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Blue Ghost's upright landing mattered because it preserved the power, communications and instrument geometry needed to operate for 346 hours of lunar daylight.
National publicity—and a dramatic photograph of the river's much larger 1952 fire—turned the brief 1969 blaze into an enduring symbol of America's water-pollution crisis.
The military's greatest acoustic achievement may be its greatest gift to marine biology: a spy network designed to hunt submarines now reveals the secret conversations of whales.
A global surveillance network built to hear what no nation can hide: the unmistakable signature of a nuclear explosion, anywhere.
A hidden flaw in one of Manhattan's most iconic buildings nearly triggered catastrophe—and a secret midnight repair job kept the city in the dark.
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