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‘Where we are today is frightening’: a Pulitzer-winning historian sees a doomsday scenario involving China and the national debt 0
- Banking, Business, Finance
- June 2, 2026
Liaquat Ahamed has spent his career studying the moments when the world’s financial system breaks down — the bad bets, the collective delusions, and the geopolitical accidents that tip economies into catastrophe. Right now, he says, he doesn’t like what he sees. “Where we are today is frightening,” Ahamed, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lords of
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2,500-year-old settlement found during fire station construction 0
- Archaeology, SCIENCE
- March 4, 2026
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. While a recent Iron Age discovery in northern Germany is proving itself an archaeological goldmine, local firefighters might be a bit annoyed by the find. According to the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe (LWL), construction on a new fire station
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From the first telephone to videoconferencing in 100 years 0
- Uncategorized
- March 4, 2026
Nature, Published online: 03 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00641-6 Scientists of the 1970s look to the past and future of telecommunications, and a rainbow against a blue sky dazzles a reader, in this week’s peek at Nature’s archive.
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Watch a classified FM radio training video from WW2 0
- Engineering, Military, Technology
- March 3, 2026
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. It’s worth remembering that one of today’s most commonplace pieces of technology frequently confounded the public when it first hit the marker. While fewer and fewer people are listening to FM radio today, it was hot stuff amid its
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Ancient Greece’s most famous oracle was just high on gas fumes 0
- SCIENCE, Archaeology
- March 3, 2026
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. For centuries, people traveled to Delphi in southern Greece hoping for a glimpse of their future. There, at the temple of the god Apollo, a priestess was said to enter a trance and issue prophecies in the voice of
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How infighting led the Maya civilization to catastrophic collapse 0
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- March 3, 2026
The Four Heavens: A New History of the Ancient Maya David Stuart Princeton Univ. Press (2026) Before the 1970s, ancient Maya history was impenetrable. The civilization’s grand ceremonial buildings and striking art, created in parts of Mesoamerica during the Classic Maya period (ad 150–900) had tantalized foreign visitors since the arrival of Spanish conquistadors in
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