Stories by Stratoscope

Kilometer-tall skyscrapers to double as batteries

FBI Takes Down Global Army of Zombie Computer Devices

The hero of summer on the American River is a California man with a snorkel

Witnessing the spectacle of synchronous fireflies is 'like magic'

How private equity rolled Red Lobster

The California park employees who work on plane crashes and shipwrecks

Invisible Women: On the Victorian Custom of Cutting Mothers Out of Portraits

The dark heart of modern chess

Silicon Valley is enamored with a company that pumps poop underground

MFJ ceases on-site production in Starkville, Mississippi

101-year-old traveler listed as baby because of airline software glitch

Light stands still in a deformed crystal

Sexsomnia: An embarrassing sleep disorder no one wants to talk about

Alameda: The Island That Almost Wasn't

Everything Hikers Know About Lightning Safety Is Wrong

This 'treasure' rewrote California history. It was an elaborate hoax. (2021)

Cicadas are coming, bringing mysteries that fungus scientists hope to study

The Legacy of the Datapoint 2200 Microcomputer

Ingenuity has a last gift for humanity, but we'll have to go to Mars to get it

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