Words and Phrases Coined by Shakespeare.

The internet is becoming unreadable because of a trend towards lighter and thinner fonts, making it difficult for the elderly or visually-impaired to see words clearly, a web expert has found.

How Necking Shaped the Giraffe.

In order to pump blood seven feet above the animal’s heart to that towering head, an exceptionally high blood pressure is required, as much as three times the human systolic level. In order to keep from blowing their arteries apart, giraffes need special structural supports within those blood vessels.

Beyond humans, what other kinds of minds might be out there?

From algorithms to aliens, could humans ever understand minds that are radically unlike our own?

How the Soviets invented the internet and why it didn't work.

Soviet scientists tried for decades to network their nation. What stalemated them is now fracturing the global internet.

What the news media can learn from librarians.

Journalism has had the luxury of not having to ask itself the existential question of why anyone should pay any attention to us at all.

A firsthand look inside America's resurgent paramilitary movement.

You won’t believe what number 1 is…

9 tech skills that pay over $120,000 and are in demand.

Chemotherapy Is Brutal. Can This MIT Engineer Fix It?

The device allows patients to monitor white blood cell levels from home, simply by shining a tiny microscope over a fingernail.

The scientists who make apps addictive.

Tech companies use the insights of behaviour design to keep us returning to their products. But some of the psychologists who developed the science of persuasion are worried about how it is being used.