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In 1905, according to the Popsicle origin story, an 11-year-old in the San Francisco Bay Area left a cup of soda mixture outside overnight with its stirring stick still inside and found it frozen by morning; 19 years later Frank Epperson patented the???frozen confectionery??? as the Epsicle, his children persuaded him to rename it the Popsicle, and the brand says more than 2 billion are now sold each year.
5+ hour, 3+ min ago (788+ words) The famous frozen-cup story is brand lore, but Frank Epperson’s 1924 patent shows the engineering that turned flavoured ice on a stick into a mass-market product. By The Long View · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September 13, 2026 · How we edit The Popsicle…...
A viewing deck 210 meters over Paris opened in 1974 and shut on March 31 this year for several years while the whole building is rebuilt. The company that ran it had owned and operated the observatory and its floors for 53 years.
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (593+ words) After 52 years of operation, Paris's highest public vantage point goes dark—not for renovation, but for a complete rebuilding that could keep it closed until 2030. By Science Blog Editorial Team · Edited by Mal James Published September 10, 2026 · How we edit On…...
A British businessman bought the island of Lundy in 1925, decided it should largely govern itself and began issuing his own stamps and “Puffin” coins — until the British government prosecuted him for making his own money
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (687+ words) When a financier's fantasy of island sovereignty collided with crown law, a handful of homemade coins became evidence in one of Britain's most peculiar prosecutions. Published September 10, 2026 · How we edit Put a 1929 puffin in your palm and it feels like…...
Slime mould has no brain, no neurons and no central control, yet when scientists placed food at 36 locations matching cities around Tokyo, it grew a network strikingly similar to the rail system — with comparable efficiency, cost and resilience
4+ day, 57+ min ago (462+ words) A single-celled organism with no brain solved a transportation puzzle that took human engineers decades to perfect. Published September 9, 2026 · How we edit A brainless yellow blob spread across a wet plate in a Japanese lab and, meaning nothing by it,…...
Rescuers took in a hedgehog swollen up like a balloon and worked out what was inflating it before treating the swelling itself, The Dodo reports — the shape had a specific cause, not an unexplained one
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (515+ words) Behind the bizarre balloon shape was a treatable culprit—and rescuers knew exactly how to deflate the problem. By Lab Report · Edited by Justin Brown Published September 9, 2026 · How we edit The veterinary term for this presentation is subcutaneous emphysema, while…...
In 1948, Idaho wildlife officials packed 76 beavers into boxes and parachuted them into remote country — 75 survived the drops, after an older test beaver named Geronimo had repeatedly ridden the same system back to the ground to prove the boxes worked.
4+ day, 3+ hour ago (934+ words) Idaho’s 1948 parachute relocation moved 76 beavers with one fatality. The original account explains the tested boxes, Geronimo’s role and the limits of the survival figure. By Natural History · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September 9, 2026 · How we edit In 1948, Idaho wildlife officials…...
Researchers heated egg yolk and leftover rice until it was a black powder full of tiny holes, then used it to store electricity. They charged it and drained it 10,000 times, and it still held 82.26 percent of what it did the first time.
4+ day, 9+ hour ago (515+ words) A humble kitchen waste might outlast the batteries powering your phone. By Lab Report · Edited by Mal James Published September 9, 2026 · How we edit Why would anyone cook egg yolk and old rice into a battery material? It sounds like a…...
Don't pretend to be someone you're not: the measurable cost of a false front, and where the line falls
5+ day, 44+ min ago (60+ words) Authenticity isn't just nice to have—sustained pretending depletes your mental resources in measurable ways, but knowing when to hold back matters just as much. By Science Blog Editorial Team · Edited by Graeme Brown Published September 8, 2026 · How we edit Follow…...
In 1971, the Soviet Union’s Mars 3 became the first spacecraft to soft-land successfully on Mars—but it transmitted for just 14.5 seconds before falling silent, giving it the shortest successful surface mission in Martian history.
5+ day, 4+ hour ago (897+ words) Mars 3 achieved the first soft landing on Mars, then lost contact within seconds. The surviving records distinguish a successful arrival from a surface investigation that never developed. By The Long View · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September 8, 2026 · How we edit…...
A data center in Denmark gives away heat that data centers often waste. It runs water from the city's heating network through its cooling units and into heat pumps that raise it enough to fill the radiators of 11,000 homes
5+ day, 16+ hour ago (616+ words) As data centers consume ever more power, one facility in Denmark shows how to turn a costly cooling problem into a heating solution for thousands of households. By Science Blog Editorial Team · Edited by Mal James Published September 7, 2026 · How we…...