Stoicism was a test of control, not a mood
Stoicism sorts what you can act on from what you cannot. A Vietnam prisoner of war and Roman rebels both lived by that test.
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Eyewitness memory holds up only if tested once, says Wixted
A witness's first identification, taken early and carefully, can be reliable. Every test after that risks changing what they remember.
How Louis Braille turned army night writing into a six-dot code
At 15, Braille reworked a soldier's code of raised dots into a six-dot cell blind people could read and write. He died before it spread widely.
ZDNET picks Bitdefender as the best antivirus for 2026
ZDNET names Bitdefender its top antivirus pick for 2026, but Microsoft advises against running a second antivirus alongside Windows Defender.
Richard O'Sullivan, star of Man About the House, dies at 82
The actor played Robin Tripp in Man About the House and then Robin's Nest. His screen career began at eight, in the 1953 thriller The Yellow Balloon.
Rochdale's mill workers wrote the rulebook co-ops copied
The Rochdale Pioneers were not the first co-op, but their 1844 rules on dividends, votes and cash-only trade became the model co-operatives copied worldwide.
The geometry lecture that waited 61 years for Einstein
Bernhard Riemann's 1854 lecture on curved space sat mostly ignored for decades before Albert Einstein built general relativity on its ideas in 1915.
Switzerland's fourth language split into five mountain dialects
Switzerland has four national languages. In Graubünden's isolated valleys, Romansh split into five dialects, and it has since lost half its speakers.
Cambodia refilled its classrooms with anyone who could teach
After the Khmer Rouge killed or drove out most educators, Cambodia put anyone with some schooling in front of a class after weeks of training.
KPop Demon Hunters became Netflix's most-watched title ever
Sony capped its return at roughly $20 million when it sold the film to Netflix. Young fans then did the marketing, and it passed Squid Game.
Kristen Bell hosts the Actor Awards for a third time
Bell renamed nominees in her opening monologue. Ten days earlier, the Sonic the Hedgehog makers named her the voice of Amy Rose.
What the Large Magellanic Cloud gives astronomers
The Large Magellanic Cloud sits close enough for astronomers to resolve single stars, and far enough to double as a ruler for the universe.
Kendrick Lamar started GNX long before the Drake feud
Producer Sounwave says the earliest GNX songs were recorded in late 2022 and early 2023, long before the Drake feud began.
Kimi Antonelli wins the Italian Grand Prix from 19th
The Mercedes driver took an engine penalty, then won at Monza. Two days earlier he told the Guardian that F1 can be very brutal.
Australia's Stolen Generations survivors still wait on redress
Nearly 30 years after the Bringing Them Home inquiry, the Healing Foundation says Stolen Generations survivors still lack records, care and redress.
Lee Strasberg turned Stanislavski's system into the Method
Lee Strasberg, teacher of Brando and Clift, reduced Konstantin Stanislavski's acting system to one idea, emotional truth, and called it the Method.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day carries Marvel's hopes for a rebound
Spider-Man: Brand New Day has opened to split reviews, and Sony is banking on it to reverse three underwhelming Marvel films.
A hydrogen fuel cell sends electrons round a wire to make power
A fuel cell splits hydrogen into protons and electrons, sends the electrons round a circuit and makes water. It can beat a petrol engine on efficiency.
Corn on the cob needs five minutes, or no boil at all
Delish boils corn for about five minutes. Serious Eats tested more than 60 samples and heats it to 180°F instead. Here is how each method works.
US importers pay the tariff, then pass part of it to shoppers
A US tariff is paid by the importer at the border. Federal Reserve research found at least 30% of 2025's China tariffs reached shelf prices, slowly.
A university GPA is a weighted average, not a raw one
A GPA multiplies each grade by its course's credits, adds the results, then divides by the total credits attempted across the whole term.
Pirate radio stations keep coming back after raids
Pirate radio stations split the studio from the transmitter and hide aerials on rooftops. Raids and seizures have not always kept them off the air.
A heat pump moves heat, which is why it works far below freezing
A heat pump carries heat from outdoor air into a home rather than burning fuel. That lets it run far below freezing, and run backwards to cool a room.
UK press regulator IPSO decides where a correction must run
IPSO, the UK press regulator, sets how prominent a newspaper's correction must be, in print and online. Rulings on The Sun and the Press & Journal show how.