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Watch SpaceX’s Recycled Rocket Stick Its Landing
The reused Falcon 9 booster rocket may usher in an era of cheaper and more frequent trips into space
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Now Everyone Can Track Yosemite’s Bears Online
The park is displaying delayed GPS data on a new website to stop curious humans from scouting out the creatures in real time
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A Second Doomsday Vault—This One to to Preserve Data—Is Opening in Svalbard
Known as the Arctic World Archive, it will store copies of books, archives and documents on special film
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Brief Vending Machine Delay Helps People Make Better Snack Choices
When a vending machine withheld junky snacks for 25 seconds, people were slightly more likely to choose a healthier option
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Before Velcro’s Patent Expired, It Was a Niche Product Most People Hadn’t Heard Of
The hook-and-loop tape’s moment in the sun came after others were free to copy it
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Nanocars Will Race Across (a Very, Very Tiny Bit of) France
Ladies and gentlemen, start your molecules
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Happy Birthday to the Modern Pencil
The patent for this supremely convenient invention didn’t last long
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Coca-Cola’s Creator Said the Drink Would Make You Smarter
Like the wine and cocaine drink that preceded it, Coca-Cola was first marketed as a brain tonic
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Norway Proposes World’s First Mile-Long Tunnel for Ships
The tunnel would help ships and ferries avoid rough seas around the Stadlandet Peninsula where 33 people have died since World War II
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Before 1929, Nobody Thought the President Needed a Telephone in his Office
Herbert Hoover got a phone in the Oval Office over fifty years after the White House first got a switchboard
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How Detroit Went from Motor City to the Arsenal of Democracy
Detroit already had car manufacturing capability: that turned into war production capability in the early 1940s
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Your Monthly Menstrual Cycle, Reenacted on a Microchip
Bodies are complicated, but they’re no match for persistent bioengineers
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The Guillotine’s Namesake Was Against Capital Punishment
And contrary to popular myth, he died of natural causes, not by beheading
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San Diego Breweries Experiment With Recycled Water
Stone and Ballast Point Breweries both created beers made from highly purified waste water
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Researchers Turn Spinach Leaves Into Beating Heart Tissues
These living leaves could eventually become patches for the human heart
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Another Use for Viagra: Curing Hamster Jet Lag
It works—but only for hamsters (and maybe people) traveling east
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This New Man-Made Sun Is 10,000 Times More Intense Than Sunlight on Earth
It’s a bright idea that just might help humans create solar fuel
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India’s Ganges and Yamuna Rivers Are Given the Rights of People
A few days after a New Zealand river gained the rights of personhood, an Indian court has declared that two heavily polluted rivers also have legal status
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This Innovator Thought Elevators Should Be Round
Peter Cooper thought that round would be the most efficient shape for elevators, and requested an elevator shaft designed accordingly
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