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 best places to invest now are Chinese tech stocks and this out-of-fashion sector, according to Bank of America Personal Finance April 13, 2026 The stock market is now too big to fail, Bank of America’s Michael Hartnett reckons. So no rate increases before…
The financial sector is sending some spooky technical signals about the stock market Personal Finance March 15, 2026 Broken trendlines and a looming ‘death cross’ pattern bode badly for the financial sector, and therefore the rest of the…
Applied Materials’ stock jumps after earnings. The CEO just made a bold prediction for the chip sector. Personal Finance February 13, 2026 Applied Materials expects to see more than 20% growth in semiconductor-equipment revenue this year as AI potentially lifts overall chip-industry…
