to choose from here.

As a struggling grad student, I happened upon a lucrative side hustle with an elite team of card-counters—and found the community I'd been looking for.

The Tully Monster, an ancient creature at the top of the scale of weirdness, has defied scientists’ attempts to categorize it for more than half a century. But a new analysis of the molecules in its fossils suggests it was a vertebrate.

Thanks to coronavirus shutdowns, many TV shows will soon reach a point where they simply run out of new material to air. That means unavoidable delays, but some showrunners are coming up with more creative solutions. Case in point, NBC’s crime thriller The Blacklist. This show isn’t usually at the forefront of groundbreaking innovation, but it’s definitely popular enough to be renewed for an eighth season next year. The problem is, they didn’t quite have time to finish season 7.

On April 23, I started work at 8:49 a.m., reading and responding to emails, browsing the news and scrolling Twitter. At 9:14 a.m., I made changes to an upcoming story and read through interview notes. By 10:09 a.m., work momentum lost, I read about the Irish village where Matt Damon was living out the quarantine. All of these details — from the websites I visited to my GPS coordinates — were available for my boss to review.

How well this works out,remains to be seen.

Made from mycelium, the canoe is self repairing because it continually grows mushrooms and releases spores after it is taken out on the water.

A rising international force of rebel botanists armed with chalk has taken up street graffiti to highlight the names and importance of the diverse but downtrodden flora growing in the cracks of paths and walls in towns and cities across Europe.

Ever wondered where the last year of your life went? Neuroscientist David Eagleman sheds some light on the time-bending power of your brain.

Leading psychotherapist and author on Trump's worsening sadistic "addiction" to causing harm, pain and death

Rented Future: The Dangerous Rise of Life as a Service, a talk given at the Free Software Foundation's LibrePlanet conference, is available to watch online.

Though it may vary based on context or mood, most of us have a fairly steady belief in how intelligent we think we are. Whether that belief is in any way accurate or even helpful is a different question — one 2019 study found that people who were happier to admit they don’t know something actually had better general knowledge, whilst a survey from the year before found that the majority of Americans believed they were smarter than average.

Shimon does not act alone, he plays in a band and his fellow band mates are human. They have already performed in places like the Kennedy Center and all their songs are original. The robot is the brainchild of Gil Weinberg, a professor of music technology at the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology, and his team.

If there is hope in our present situation, it lies in the fact that the current occupant of the White House is opening our eyes to the reality that individuals with dangerous personalities can plunge entire societies into division and moral confusion.

The moneyed elephant in the room.