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In the spring of 2019, Jeff Bezos made what appeared to be a fairly typical billionaire-in-space announcement while standing in front of a model of a…

You almost instantly notice something when you pull up a chart showing the recent performance of the U.S. stock market. Fifty-five percent of the market’s growth…

There is a rusted metal cap bolted into a concrete floor somewhere in the northern Russian Kola Peninsula, close to the Norwegian border, surrounded by Arctic…

It was meant to be a typical dinner. Mike Fincke and his crewmates settled in aboard the International Space Station, floating somewhere over the Pacific, 250…

When you walk onto the New York Stock Exchange floor on a Thursday afternoon in late March 2026, the numbers that scroll across the screens reveal…

A spiral timeline depicting the entire history of human technology was created by Max Roser at Our World in Data. Stone tools at the center mark…

Nowadays, you can see them if you go outside on a clear night practically anywhere on Earth, such as a field in rural Saskatchewan, a beach…

An Amazon fulfillment center has a distinct hum that is low, steady, and almost mechanical. Packages are slid forward by conveyor belts, workers move at a…

A researcher looks at a screen full of shapes that don’t quite look familiar in a quiet lab with soft fluorescent light and humming freezers. These…

A junior analyst is watching a dashboard update itself in a glass-filled office tower on a weekday morning. Forecasts change, numbers change, and recommendations show up…