Clifford Berry stands by the Atanasoff-Berry Computer. Courtesy of Iowa State University Library Special Collections and University Archives, CC BY-ND Sat 09 August 2025: The first modern electronic digital computer was called the Atanasoff–Berry computer, or ABC. It was built by physics Professor John Vincent Atanasoff and his graduate student, Clifford Berry, in 1942 at Iowa State College, […]
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Fri 08 August 2025: How does one speak of a “Muslim World” when the supposed collective is either silent, complicit, or supine in the face of genocide? When Muslims from Gaza to Kashmir, from Sudan to Syria, are being brutalized with impunity, and the so-called leaders of Muslim-majority states are either polishing boots in Washington […]
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Fri 08 August 2025: Think about how many things you have done online today. Paid a bill? Logged into your bank account? Used social media or spent time answering emails? Maybe you have used your phone to pay at a supermarket or train station. We are all plugged in, and that’s not necessarily a bad […]
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Thu 07 August 2025: We wash our hands, sanitise shopping trolleys and wipe down cafe tables. But what about our phones? We touch these devices dozens of times a day, and take them everywhere from the kitchen to the dining table, and even the bathroom. Phones can be contaminated with many kinds of potential germs. When was […]
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Wed 06 August 2025: Murder offences decrease by 14.9 percent as US public safety continues to improve after pandemic, according to FBI data. A new report from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has found that crime in the United States decreased in 2024, continuing a trend of improved public safety after a spike in murders during […]
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Tue 05 August 2025: More than 10,000 European hotels are joining collective legal action against Amsterdam-based Booking.com to seek compensation for losses caused by the online travel agency’s use of so-called “best price” clauses. The clauses ban the hotels from offering rooms on their own websites at a lower rate and are seen by them […]
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Mon 04 August 2025: A giant hole on the Sun‘s surface has ejected a record amount of rare helium-3 gas into space. In October 2023, this gas was measured at a concentration 180,000 times higher than normal, marking a significant discovery that could unlock new insights into the Sun’s mysteries. Toward the end of October 2023, astronomers detected […]
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Mon 04 August 2025: Plastic pollution causes more than $1.5 trillion in health-related economic damage annually and contributes to disease and death at every stage of life, according to a new review published on Sunday in the medical journal The Lancet. “The world is in a plastics crisis,” the authors wrote. “But it is not […]
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Sun 03 August 2025: More people globally report living closer to their ‘best possible life’, Gallup says. People across the globe are living better lives and expressing more hope for the future, with the share of those “thriving” hitting a record high, a survey has found. Across 142 countries last year, a median of 33 percent of […]
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Sun 03 August 2025: The pyramid, located in the Ihuatzio Archaeological Zone, was one of the best-preserved remnants of the P’urhépecha Kingdom, the only empire never conquered by the Aztecs. The P’urhépecha culture still survives today. Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) blamed recent extreme weather, noting that intense heat followed by drought created cracks in the […]
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