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How the Nauga and its Fictional Friends Helped Make Synthetic Fabric Cuddly
What started out as an advertising ploy turned into a low-key cultural phenomenon
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Why Everyone Went on a Wild Goose Chase Looking for the Planet Vulcan
The idea of a ninth planet in the Solar System would resolve a mathematical conundrum about Mercury–only problem is, it wasn’t there
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How a “Snowman” Lasted the Entire Summer In Chicago
The icy Fischli/Weiss art installation on top of the Art Institute survived the swelter of the Windy City and will go on display next in San Francisco
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The Roots of Computer Code Lie in Telegraph Code
Émile Baudot, born a year after the first long-distance telegraph message was sent, helped advance the technology
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Canada Completes World’s Longest Hiking Trail
After 25 years and millions of dollars, the coast-to-coast hiking, biking and paddling trail has an official route
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Long Before Siri, Emma Nutt’s Voice Was on the Other End of the Line
She was the first female telephone operator. Before her, telephone operators were teenaged boys. That didn’t go so well
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The First Syphilis Cure Was the First ‘Magic Bullet’
The term ‘magic bullet’ once just meant a targeted drug
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The Vacuum Cleaner Was Harder to Invent Than You Might Think
The original vacuum cleaner required a number of improvements before becoming the household staple it is today
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A Neural Network Attempted to Write the Next Game of Thrones Book
Impatient readers can quench their thirst with the awkward, yet fascinating, prose of a neural network trained on George R.R. Martin
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Why the Can Opener Wasn’t Invented Until Almost 50 Years After the Can
The first ‘can opener’ was a hammer and chisel
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A Decade Ago, the Hashtag Reshaped the Internet
From humble origins, this ancient punctuation mark has gained new life as a symbol to connect us all on social media
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This Lab Replicates Weapons to Reveal Stone Age Feats of Engineering
A Kent State archaeologist is testing the innovative engineering of the Clovis people, one of the earliest communities to inhabit North America
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How America’s First Adding Machine is Connected to ‘Naked Lunch’
William Seward Burroughs (no, not that one) was the first man to invent a commercially practical calculator
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One of the World’s Most Famous Hospitals Was Originally a Makeshift Tornado Relief Clinic
You could say the first Mayo Clinic was a dance hall that had been converted into a makeshift field hospital
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Reach Out and Touch This Virtual Reality Art Installation
“The Sands,” currently on view at Essex Flowers, projects elaborate creations in a physically empty space
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Once Plundered by Thieves, Ancient Cave Reopens with 3-D Replicas of Stolen Fossils
It took multiple attempts—and two broken printers—to get the recreations right
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A Virtual Exhibit Unites Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers
The global collaboration features five of the six surviving canvases
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This “Tissue” Paper Is Made From Real Tissue
Made from powdered organs, the flexible paper could be used as a sophisticated bandage during surgery
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Tate Modern’s Modigliani Exhibition Ventures Into Virtual Reality
The upcoming retrospective couples works by the famed modernist with the museum’s first VR experience
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