Stories by Stratoscope

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

Mid-level Nvidia employee gets $62M in stock options; another lost it all

Amazon virtually kills efforts to develop Alexa Skills

Someday, Earth Will Have a Final Total Solar Eclipse

An image of Calif.'s Point Reyes National Seashore launched Pixar to stardom

Cash-strapped Argentines queue for eyeball scans

Why are kids being forced to eat lunch in silence?

How Hertz's bet on Teslas went horribly sideways

The Rise and Fall of 3M's Floppy Disk (2023)

Entire town is hidden in giant 750ft deep cave and residents refuse to move

Retrotechtacular: The IBM 7070

The roller ship was not an effective way to cross the high seas

Santa Cruz del Islote, where more than 800 people live on a 2.4-acre island

The gas mask-wearing ultramarathoner circling the Salton Sea

While Earth enjoys an eclipse, a NASA probe is ready to 'touch the sun'

How the Lunar Rover Batteries Worked–and Nearly Failed–On the Moon

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