Apollo astronauts trying to sleep on the way to the Moon kept seeing flashes and streaks in the dark, and the cause turned out to be cosmic rays from deep space passing straight through their eyes.

Apollo astronauts trying to rest on the way to the Moon kept noticing the same thing in the dark.

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A bankruptcy can be 'annulled' rather than discharged in Australia — legally erased as if it never existed — and a $540 million debtor pulled it off in 2018

In 2018, one of the largest personal bankruptcies in recent Australian history quietly disappeared.

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A 49-foot bowhead whale killed by Iñupiat hunters in May 2007 was found to have been carrying a Victorian-era harpoon in its shoulder for approximately 120 years, evidence that the whale was at least 115 years old at the time of its death, because bowhead whales are the longest-lived mammals on Earth, with peer-reviewed lifespan estimates exceeding 200 years

The discovery happened in the routine course of an Iñupiat subsistence hunt off the coast near Utqiaġvik, the northernmost settlement in Alaska.

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The crypto con called 'pig butchering' gets its chilling name from livestock — scammers spend months 'fattening' victims with daily good-morning texts before the slaughter

Most pig butchering begins with a message that looks like a mistake — a text meant for someone else, landing on a stranger's phone.

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Carl Jung observed that the things we cannot stand in other people — the small irritations that seem disproportionate, the people we find ourselves unable to forgive — are almost always reflections of the parts of ourselves we have not yet acknowledged, in a quiet psychological pattern he called the shadow, and the surprise is that doing the work of meeting it tends to soften nearly every difficult relationship a person carries

Think for a moment about the person in your life whose presence costs you the most energy.

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Researchers tracked 122 people for three months and found that on days they visited more varied places, they tended to report feeling a little more positive

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Apollo astronauts trying to sleep on the way to the Moon kept seeing flashes and streaks in the dark, and the cause turned out to be cosmic rays from deep space passing straight through their eyes.

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The Apollo astronauts who carried lunar dust back into the cabin kept making the same strange report — fresh Moon dust smelled like spent gunpowder — yet the smell never survived the trip home, and more than fifty years later no one has fully explained what they were breathing in up there.

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Scientists drilling into sediment beneath the South Pacific Gyre pulled up microbes from seabed layers as old as 101.5 million years. Starved in one of the poorest habitats on Earth, many of the cells were still viable: when given nutrients under oxygen-bearing laboratory conditions, they repaired their metabolism, took up carbon and nitrogen, and began to multiply. They are among the oldest microbial communities ever revived from dormancy.

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Beneath Oregon’s Blue Mountains, a single honey fungus has been spreading through the roots of the forest for thousands of years, now covering nearly 10 square kilometres. Mostly hidden underground and betrayed at the surface by dying trees and seasonal mushrooms, it is one of the strongest contenders for the largest living organism on Earth.

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Scientists drilling into sediment beneath the South Pacific Gyre pulled up microbes from seabed layers as old as 101.5 million years. Starved in one of the poorest habitats on Earth, many of the cells were still viable: when given nutrients under oxygen-bearing laboratory conditions, they repaired their metabolism, took up carbon and nitrogen, and began to multiply. They are among the oldest microbial communities ever revived from dormancy.

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In 2019, BaFin banned short-selling in Wirecard shares for two months and filed criminal complaints against the Financial Times reporters investigating its accounts, the first time Germany’s market regulator had shielded one listed company that way

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Beneath Oregon’s Blue Mountains, a single honey fungus has been spreading through the roots of the forest for thousands of years, now covering nearly 10 square kilometres. Mostly hidden underground and betrayed at the surface by dying trees and seasonal mushrooms, it is one of the strongest contenders for the largest living organism on Earth.

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Nearly three kilometres beneath a Canadian mine, geologists found water that may have been isolated in the rock for roughly two billion years — older than animals, plants and almost everything we think of as complex life. The brine was so salty and bitter that, when one researcher tasted it, she was sampling a flavour shaped by a world humans never knew

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Apollo astronauts trying to sleep on the way to the Moon kept seeing flashes and streaks in the dark, and the cause turned out to be cosmic rays from deep space passing straight through their eyes.

A bankruptcy can be 'annulled' rather than discharged in Australia — legally erased as if it never existed — and a $540 million debtor pulled it off in 2018

The crypto con called 'pig butchering' gets its chilling name from livestock — scammers spend months 'fattening' victims with daily good-morning texts before the slaughter

Researchers tracked 122 people for three months and found that on days they visited more varied places, they tended to report feeling a little more positive

Apollo astronauts trying to sleep on the way to the Moon kept seeing flashes and streaks in the dark, and the cause turned out to be cosmic rays from deep space passing straight through their eyes.

The Apollo astronauts who carried lunar dust back into the cabin kept making the same strange report — fresh Moon dust smelled like spent gunpowder — yet the smell never survived the trip home, and more than fifty years later no one has fully explained what they were breathing in up there.

In 2019, BaFin banned short-selling in Wirecard shares for two months and filed criminal complaints against the Financial Times reporters investigating its accounts, the first time Germany’s market regulator had shielded one listed company that way

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