Who has a closet full of Nazi memorabilia?
From Wehrmacht epaulets and belt buckles to Hitler’s top hat and Eva Braun’s underwear, if an object played a material role in the Third Reich, no...
In Peru, a fossil-rich desert faces unruly development
Gentle waters of a shallow lagoon buffered by hills that still wrap across the landscape today. Eventually, tectonic shifts lifted the land from the...
More than gum and coins are stuffed in these ‘pockets’
“Pocket sexism” is a central tenet of Carlson’s book, whose topic might sound so mundane as to be a parody, a la that musical number about stools in...
Wireless energy: Race to decarbonise turns to space
Hajimiri envisages thousands of solar panels floating in space,unhindered by day-night cycles, wirelessly transmitting massive amounts of energy to ...
Workers’ movements or tantrums against technology?
Brian Merchant's book 'Blood in the Machine' is structured around the stories of the individuals, famous and otherwise, whose lives were violently...
Tiny parasitic wasp can drill through plastic
Of the 56 wasps the researchers raised, eight drilled holes in the plastic, including three who did so even though a perfectly good host was sitting...
A vanishing nomadic clan, with a song-like language
Over decades, the Indonesian government stripped the Punan of their ancestral lands and encouraged them, sometimes forcibly, to settle in ready-built...
Russian Revisionism 2.0: The man behind Putin’s warped view of
Vladimir Medinsky, Russia’s former culture minister and now a presidential aide has helped construct the ideological and historical edifice on which...
