4+ day, 23+ hour ago  (1071+ words) You know more than you think you do, the author told readers. We know for a fact, he wrote with medical authority, that the natural loving care that kindly parents give to their children is a hundred times more valuable…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago  (1441+ words) The phones we carry around in our pockets have two million times more memory and are thousands of times faster than the room-sized computers that guided the Apollo mission to the Moon. This incredible shrinking act has been driven by…...

6+ day, 15+ hour ago  (1263+ words) On 17th October 1956, Queen Elizabeth II pressed the switch that activated Calder Hall, the world's first grid-scale nuclear power station. As the country attempted to reassert world leadership after the trauma of World War II, The Times's correspondent excitedly recalled that:…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (200+ words) This August, Works in Progress returns to Cambridge for the third Invisible College: a week-long residential seminar for thirty promising 1822-year-olds from around the world. It'll take place 17-22 August 2026." Over the course of the week, attendees will take part in…...

3+ week, 15+ hour ago  (1322+ words) Japan is the land of the train. 28 percent of passenger kilometers in Japan are travelled by rail, more than anywhere else in the developed world. France achieves 10 percent, Germany 6. 4 percent, and the United States just 0. 25 percent. Travel in Japan is…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (460+ words) Subscribe for $100 to receive six beautiful issues per year. As they burst open, they briefly force open biological barriers that are otherwise impenetrable, such as the blood-brain barrier, allowing treatments to pass through. The force of their bursts can even…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (481+ words) Since then the aquifer has lost 286. 4 million acre-feet of water, comparable to draining Lake Erie entirely. The parts of it beneath arid states have seen much bigger drops. Large parts of Western Kansas have lost 50 percent of their aquifer depth....

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (178+ words) Subscribe for $100 to receive six beautiful issues per year. Yet just a decade after Nance's speech, two thirds of American homes had a TV set, including 78 percent of those in cities. As early as 1948, public housing officials were already debating…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1203+ words) Subscribe for $100 to receive six beautiful issues per year. Some American employers offer more generous redundancy packages, like Google in the example above. But this happens because American businesses want the concessions that they extract in exchange, such as non-disclosure…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1203+ words) Subscribe for $100 to receive six beautiful issues per year. Some American employers offer more generous redundancy packages, like Google in the example above. But this happens because American businesses want the concessions that they extract in exchange, such as non-disclosure…...