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Hollywood exaggerates Martian storms in a specific and measurable way: because Mars’s atmosphere is roughly 100 times thinner than Earth’s, a 60-mph gust would push an astronaut about as hard as a gentle 6-to-8-mph breeze on Earth.
Nearly a mile beneath South Dakota, the 10-tonne LUX-ZEPLIN detector recorded a single high-energy xenon recoil for which researchers found no likely background explanation—the experiment’s most intriguing dark-matter candidate yet, although its 2.6-sigma significance remains far short of a discovery.
Americans discarded more than 12 million tons of furniture in a single year, and barely any of it was recycled — a modern sofa combines foam, fabric, wood, metal and glue so tightly that taking it apart can cost more than the recovered materials are worth
A newly formed nonprofit plans to launch the first spacecraft deliberately targeted at another star system by 2029 for under $15 million—knowing its 80,000-year journey will end in the distant outskirts of Alpha Centauri long after everyone involved is dead.
