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The first woman to fly in space was not a test pilot or a scientist but a young textile worker, and in 1963 Valentina Tereshkova orbited…
At least six moons in our solar system are thought to hide oceans of liquid water beneath their frozen surfaces
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In microgravity, the human spine lengthens by as much as five centimetres, and astronauts come home temporarily taller than when they left…
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Mind & Meaning
The psychology of ambition, isolation, and meaning under extremes — and what frontier life teaches us about being human.
The Sahara sends roughly 27 million tonnes of dust across the Atlantic every year, and the phosphorus in it is what stops the Amazon's…
The human mind has no single prime age. Raw processing speed appears to peak around 18 or 19, while short-term memory improves until about…
A NASA instrument the size of a toaster, riding inside the Perseverance rover, converted Martian air into 122 grams of breathable oxygen…
The ocean produces roughly half of the oxygen humans breathe
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Many scientists have won a Nobel Prize, but only one person ever pulled off what Marie Curie did
The Sahara sends roughly 27 million tonnes of dust across the Atlantic every year, and the phosphorus in it is what stops the Amazon's…
At the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, a thousand metres down, lies a lake so lethal its discoverers named it the Jacuzzi of Despair
There's a stretch of desert in Chile so dry that a single rain event turned up in four years of instrument records, and its soil fools…
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