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Astronauts on the ISS watch 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets a day, and many say the hardest thing to describe back home is how thin the…
The International Space Station circles Earth about once every 90 minutes. That orbital rhythm gives its crew roughly 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets in every 24-hour day, each one arriving and disappearing in seconds.
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The Sahara turns green roughly every 20,000 years, and the last time it did, hippos and crocodiles lived in lakes where there is now only…
The Sahara has not always been the dry barrier familiar today. During its most recent humid interval, grasslands, wooded savanna, wetlands and lakes spread across large parts of North Africa.
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Astronauts on the ISS watch 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets a day, and many say the hardest thing to describe back home is how thin the…
Voyager 1 has no engine running. The 38,000-mile-per-hour speed it has held since its Saturn flyby in 1980 is borrowed momentum from…
A planet orbiting twin suns was directly photographed in 2025, hugging its two stars six times closer than any other world ever found in a…
In 1984, Soviet cosmonaut Oleg Atkov flew a portable ultrasound to Salyut 7 and became the first doctor to image a human heart shrinking in…
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Mind & Meaning
The psychology of ambition, isolation, and meaning under extremes — and what frontier life teaches us about being human.
An AI searched nearly 100 million old Hubble images in two and a half days and found 1,300 cosmic oddities
A primitive dwarf galaxy with almost none of the heavy elements found in the Milky Way is somehow producing iron and silicon-carbide dust
Flint tools, scorched soil and two pieces of spark-producing pyrite suggest humans were deliberately making fire in Britain 400,000 years…
In 1866 a single undersea cable finally held across the Atlantic, and a message that once took eleven days by ship crossed the ocean in…
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Physics, climate, planetary science, and the research that shapes how we understand the universe.
An AI searched nearly 100 million old Hubble images in two and a half days and found 1,300 cosmic oddities
Flint tools, scorched soil and two pieces of spark-producing pyrite suggest humans were deliberately making fire in Britain 400,000 years…
The Sahara turns green roughly every 20,000 years, and the last time it did, hippos and crocodiles lived in lakes where there is now only…
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