Behold the Sculptor galaxy
Google the Milky Way and you’ll find plenty of images of the galaxy that we call home. You may not realize that none of those images, including the ones…
Author: The Smart Reader Staff
Briefs and quick reads selected and edited by The Smart Reader's editorial team of Rick, Allyson, and Ryan Good.
Can’t please the everyone
National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore has had a lot of challenges since he first began photographing the world’s animals in a studio setting. His…
TSA’s strange rules
Traveling by air this summer? Remember there are things you can bring on the plane and things you can’t. If flying domestic, you can bring in live…
Chance meeting makes history
Who knows what would have happened if Paul McCartney had a dentist appointment on July 6, 1957? But it so happens the 15-year-old was free to see the…
How to know what is really a nut
Peanuts are neither the nuts of peas, nor peas, and, in fact, they are not even nuts. According to Live Science, the nut category of food has a lot of…
FTC drops case against Microsoft’s big video game deal
It’s official: Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of the video game giant Activision Blizzard is settled after the U.S. Federal Trade Commission dropped…
Gadget guide: High-tech hiking
High-tech outdoor gear has never been better and the market is flush with great new gadgets to suit everyone from casual weekend campers to experienced…
Greenland’s natural resource is really cold
Here’s a pressing question: Is ice that has been squeezed in a glacier for 100,000 years better than ice that comes out of your fridge? Now you can find…
Yellowstone volcano wears a cap
Researchers have discovered that the supervolcano inside Yellowstone has a helpful cap that holds in heat and pressure, but also vents enough so that the…
Researchers notice odd debris on Cornish island
Since 2013, researchers in the United Kingdom have noticed something odd on the tiny, uninhabited island of Mullion, off the south coast of Cornwall. An…