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Modern humans interbred with Neanderthals before they disappeared, and most people of non-African ancestry still carry roughly 1 to 4…
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Sweden is moving parts of an Arctic city because decades of iron mining are deforming the ground beneath it
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Visitors steal tons of petrified wood from Arizona's Petrified Forest every year, and hundreds mail pieces back with letters blaming bad…
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NASA lost a $125 million spacecraft at Mars because one engineering team used English units while another expected metric
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Freshwater shrimp kept for twenty hours at a caffeine concentration detected in highly polluted rivers spent less time in the dark than…
The high tanks held 10,000 nanograms of caffeine per litre and the low tanks held 100, two levels chosen because both occur in real rivers. There was no caffeine-free group at all, so what the experiment measures is the distance between those two numbers.
Floating Steel
In 1912, the Titanic sailed legally with 20 lifeboats and places for 1,178 people, because Britain's rules put every ship of 10,000 gross…
A ship that exceeded every safety rule of its time still couldn't save everyone—a gap that would reshape maritime law forever.
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NASA lost a $125 million spacecraft at Mars because one engineering team used English units while another expected metric
On June 8, 1985, cosmonauts Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Viktor Savinykh manually docked with Salyut 7, which had drifted silent and powerless…
Astronauts on the space station have no washing machine, because water is far too precious to waste on laundry, so they wear the same…
About 70 young stars sit inside one dark knot of gas in the Carina Nebula
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Mind & Meaning
The psychology of ambition, isolation, and meaning under extremes — and what frontier life teaches us about being human.
In 2021, Blue Origin challenged NASA’s decision to award SpaceX its first crewed lunar-lander contract
Four giant three-toed prints found in 2025 near Marmarth, North Dakota turned out to be the first trackway ever attributed to an adult T…
The torch of the Statue of Liberty has been closed to the public since 1916, when German saboteurs blew up a munitions depot nearby and…
Starship stands roughly as tall as a 40-storey building and carries more than 5,000 tonnes of liquid methane and oxygen
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Physics, climate, planetary science, and the research that shapes how we understand the universe.
In 2021, Blue Origin challenged NASA’s decision to award SpaceX its first crewed lunar-lander contract
Freshwater shrimp kept for twenty hours at a caffeine concentration detected in highly polluted rivers spent less time in the dark than…
Four giant three-toed prints found in 2025 near Marmarth, North Dakota turned out to be the first trackway ever attributed to an adult T…
Adult females of a millipede newly described from the Kazakh Altai have almost no second pair of legs, the subadult females still have…
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