“Uitwaaien” is a popular activity around Amsterdam—one believed to have important psychological benefits.Photograph by John…

As the world gets more connected and computerized, it is easy to have an unintended consequence pop up and bite you. Especially because, so much of the time, today, things just work. The days of fr…

A court in Iowa found that a murderer who was revived “is either still alive, in which case he must remain in prison, or he is actually dead, in which case this appeal is moot.”

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Airships lost out to conventional aircraft after a series of disastrous crashes. But now safer technology could be the key to their return.

A British historian famously wrote that work expands to fill available time – but what was he actually saying about inefficiency?

A normal day at the archives takes a strange turn when _Appendix_ editor Felipe Cruz finds a box full of personal effects recovered from a 60-year-old PanAm ...

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With its cheap geothermal energy and low crime rate, Iceland has become the world’s leading miner of digital currency. Then the crypto-crooks showed up.

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