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I used to treat boredom as a problem to be solved and now I treat it as a signal, which sounds like a small reframe until you realise it…
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There's a real mutation nicknamed the "Hercules gene"
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In 1980 NASA had to choose between sending Voyager 1 past Titan or keeping it on a course that could reach Pluto, and it picked Titan…
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When a NASA microphone recorded the first sounds on Mars in 2021 it found something unexpected
The thin Martian atmosphere doesn't just muffle sound—it scrambles it, separating high and low frequencies as they travel.
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Chernobyl’s exclusion zone, emptied of most human activity after the 1986 nuclear disaster, is now home to abundant populations of wolves…
Nature's paradox: the world's most radioactive region has become a thriving wildlife sanctuary, with wolf populations flourishing at seven times the rate of protected reserves.
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A 2026 study modelling Europa's interior finds its seafloor is probably too quiet for the hydrothermal vents that support life in Earth's…
Voyager 2 passed Neptune's moon Triton in 1989 and photographed it erupting, a discovery scientists called the flyby's biggest surprise
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The psychology of ambition, isolation, and meaning under extremes — and what frontier life teaches us about being human.
Chernobyl’s exclusion zone, emptied of most human activity after the 1986 nuclear disaster, is now home to abundant populations of wolves…
A 2025 study tested whether impacts could keep Titan’s methane skies alive and found that a 20-kilometre object released up to 1% of the…
A 2026 study modelling Europa's interior finds its seafloor is probably too quiet for the hydrothermal vents that support life in Earth's…
A tiny freshwater hydra shows no measurable signs of aging, and when Daniel Martinez tracked three cohorts of them at Pomona College for…
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There's a real mutation nicknamed the "Hercules gene"
In the early 2000s about one in a hundred published cancer research papers showed signs of coming from a fraudulent paper mill, and by 2022…
A newly identified order of Australian marsupials survived in Queensland rainforests for more than 35 million years, and it vanished so…
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