The night an Air Force jet mysteriously disappeared over Lake Superior—November 23, 1953—was a stormy one. Near the U.S.-Canadian border, U.S. Air Defense Command noticed a blip on the radar where it shouldn’t have been: an unidentified object in restricted air space over Lake ...read more

In February 1949, the Los Alamos, New Mexico Skyliner newspaper ran a piece on what it referred to, in typical newspaper parlance, as “flying saucers”—and a possible conspiracy around them: “Los Alamos now has flying green lights. These will ‘o wisps seen generally about 2 a.m., ...read more

On June 11, 1993, Steven Spielberg’s summer blockbuster Jurassic Park opened, enthralling and terrifying moviegoers around the world. But how scientifically accurate was the film in bringing long-extinct creatures such as the T. rex, Brachiosaurus and Triceratops to life ...read more

It’s been a little over 40 years since the Rubik’s Cube was invented. And ever since, people have raced against the clock—and each other—to solve the colorful puzzle. On a Saturday morning in May 2018, in an unassuming room in a high school in Melbourne, Australia, Feliks ...read more

Millennials, it turns out, aren’t all shook up about Elvis. (Most of them wouldn’t even get the reference.) According to a news story that drew on the results of a poll of 2,034 Britons by YouGov, an Internet-based market research firm, 29 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds had never ...read more