Submissions by orcul

Cable-chewing beavers take out town’s Internet in “uniquely Canadian” outage

Xiaomi is undercutting the whole tech industry. And it’s working

What Do New Neurons in the Brains of Adults Do?

Semantic Satiation

A 1876 Map of the World’s Ecozones That Still Holds Up

When plastics were first invented, they seemed to promise a utopian future

Limit of Human Endurance Found

Twice as Many Fishing Vessels Are Chasing Fewer Fish on the World’s Oceans

Quantum Explanations for Biological Phenomena

Why Luddites Are Fashionable Again

Your Body Is Younger Than You Think (2005)

Why Physicists Tried to Put a Ferret in a Particle Accelerator

German president presented with last piece of black coal mined in Germany

Vladimir Nabokov, Literary Refugee

Kuiper Belt Objects Are as Mysterious as They Are Distant

How much do Europeans exercise?

Widespread Declines in UK’s Pollinators