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Why were chainsaws invented? To help with childbirth.
The weirdest things we learned this week: Falcon sex hats and buying human skulls on Instagram
What’s in a packrat’s petrified pee? Just a few thousand years of secrets.
A normal person’s guide to buying an old film camera
Women In The Middle Ages Dressed Better Than Men
The US military’s first experiment with portable nuclear reactors was short and tragic
A Brief History of the Apollo Hoax
Some skyscrapers are so shiny they turn into death rays
How Abebe Bikila won the Olympic marathon without shoes
Innovations in Driving: Shock Absorbers
Innovations in Driving: The Automatic Transmission
The thorny history of barbed wire
Why are people obsessed with the Olympics?
11 terrifying childcare inventions from the early 20th century
What is the ‘red glare’ in the Star Spangled Banner?
The weirdest things we learned this week: Giant sloths, caged babies, and spicy horse butts
The fascinating and complex rise of palm oil
Human Remains Found In 2,000-Year-Old Antikythera Shipwreck
Viagra could have been a groundbreaking cure for period cramps
Here’s our original coverage of Apollo 11
Confirmed: Ancient Egyptian Jewelry Was Made From Meteorites
European fighter jets are making a diplomatic statement with their tiger print
The weirdest things we learned this week: smoke enemas, sneaky sound design, and stranded lighthouses
What’s stranger than bees telling time? How we learned that they can.
Humans Calculated Paths Of Planets 1,400 Years Earlier Than We Thought
This Mud Could Revolutionize How Scientists Study The Past
America’s first bomber, ‘the flaming coffin,’ got its name for a reason
The weirdest things we learned this week: wild weather, Victorian cannibalism, and the female orgasm (as told by a 12th-century nun)
Why baseball players ‘bone’ their bats
The weirdest things we learned this week: doctors drinking pee and telephones made of cats
How Little Vibrations Break Big Rockets
The Moon Has Had Water Its Whole Life, New Study Says
Travel through time on history’s most ridiculous rides
Re-Create The First Intercontinental Weapon
How to build a medieval crossbow
Build a gas-powered marshmallow shooter
Make these tiny, exploding hydrogen bubbles
How to build an hourglass watchtower
How to build a solar microscope
The historical significance of Harry Styles’ nipples, explained
Ancient athletes did something truly shocking with their genitals
Ben Franklin invented a mesmerizing instrument with a deadly reputation
There’s a secret room in the basement of the female body
People used to drink a very specific kind of urine to treat motion sickness
Archaeologists finally uncovered some of the mystery behind Laos’s Plain of Jars
The hellish Venus surface in 5 vintage photos
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla avoids Dark Age cliches thanks to intense research (and Google Earth)
Craving a radioactive snack? Grab a banana.
It’s time you really understood what allergies mean
Before there was a periodic table, there was chemical chaos
DEVELOPMENT EXAMPLE: The botany in Obama’s official portrait represents his history
A brief history of spacewalks
This new museum exhibit tells us to respect the microbes that live on us
Smallpox could be way younger than we thought
You Owe Your Daily Routine To The World’s Fair
What did ’90s NASA astronauts pack for space?
You get brainwashed whenever you go to sleep (and that’s a good thing)
Pablo Escobar’s hippos might be filling an ancient ecological niche
In Hawaii, an ancient observatory offers lessons for modern stargazers
Can you ‘deprogram’ people who join cults?
Your favorite brunch foods are thousands of years old
Eating soy does not make men grow boobs
These famous US presidents had niche scientific interests that might surprise you
Tech-savvy fashion forecasters already know what you’ll be wearing in two years