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Most people can hold their breath underwater for a minute or two, but a people called the Bajau can spend up to five hours a day…
A genetic mutation allows the Bajau people to spend hours underwater daily—rewriting what we thought possible about human adaptation.
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Every ninety minutes, the crew orbiting high above Earth watches another sunrise break over the planet, which means that in a single day…
The astronauts aboard experience a biological nightmare: their circadian rhythms shattered by sixteen artificial days compressed into each Earth day.
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Europa is smaller than Earth's Moon, yet the ocean locked beneath its ice contains more liquid water than every ocean on Earth combined
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The psychology of ambition, isolation, and meaning under extremes — and what frontier life teaches us about being human.
Enceladus hides a salty ocean beneath its ice but also blasts that ocean directly into space, which means a spacecraft can test water from…
Mars is usually named as humanity's most likely second home, but a NASA-funded study concluded it cannot be terraformed with present…
The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was around ten kilometres wide and hit 66 million years ago, and a 2024 study of rare metals in the…
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Enceladus hides a salty ocean beneath its ice but also blasts that ocean directly into space, which means a spacecraft can test water from…
Asteroid Apophis, named for the Egyptian god of chaos, will pass closer to Earth on 13 April 2029 than many weather satellites do
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In 2031, a JAXA capsule is due to land in the Australian desert carrying more than ten grams of dust collected from Phobos
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