Tom Scott

London’s cramped City Airport, located in the heart of the city, is undergoing a massive upgrade, including the…

Cloudflare provides security and domain name services for millions of the most prominent sites on the web. The…

One of the biggest engineering challenges of building a towering skyscraper isn’t keeping the structure from falling…

Tom Scott took a pair of DJI Phantom 3 drones to the University of Manchester’s High Voltage Laboratory, where they…

So before you feel tricked by a technicality: Inuktitut does have a written language, but it’s just not an alphabet.…

A few hundred miles off the coast of Ghana is Null Island—the point of zero longitude and zero latitude. It’s not a…

So you’re watching sportsball, and your team wins. The stadium fills with confetti, and the broadcast starts to look…

Nuclear fusion holds promise as a safe, clean source of energy to power our future. We’re probably decades away from…

IPv4, the internet address system born out of the birth of the internet, serves as a cautionary tale to always plan…

Both global warming and the popularity of downhill skiing are on the rise, a trend that probably seems a little…

I’ve always wondered exactly who is buying Train Simulator 2015, because driving around virtual heavy machinery…

Most big cities in the world grow over time; a few notable exceptions have sprouted pretty much out of nowhere. But…

Galco’s Soda Pop Stop is a store in Highland Park, LA, with shelves full of an incomprehensible array of soda (and…

The water rights that govern how California’s water gets used are not the easiest things in the world to understand;…

The EAGLE Project isn’t some neo-Nazi project to bring a cloned Hitler to life; rather, it’s trying to simulate a…

As it turns out, one sixteen-character garbage URL is enough to bring Google’s mighty browser crashing to its knees.…

Sometimes a simple smile or frown is enough to convey the emotion of a sentence. But for those times when you need a…

Normally, you wouldn’t think of a vehicle used to clean rivers as being particularly cool. But I challenge you to…

Tom Scott, of the incredibly useful “Things You Might Not Know” has a bone to pick with teleporters. As Scott points…

I haven’t seen every singe bridge in the world, so I’m not happy calling this bridge-ferry-gondola hybrid the…