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Voyager's signal now reaches Earth as a whisper |
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A super-Earth just 25 light-years away is genuinely worth
searching for signs of life |
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Europa contains twice as much liquid water as every ocean on
Earth combined |
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Spaceflight flattens the back of the eye and blurs vision |
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Earth's inner core is an iron-rich ball as hot as the surface
of the Sun |
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Most common type of planet is larger than Earth, smaller than
Neptune, with an unearthly atmosphere |
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People ingest a credit card's worth of plastic every week |
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The total weight of all the ants on Earth rivals the combined
weight of all wild mammals and birds |
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Antarctica is classified as a desert because it receives less
precipitation than the Sahara |
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Einstein's relativity allows time travel into the future |
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The axolotl reopens parts of its embryonic blueprint and uses
it to completely rebuild what was lost |
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A photon can spend thousands of years bouncing in the Sun
before it ever escapes the surface |
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Birds are not descended from dinosaurs--they are dinosaurs |
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Horror-film viewers burn as many calories as a short walk |
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Sputnik's success caused such a panic that the US poured
federal money into science, maths and foreign-language education |
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Trails of ants are drawn in scent, not sight--each ant lays a
chemical line the next follows |
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Nearly every atom in your body is swapped out over the years |
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90% of hard cheese made in the US is now set with an enzyme
grown in a vat |
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A teaspoon of neutron star material would weigh about 4
billion tons on Earth |
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S Korea was poorer per person than Ghana but it dramatically
reversed within 1 lifetime |
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252 million years ago, volcanoes wiped out 90% of marine
species |
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Evidence of a Moon-sized world orbiting the Sun 4.5 billion
years ago, then vanished |
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Every chemical component needed to build RNA was present in
the early solar system |
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English communities closer to the coast reported better
general health |
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Earth's inner core is not rock but a sphere of solid iron-rich
metal |
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TRAPPIST-1 hosts 7 Earth-sized planets--including 3 orbiting
where liquid water could survive |
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Venus turns so slowly that a single day there lasts longer
than its entire year |
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Leafcutter ants feed leaves to an underground fungus they farm
and eat |
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A handwritten list of every alarm code prevented aborting the
Moon landing |
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A potential way for deep-space crews to reduce mass for
radiation shielding |
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Ants can carry 50 times their body weight |
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An octopus has 3 hearts, blue blood; 2/3 of neurons spread
through its arms |
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An asteroid struck somewhere north of Australia yet scientists
still cannot find its crater |
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Mars produces the largest dust storms in the solar system,
which is what killed Opportunity rover |
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America's loneliness problem may be due to suburbs, cars and
homes built for private family life |
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S Korea's postwar miracle was built by family empires who
equal more than 40% of GDP |
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Large parts of Antarctica were once covered in temperate
forest |
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Titan's nature is much like our own but the liquid is methane
and the ground is water frozen hard as stone |
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The olm salamander can go up to a decade without eating and
lives more than 100 years |
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If you compressed Earth's history into a calendar year, humans
appear at 11:36 pm on the 31st of December |
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Over a million were shut in their rooms across Japan |
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Mars as a stepping stone rather than a destination |
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A Moon-sized world orbited the young Sun more than 4.5 billion
years ago, then vanished |
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Casting new doubt on 'Planet Nine'--a giant, unseen world
tugging at the most distant orbits |
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Europa may lack the very energy that life would need to
survive |
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Crab Nebula, a thousand-year-old explosion still visibly
unfolding |
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2 humpback whales crossed more than 14,000 kilometres between
Australia and Brazil |
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Birth of a magnetar--a newborn neutron star so magnetic it
could wipe every credit card on Earth from halfway to the Moon |
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Gorilla named Koko learned more than 1,000 signs and
understood 2,000 spoken words |
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The early universe was already messy and mature when it should
still have been simple |
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Enceladus sprays out the same chemical fuel that feeds life in
Earth's deepest oceans |
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The largest dinosaur ever found in Southeast Asia was hiding
in plain sight |
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The bond between humans and pets is biologically real |
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New Zealand granted legal personhood to the Whanganui River |
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China became only the 2nd nation to recover an orbital-class
booster |
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The human kidney filters 180 litres of plasma a day |
