In 1911, the Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes cooled a thread of mercury to 4.2 kelvin in a bath of liquid helium and its electrical resistance vanished completely, and a current set circulating in a superconducting loop like that will still be flowing years later, indistinguishable from the day it beganJuly 24, 2026
In a Milwaukee workshop in the 1870s, Christopher Latham Sholes spent years rearranging the keys of his mechanical Type-Writer so that commonly paired letters sat far apart, ensuring the metal typebars would swing from different directions and not jam mid-wordJuly 23, 2026
The Greenland shark grows about one centimetre a year, does not reach sexual maturity until around age 150, and a specimen carbon-dated by Danish researchers in 2016 was estimated to be at least 272 years old, meaning it was already swimming the North Atlantic when Mozart was composing symphonies. Saving Tips June 9, 2026 When marine biologist Julius Nielsen pulled the lens from the eye of a five-metre Greenland shark in his Copenhagen lab,…
When headlines declared that an MIT study had proven ChatGPT “makes you stupid,” the researchers behind it posted a page asking journalists to stop using words like “dumb” and “brain rot,” because their paper, based on 54 students writing essays, never said anything of the kind. Saving Tips May 28, 2026 When headlines declared that an MIT study had proven ChatGPT “makes you stupid,” the researchers behind it published an FAQ…
