Ordinary lightning is well understood. It is a fast, enormous electrical discharge, it lasts a fraction of a second, it leaves physical traces, and it can be measured, photographed, and…
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There is a particular category of scientific discovery that requires no advanced equipment, no expedition, and no funding: simply noticing that something in front of you does not belong.…
Ask an adult for their earliest memory and you will usually get something from around the age of three or four: a first day at preschool, the arrival of a…
Picture the two places side by side. On one side of the Atlantic, the Sahara: the largest hot desert on the planet, stretching across the northern third of Africa, defined…
In the Southern Hemisphere summer of 1997, a team from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was doing routine work: monitoring an array of underwater microphones, or hydrophones, positioned to…
We tend to assume that simple things are old things. If an object is uncomplicated and useful, surely someone thought of it long ago. In fact, the gap between when…