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Cuttlefish passed a version of the marshmallow test |
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Even at noon Titan sits in permanent dusk |
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Rescuers concluded the 2 cosmonauts on Soyuz 23 were dead but
11 hours later the men opened the capsule themselves |
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The navigation technique that brought Apollo 13 home, timing a
14-second engine burn with a wristwatch, was later made mandatory training |
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Lunar module Snoopy was sent into orbit around the Sun when
fuel ran out |
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Soviet robot attempting to bring lunar soil home 1st crashed,
ending the Soviet-US race |
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A godwit flew 7,250 miles nonstop, going 8 days without
landing, eating or drinking |
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New female-friendly toilet installed on the ISS |
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Soviet space station Salyut 7 brought back to life by hand |
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Neptune has the strongest winds in the solar system |
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The 1st and still only 3-person spacewalk in history was to
grab a free-flying spacecraft by hand |
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Japan turned walking slowly through the woods into a
public-health idea |
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1st stellar-mass black hole directly detected in Omega
Centauri |
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The Antikythera mechanism was a hand-cranked mechanical
computer unmatched for 1000 years |
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The ancient aliens theory claims extraterrestrials built the
pyramids, but all evidence points back to ordinary Egyptians |
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A war fought in orbit will not stay between the 2 countries
that start it |
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Gene Cernan traced his daughter initials into the lunar dust,
which can remain intact for millions of years |
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Sugar may not make children hyperactive |
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The faint whisper of neutrinos from every supernova that ever
exploded |
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Astronauts with only 4 hours of training took the 1st
diagnostic X-rays ever captured in orbit |
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Titan runs the same weather cycle as Earth except the liquid
doing all the work is methane |
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Starship needs to solve the engine relight problem |
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Nearly half of S Korea's citizens share just 4 family names:
Kim, Lee, Park and Choi |
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The 1st diagnostic X-rays ever produced in space |
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A spacecraft landed on a surface with liquid nearby--on Titan |
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Britain intercepted Luna 9's signal and published the 1st
lunar photo before Moscow developed its own |
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5 raw or undercooked red kidney beans can trigger severe
vomiting |
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In rural China, women created a script known as "women's
writing" |
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Denmark's concept of hygge has no exact English equivalent |
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Luna 17 lander driven at a slow walking pace with a 2.5-second
delay |
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A Vietnamese cave so vast it holds its own jungle, river and
weather |
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At new and full moon, alignment of the sun, moon and Earth
produce the biggest high and low tides |
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Price of putting a kilogram into orbit will fall from $3,868
last year to $273 by 2040 |
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That you learn best as a 'visual' or 'auditory' learner found
not how we learn |
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Cosmonaut stayed in orbit so long that the country which
launched him collapsed |
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Money can buy happiness if you spend it on someone else |
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Saturn has a 6-sided storm system wider than Earth |
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Distinctive whale call near 52 hertz, substantially higher
than the stereotyped calls of blue and fin whales |
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Voyager thrusters asked to work again after 37 years |
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While the oldest light travelled toward us, the space
separating us from its source continued to expand |
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Hubble's was repaired by giving it corrective glasses |
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S Korea spent 20 years and large funding to get its citizens
to have more children |
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People with a positive view of aging live 7.5 years longer |
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At the speed of our fastest spacecraft a trip to the closest
star would last longer than recorded human civilization |
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Carl Sagan was denied tenure at Harvard but Cornell hired him |
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Mercury's craters near its poles contains water ice surviving
for billions of years |
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Vast ancient routes elephants still remember and the human
borders now cutting through them |
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Cosmodog Laika died within hours when the thermal control
failed |
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During the deepest dive to the bottom of the ocean, a plastic
bag was sighted |
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Your blood is never blue but a trick of light |
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Radio signals have expanded into space for a century but
crossed only a tiny distance of the galaxy |
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The corner-cube reflectors left on the moon 50 years ago help
confirm the moon is drifting away from Earth by 3.8 cm/year |
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Apollo 12 was struck by lightning twice within a minute of
launch and survived |
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Jane Goodall overturned the long-held belief that only humans
made and used tools |
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Voyager 1 crossed the edge of the Sun's protective bubble |
