Daily Archives: Mar 16, 2026

Even up to our time big-game hunters can get everything right, get the game, make a steady rest, press a clean trigger, and still get a lengthy and doubtful trail when the cartridge cannot drive a hunting bullet deep enough to strike life-giving organs at bad angles. The present bullets...

When an object comes into the solar system the problem is not merely to observe it, but to measure it quickly, in many wavelengths, so as to make brief glances into permanent information. Comet 3I/ATLAS has made that challenge come into sharp focus. Not a single confirmed interstellar object has...

The world of handguns is where ‘it should work’ cartridges reside cartridges with storied histories, low recoil, and clever design that make them sound like viable defensive options. The problem is, it’s a mechanical issue, not a poetic one: in a short-barreled handgun, small cartridges simply can’t penetrate deeply...