History Costa Rica Turned La Sabana Airport Into a Public Park and Its Terminal Into an Art Museum November 4, 2026

History A Lifeboat Crew Poured Oil Onto the Sea to Help Rescue the Last 50 People From a Wrecked Hospital Ship November 2, 2026

History To Help a Rain-Damaged Mackintosh House Dry Out, Conservationists Put It Inside a Giant Chainmail Box November 1, 2026

Science & Nature A High School Student Asked Whether Spiders Could Spin Webs in Space. NASA Sent Two to Skylab to Find Out October 31, 2026

History Edison Hired Women to Record Nursery Rhymes for Talking Dolls. Scientists Recovered One of Their Voices From a Bent Tin Cylinder October 30, 2026

History Charles Dickens Had His Pet Raven Grip Stuffed for His Study and Replaced It With Another Raven of the Same Name October 29, 2026

History Rats Hid People's Belongings in Williamsburg's Walls. Historians Found a Silver Dinner Fork October 28, 2026

Technology Claude Shannon Helped Lay the Foundations of Digital Communication. He Also Built a Calculator That Worked Entirely in Roman Numerals October 27, 2026

Food & Drink Granny Smith Apples Were Named for a Real Grandmother Who Grew a Chance Seedling in Her Australian Orchard October 26, 2026

People & Society A Colombian Teacher Had Students With No Books at Home, So He Turned Two Donkeys Into a Traveling Library October 25, 2026

Science & Nature Researchers Held Dead Flamingos by One Leg and Found They Could Support Their Own Body Weight October 24, 2026

Arts & Entertainment MIT's Science Fiction Library Lent Toy Bananas and Could Fine Members Who Returned Them Late October 23, 2026

History In 1845, John Clark Charged a Shilling to Watch a Machine Write Latin Poetry October 22, 2026

History Madison Named the Plastic Pink Flamingo Its Official Bird to Honor a Student Prank October 18, 2026

History The U.S. Navy Sank Stone-Filled Whaling Ships to Block Charleston Harbor, but New Channels Formed Around Them October 16, 2026

History Ann Moore Claimed She Had Lived Without Food for Years. Investigators Put Her Bed on a Scale October 14, 2026

History Thomas Edison Tested Job Applicants on General Knowledge. His Own Son, an MIT Student, Failed October 14, 2026

History A Railroad Staged a Fatal Train Crash in 1896. It Fired the Organizer That Evening and Rehired Him the Next Day October 13, 2026

Technology NASA Engineers Bypassed Voyager 1’s Failed Memory Chip by Moving Its Code. They Waited Almost Two Days to Hear Back October 12, 2026

Technology Mike Muuss Wrote Ping to Find a Network Fault, but a Colleague Fixed It Before His First Test October 12, 2026

History Henry Cogswell Gave Cities Drinking Fountains to Encourage People to Drink Water Instead of Alcohol. Some Had Statues of Him That People Tore Down October 11, 2026

Sports Former Patriots Player Rich Ohrnberger Said He Deliberately Rear-Ended a Van So He Would Have an Excuse for Being Late to a Team Meeting October 11, 2026

Sports A Storm Delayed Oklahoma State and Tulsa’s 2011 Football Game Until 12:16 a.m. They Played Until 3:35 a.m. October 11, 2026

Animals The British Museum Glued a Snail to a Card, Thinking It Was Dead. Nearly Four Years Later, It Emerged From Its Shell October 11, 2026

History James Reavis Used Forged Spanish Records to Claim Millions of Acres. Arizona Landowners Paid Him for Their Own Property October 11, 2026

Animals Pilots in Crane Costumes Led Young Whooping Cranes From Wisconsin to Florida. The Birds Flew Back Without Them October 11, 2026

Travel & Places Kansas's Highest Point Is a Ranch Pasture Where Visitors Sign a Summit Guestbook October 11, 2026

People & Society Publisher Stanley Unwin Paid His Ten-Year-Old Son a Shilling to Review The Hobbit. The Boy's Verdict Helped Get It Published October 11, 2026

History Two Tea Ships Raced From China to London for 99 Days, Finished Minutes Apart, and Shared the First-Arrival Prize October 10, 2026

History The First British Moby-Dick Left Out Ishmael's Survival, So Reviewers Thought Its Narrator Had Drowned September 17, 2026

Technology Scientists Encoded Malware in DNA to Hack a Computer September 17, 2026

People & Society British Villages Bought Phone Boxes for £1 and Turned Them Into Libraries September 17, 2026

History High Winds Threatened to Topple a Manhattan Skyscraper, So Crews Secretly Made Emergency Repairs at Night September 13, 2026

Animals Some Falcons Store Live Birds in Rock Crevices for Later Meals September 10, 2026

Technology Edison's First Mass-Marketed Invention Was an Electric Pen That Punched Paper September 10, 2026

History In 2004, a Magazine Mailed 40,000 Subscribers a Satellite Photo of Their Own House September 10, 2026

History A 96-Pound Machinist Fixed a Runaway Airship With a Pocketknife While Dangling Over Boston September 10, 2026

Animals Scientists Took Away Pigeons' Liver Immune Cells and Their Inner Compass Failed on Cloudy Days September 5, 2026

Science & Nature Brazil's Worst Radiation Accident Began With Scrap Dealers Passing Around Glowing Blue Powder September 4, 2026

Travel & Places A Nebraska Man Built a Stonehenge Memorial From Junked Cars September 3, 2026

Science & Nature The Oregon Farmer Who Spent 90 Days Dragging the Willamette Meteorite Toward His Own Land September 2, 2026

Food & Drink Most Supermarket Apples Come From Grafted Tree Copies Instead of Seeds August 30, 2026

History A Driverless Volvo Hit a Docked Swedish Submarine in 1961 August 29, 2026

Health & Body Doctors Once Tilted Patients to Move an Oil Dye Through Their Spines August 29, 2026

People & Society The Man Who Flew Over Los Angeles in a Lawn Chair and Landed in Power Lines August 26, 2026

Animals The Monkeys at Bali's Uluwatu Temple Steal Phones and Trade Them Back for Food August 25, 2026

History A 1600 Year Old Mummy Had Homer's Iliad Wrapped on Its Abdomen August 24, 2026

Technology The 1899 “Horsey Horseless” Car Was Designed With a Fake Horse Head to Calm Real Horses August 24, 2026

History A Washington Post Office Once Used a Hollow Cedar Stump as Its Main Room August 22, 2026