Almost Facts: Surprising Near-Truths, Fun Myths & Fascinating Twists

Isaac Newton’s monumental impact on science is undeniable. His laws of motion and universal gravitation laid the foundation for centuries of physics. Yet, what’s rarely

The Concorde was this dazzling symbol of what air travel could have been, a supersonic phoenix rising from mid-20th-century dreams. It zipped passengers across the

Long before holograms began appearing in sci-fi movies or popping up in gadgets of the near future, the idea of capturing a three-dimensional image that

It’s wild to think that something as cold and mechanical as a Turing machine — that theoretical construct underpinning so much of modern computing —

Measuring the vastness of space isn’t just a matter of pointing a ruler and tallying up numbers. The concept of a light year—a distance light

There was a time when the compass could easily have slipped through the cracks of history—overlooked and overshadowed by flashier inventions or dismissed as a