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The Sun ejects a billion tons of charged plasma in a coronal
mass ejection |
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The only human voyage ever made from one space station to
another |
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German rocket startup signed a Nova Scotia launch-site
agreement |
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T. rex took 40 years to reach its full size |
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Europe's Euclid telescope found 31 of the oldest quasars ever
seen |
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Fossils of trilobites, sea lilies and tiny crustaceans have
been found just below the top of Mount Everest |
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Waymo announced fully driverless taxis for 4 more American
cities |
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Scott Kelly left with signs of lasting chromosome damage after
stay at ISS |
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Reflect Orbital's proposed 50,000-satellite system could raise
the natural night-sky background by 200%-300% |
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Heavier short-video use was linked to poorer attention, weaker
impulse control and more stress |
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An AI-focused data centre consumes as much electricity as
100,000 homes |
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On August 2, Europe's AI law gains full power to fine |
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Subsurface oceans could be preserved for billions of years,
heated not by sunlight, but by the repeated gravitational flexing of their orbits |
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Mountain gorillas build immense muscle on leaves and stems,
powered by gut microbes |
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SpaceX has asked to place 100,000 Gen3 satellites into 20
orbital shells |
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Dogs have leapt from the same spot on Scotland's Overtoun
Bridge, eventually traced to the scent of mink living below |
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Dimethyl sulfide, a life-linked gas, detected at the possible
ocean world K2-18b |
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Voyager 1 revealed the boundary of interstellar space is more
complicated than predicted |
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If fuel lines fail, Voyager could lose the thrusters that
keep its antenna aimed at Earth |
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Sub-Neptunes, the most common type of planet, can forge their
own water oceans by reacting hydrogen atmospheres with molten rock in their cores |
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OpenAI opened its most powerful system yet to the
public--GPT-5.6 |
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Titan nature is like Earth's, except its liquid is methane and
its rocks are frozen water ice |
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Clearest predictor of who stays healthy and content is the
quality of their relationships |
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Zebras evolved their stripes not for camouflage or heat, but
as a living insect repellent |
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Earth's magnetic field has flipped hundreds of times |
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A supermassive black hole called RBH-1, weighing 10 million
Suns, was flung from its galaxy |
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The Milky Way may contain trillions of rogue planets drifting
without close stars |
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In a Viking Age town in Sweden, a warrior assumed to be male
was found by DNA to be female |
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A solar storm sent currents surging through telegraph wires,
allowing transmission with batteries disconnected |
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A missed overbar above one letter in the Mariner 1 guidance
code caused the rocket to be destroyed |
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Papua New Guinea has 840 living languages, more than any other
country and more than all European countries combined |
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Saturn's rings are so young that dinosaurs would have looked
up at a ringless planet |
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East Asian skin vs. Caucasian skin wrinkling |
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The two Voyagers left the Sun's bubble six years apart, yet
found its edge at nearly the same distance |
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Beresheet crashed on the Moon with thousands of dormant
tardigrades aboard |
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Falling in love with a machine is no longer science fiction |
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Bots have overtaken humans on one of the internet's largest
networks |
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The average American spends over 3 hours a day on a phone |
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A century before the first computer existed, a young
Englishwoman wrote the first computer algorithm |
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Only about 1 in 5 workers worldwide feels truly engaged at
work |
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3D maps of Earth that can be refreshed within a day or
sharpened to 15 cm built for autonomous drones and weapons |
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Returning astronauts describe their spine suddenly forced to
support the body's weight again |
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Buzz Aldrin published a memoir admitting that coming home from
the Moon had nearly destroyed him |
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For most of the last century, the fear was too many people;
that has now flipped |
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The inner-ear organs that tell your brain which way is down
work without you noticing--until orbit switches them off |
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Spaceflight turns off the inner ear and relies almost entirely
on the eyes |
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The first commercial spacecraft ever cleared to carry a
nuclear power source under the FAA |
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A fake satellite signal could hijack navigation with
off-the-shelf parts |
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Returning from spaceflight is the hard part |
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A passenger jet aborted its landing because of false data |
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Spoofing a GPS receiver is worse than jamming it because the
victim never knows |
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A homemade GPS spoofer costing a few thousand dollars used to
steer an $80 million superyacht off course |
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The first commercially built nuclear-powered satellite ever
launched |
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The Soviet Venera 9 sent back the first photograph ever taken
from the surface of another planet |
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