It’s National Board Game Day, and we’re going back to the very beginning, the very first board game in US history. Though explaining which game was the very first is slightly complicated.
Today in 1849, the US issued a patent for one of the smallest big ideas of the century: the safety pin. And a big factor behind that little invention was paying off a big debt.
Today in 1843, the birthday of Samuel W. Pennypacker. When he was governor of Pennsylvania his supporters tried to make certain types of editorial cartoons a crime (!)
The physiophone was a Hugo Gernsback invention that turned sound into electrical impulses, so Deaf people could feel the music.
Beavers are some of the greatest builders on earth, and, as some scientific research has shown us, they build for the long term.
Spiders know what it's like to get distracted by excess noise. A new scientific paper finds certain arachnids in louder environments build their webs differently than those where it’s quiet.
Bike helmets have been more or less the same for many years, but there’s a new effort to make safer and more responsive headgear with 3D printing.
It's National Ferret Day, and so here’s the story of a ferret named Felicia who made an unusual contribution to the field of physics.
April Fools' Day is when people try to mislead each other, sometimes the people you’d least suspect. Like how on this day in 1957, one of the world’s most steady and preeminent news outlets reported that spaghetti was growing on trees.
Today in 1889, the formal opening and dedication of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. What a strange life it’s had, including a proposal in the 1930s to add two huge car ramps to the sides of the thing.
