The camera was made of brass and was not much bigger than a fist. Inside it were small pieces of X-ray film. At King’s College London, Rosalind Franklin and her student Raymond Gosling put a thin...
In early September 1865, Captain Thomas Musgrave and the crew of a small ship called the Flying Scud arrived at Port Ross, at the northern end of Auckland Island. Beside the ruins of a house, they...
On 2 October 2026, Igor Kobzev, the governor of the Irkutsk region in Russia, spoke to the public about a death. He talked about “a particularly dangerous infection.” He also said that “the situation...
In 1877 a woman who signed her name as Mrs. Gill arrived at Garrison, the small town on Ascension Island. She came with her husband David, an astronomer, a scientist who studies the stars and...
The request did not seem strange to him. Somewhere over Saudi Arabia, Captain Smit Machchhar’s first officer asked if he could pray in the cockpit. Machchhar said yes, and out of respect he did not...
On the morning of 27 August 1916, a small steam tug tied up at Picton Island and took on coal. Three hundred sacks came aboard, and the loading was finished in twelve hours. The next afternoon the...