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A man who couldn't read invented a writing system for the
Cherokee people |
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Line up every planet in perfect alignment and their combined
tug on the ocean is smaller than a passing weather front |
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The meaning of 'meme' is a metaphor so precise the internet
proved it true 30 years later |
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Titan holds hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than
Earth |
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Scientists searching for alien life are looking to Europa |
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On Titan the mountains water ice while the seas are liquid
natural gas |
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The Sun outweighs the Moon by a factor of 27 million, yet
contributes only 46% of Earth's tidal force |
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The tide rises because the ocean bulges on both sides of Earth
at once |
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The Earth's inner core grows by a millimetre a year |
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99.999% of Earth's gold and platinum sank into the core during
the magma ocean phase 4.5 billion years ago |
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The universe is supposed to have no preferred direction or
special axis |
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Cosmos was the most widely watched series in American public
TV history |
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A new US government science council investigating UFOs created |
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Europa is smaller than the Moon, yet its ocean contains more
liquid water than every ocean on Earth combined |
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Red dwarfs and white dwarfs offer some of the clearest places
to search for their infrared heat |
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The oldest human-made object still circling Earth is expected
to keep orbiting for another few centuries |
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Voyager 1 thrusters reactivated that had been unused for 37
years |
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Dogs do not see the world in black and white as commonly
assumed |
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A stand of trees found that had been missing from the living
world for millions of years |
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The clearest signs that most of the universe is made of
something we cannot see |
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We tend to assume Earth is a rare cosmic fluke |
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Elephants communicate through vibrations in the ground at
frequencies below human hearing |
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Crows remember individual human faces and warn other birds
about dangerous people |
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Prairie dogs alarm calls encode what kind of animal is coming,
its color, size and how fast it moves |
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The most consequential strip of water on the planet is the
Strait of Hormuz |
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The gut and brain are in constant two-way communication |
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Tianwen-2 has reached a small fast-spinning asteroid |
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Earth's gravity is a hidden anchor for consciousness |
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JWST may have found "black hole stars" |
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Everything we know about the Earth's core comes from
earthquakes |
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Earth hides an innermost core inside its inner core |
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NASA's Curiosity rover has been operating on Mars since 2012 |
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A single London to New York flight delivers roughly 37
microsieverts of cosmic radiation |
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A stand of living trees found that matched 90-million-year-old
fossils: Wollemi pine |
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Voyager 1 will take another 300 years to reach the inner edge
of the Oort Cloud |
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The first total solar eclipse visible from mainland Spain in
more than a 100 years |
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India was the first Asian nation to enter Martian orbit and
succeed on its maiden try |
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A T. rex unearthed in S Dakota could sell for $30 million at
auction |
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Both passive and active social media use were linked to rising
loneliness |
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The faint hiss in their antenna was not a fault but the
afterglow of the Big Bang |
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Vitamin B12 is synthesised only by bacteria and archaea |
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The human body synthesises roughly 1 gram of creatine a day |
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'Paper satellites' are satellites claimed on paper years
before a single one launches |
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2/3 of active satellites in orbit now belong to SpaceX |
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In space, the human heart shrinks within days |
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Astronauts returning from long missions can struggle because
the brain must relearn a gravitational world |
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Juno survives dives through Jupiter's radiation belts by
hiding its brain inside a titanium vault |
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Voyager 1 had less memory than a typical phone photo |
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Most of the matter associated with galaxies is not in anything
we can see |
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NASA's Deep Space Network can detect a signal as weak as a
billionth of a billionth of a watt |
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The simplest amino acid coerced into forming peptides, the
building blocks of proteins |
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A queen honeybee can live for several years, while worker bees
may live for only 6 weeks |
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Astronauts insist space has a smell |
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New Horizons flew past Pluto so quickly that an encounter 9
years in the making was effectively over within hours |
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Yuri Gagarin returned a hero--but authorities had also
prepared a statement in case he did not survive |
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