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The Sony Walkman TPS-L2 went on sale in Japan on July 1, 1979, and the machine that reached store shelves that summer had two headphone jacks on the side instead of one, plus a small orange button marked “hotline.” Both features came directly from Sony chairman Akio Morita, who was convinced it would be rude […]

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Scott Kelly came back from the International Space Station in March 2016 measurably taller than the brother he had left behind on Earth. After 340 days in orbit, the NASA astronaut had grown in spinal length, a change his identical twin Mark — a former astronaut himself, staying Earth-side as a genetic control — had […]

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The first land plants did not have roots. They had stubby green tissue pressed against bare Ordovician rock about 450 million years ago, and the only reason they survived long enough to become ferns, then conifers, then oaks, was that a thread of fungus reached up out of the mineral grit and traded them phosphorus […]

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Twenty-five years ago, the only people sleeping with their email device on the nightstand were lawyers, bankers, and a handful of executives whose firms paid for a BlackBerry Enterprise Server licence. The nickname those users eventually coined for the device — CrackBerry — turned out to describe the next two decades of consumer technology with […]

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Suzanne Simard’s 1997 forest experiment did not show trees whispering to each other. It showed something narrower, stranger, and easier to test: carbon that began in the air around a paper birch seedling later appeared inside a neighbouring Douglas fir, after passing through roots and fungal tissue in the soil. The field study, published in […]

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