Aug 31, 2026 | Journal
There is a ship at the bottom of the Weddell Sea that has not been touched since the day it sank. Endurance, the three-masted barquentine in which Ernest Shackleton and twenty-seven men set out in 1914 to make the first land crossing of Antarctica, was found on 5...
Aug 30, 2026 | Journal
There is a fish that has been on the books since 1901 and has only just, this past July, been seen alive. It is about fifteen centimetres long, has no real neck to speak of, and its head is a transparent dome filled with fluid, inside which two tubular eyes point...
Aug 29, 2026 | Journal
There is a bell in a conservation lab in Norfolk that is doing more historical work than most libraries. It was cast in 1681, hung in a Royal Navy frigate called Gloucester, lost with the ship on a Norfolk sandbank in the early hours of 6 May 1682, and found again,...
Aug 28, 2026 | Journal
If you wanted to build a humanoid robot from scratch in 2026, the strangest thing about the project is how little of it would be invention. The actuators are catalog items. The simulation environments are open source. The base policies are downloadable. The...
Aug 26, 2026 | Journal
The most famous object in the history of computing is smaller than a shoebox, drowned in a shipwreck off the island of Antikythera around 65 BC, and corroded into 82 fragments. For most of the time it has been studied, the large bronze disc on its front face has been...
