In 1987, CompuServe engineer Steve Wilhite built GIF around LZW compression and a palette capped at 256 colours for users on 2,400-bit-per-second modems, and the file structure that emerged still governs the looping images moving through browsers and chats todayJuly 23, 2026
How did a single mistyped command by one AWS engineer in February 2017 knock a huge slice of the internet offline for nearly four hours?July 23, 2026
When seismic waves from the Chicxulub impact reached what is now North Dakota roughly ten minutes after the asteroid struck, they appear to have triggered a ten-metre standing wave in an inland river that flung fish onto the bank and buried them under glass beads still falling from the sky. Saving Tips June 5, 2026 Robert DePalma was digging at a ranch in the Hell Creek Formation of southwestern North Dakota, in a place he…
In 2022, NASA engineers in Pasadena watched a new image come down from Perseverance and saw a small heap of broken rocks resting on the Martian surface in a pattern that looked almost intentional, and the explanation they eventually offered involved a vanished river that has not flowed in three billion years. Saving Tips May 26, 2026 Perseverance landed in Jezero Crater on February 18, 2021, in a basin that scientists believe held a lake roughly 3.5…
