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The Rectangularness of Countries
Which country is the most rectangular? This playful analysis fits the best rectangle to every nation's outline and ranks…
The Remarkable Number 1/89
A short, surprising explanation of why the decimal expansion of 1/89 hides the Fibonacci sequence, worked out with simpl…
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The Rubik's Contraption
A build log for a homemade robot that solves a Rubik's cube in 0.38 seconds, opening with the slow-motion video and then…
The Scientist
A life sciences magazine covering research trends and discoveries in biology, genetics, and medicine, aimed at working s…
The Secret Language of Ships
A visual piece decoding the signs and symbols painted on the sides of ships, which tell stories about a global shipping…
The Shortest Papers Ever Published
A roundup of famously brief academic papers, including a few that fit a title and a single sentence or a short table yet…
The Silver Swan Story
The story of the 1774 Silver Swan automaton at the Bowes Museum, a clockwork bird that preens and catches a fish, and it…
The Sound of Harmonics
An article that analyzes a saxophone waveform with Fourier series and lets you hear how reconstruction improves as more…
The Subjective Grounds the Physical
A philosophy essay arguing that the view from nowhere is nonsense, and that subjective experience rather than physics is…
The Sun Seen Through the Earth in Neutrino Light
An image of the Sun captured from deep underground at Super-Kamiokande by detecting neutrinos that passed straight throu…
The Tedious Intrigue of Art Conservation
A Carnegie Magazine feature that goes behind the scenes with museum conservators as they painstakingly clean, repair and…
The Time I Built an ROV to Solve Missing Person Cases
A hobbyist engineer builds an underwater remote-operated vehicle to search lakes for missing persons, with the design ch…
The tiniest yet real telescope I've built
A maker's account of building a pocket-sized Dobsonian telescope that truly works, with the design choices and tricks ne…
The Tree in Our Backyard
Alexis Madrigal investigates the old tree in his Oakland backyard, digging into the people who tended it before him and…
The True Size of Africa
Kai Krause's famous map that fits the USA, China, India and much of Europe inside the outline of Africa, with an essay o…
The Unexpected Poetry of PhD Acknowledgements
ANU researchers read hundreds of PhD theses and share what they found in the acknowledgements pages, from heartfelt than…
The Wada Test
Linda Button's essay that won the 2025 Annie Dillard Creative Nonfiction Award in Bellingham Review, built around the st…
The Wi-Fi Only Works When It's Raining
A hardware detective story about a home Wi-Fi link that only worked in the rain, following every false lead to a surpris…
The World Has Probably Passed Peak Pollution
Data-driven look at how local air pollution deaths have fallen in many countries, with clear charts and an argument for…
The World's Deadliest Thing
Food writer Anthony Warner tells the story of botulinum toxin, the deadliest substance known, and how fear of it quietly…
The Xenon Death Flash
The strange true story of how a camera flash could instantly crash the Raspberry Pi 2, and how the community traced the…
There's No Such Thing as a Tree
A delightful dive into convergent evolution, showing why biologists say trees are not a real group and how many times wo…
There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom
Richard Feynman's classic 1959 talk inviting physicists into a new field, a famous seed idea of nanotechnology, read in…
They're Made Out of Meat
Terry Bisson's classic two-page sci-fi dialogue in which alien explorers argue in disbelief that the thinking beings of…
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