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15 years in, only about 4% of the trees of the Great Green
Wall are actually in the ground |
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Artemis 2, Apollo 8, and Overview Thinking |
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Time travel into the future is real |
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Astronomers announced a rocky super-Earth called GJ 251 c
orbiting in a habitable zone |
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Einstein won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics, but not for
relativity |
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The ISS is held up by a controlled fall that matches the
curvature of Earth |
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Humans have visually observed less than 0.001% of the deep
seafloor |
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Pluto was discovered by a 24-year-old Kansas farm boy with no
formal astronomy degree |
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A teaspoon of a neutron star would weigh more than every human
being alive combined |
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50 kilometres above Venus' surface, temperatures and air
pressure are surprisingly close to Earth's |
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Voyager 1 will still take many thousands of years to exit the
Oort Cloud |
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Proxima Centauri b sits in the kind of orbit where liquid
water could exist on a rocky surface |
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A 14-year-old who applied to NASA and was rejected now leads
Mars exploration studies at ESA |
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Ancient Martian sediments can preserve surprisingly complex
organic chemistry for billions of years |
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Microgravity dulls smell and taste |
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Notes written on paper are recalled better than on a tablet or
phone |
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For centuries, Korean women used rice water as a beauty ritual |
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One of the oldest known written recipes is a 4,000-year-old
Sumerian clay tablet describing how to brew beer |
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Between the ages of 4 and 6, a boy is strikingly emotionally
perceptive and openly expressive |
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An Aboriginal Australian people speak a language with no words
for left or right--only for north, south, east and west |
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Highland Sardinia recorded an unusually even male-to-female
centenarian ratio |
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The Sun is white; the yellow is an artifact that exists only
inside Earth's atmosphere |
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Deep ecosystem of clams and tubeworms found, powered by
methane and hydrogen sulfide |
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Earth's magnetic field has been guiding particles stripped
from our upper atmosphere to the Moon |
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Voyager 1 will be a light day away in November |
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The one skill space demands most: staying calm when nothing
goes to plan |
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Asteroid 16 Psyche contains extraordinary amounts of iron and
nickel |
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4 Artemis II astronauts flew farther than any humans in
history |
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Yuri Gagarin believed his capsule was burning up |
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The longer any task goes on, people increasingly think about
something else |
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Roman Space Telescope is expected to discover 100,000
exoplanets |
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The 5 healthiest foods are olive oil, soybeans, yogurt,
lentils and kimchi |
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From humble beginnings, UAE now has the tallest building and a
per-capita GDP higher than Japan |
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Every Norwegian citizen effectively owns nearly $400,000 of
the sovereign wealth fund on paper |
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In 2021, Japan appointed a Minister for Loneliness--a
Cabinet-level position |
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Tattoo ink can reach lymph nodes, damage macrophages and keep
inflammation active for 2 months |
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Gold isn't rare on Earth--it's buried 3,000 kilometres too
deep to reach |
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Jupiter used to be twice its current size, with a magnetic
field 50x more powerful |
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Experienced birdwatchers have denser, more complex brain
tissue linked to attention and perception |
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We think of the universe as roughly uniform but the vast
Bootes Void is dramatically emptier |
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Voyager 1's long-dormant roll thrusters revived, preventing
communications blackout |
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The Sturtian glaciation is difficult to hold in the mind
because its scale is so out of proportion to human history |
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A world where the clouds may be made from rock-forming
minerals rather than water |
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Revised mass estimate makes planet GJ 3378b potentially
life-bearing |
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Between mid-teens and -twenties, rich collection of memories
of firsts that rarely happen again |
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1st ever atmosphere detected on a world orbiting a white dwarf |
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There is a cliff on a small moon of Uranus that is 11x deeper
than the Grand Canyon |
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390 total gravitational-wave detections with 161 added in 10
months |
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Asteroid Apophis will sweep closer than many
telecommunications satellites |
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The 'Mozart effect' grew into a national belief that classical
music makes babies smarter |
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Interview tactics to identify the one psychological trait that
determines who becomes an astronaut: adaptability |
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Dung beetle Onthophagus taurus can pull 1,141x its own body
weight |
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1 in 5 people notices the buzzing of a fluorescent light that
most other people cannot hear |
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Costa Rica reversed its forest collapse by paying landowners
to keep trees standing |
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A Vienna doctor cut childbed-fever deaths by making physicians
wash their hands |
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The Chinese Eastern Jin army was outnumbered 5 to 1, yet won
by triggering one moment of panic |
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By 2020 TOTO electronic bidet seats were installed in 80% of
Japanese households |
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Cassini was deliberately crashed into Saturn to avoid
contaminating Enceladus |
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To read a newspaper in Japan, a person needs to know 3
completely different writing systems |
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The Sun accounts for 99.86% of all the mass in the entire
solar system |
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Warning from a 10-year-old British girl saved 100 from Phuket
tsunami |
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Reward centers of dogs' brains light up more for their owners
than for any other scent |
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The mysterious light flashes astronauts reported were cosmic
ray particles crossing through their skulls |
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A Border Collie could correctly identify 1,022 different toys
by their individual names |
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The Parker Solar Probe is protected from super heat by
4.5" of carbon foam |
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'Luminous dancing fairies' are cosmic rays shooting throught
your head |
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New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto so fast that it had
less than 30 minutes to photograph |
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Stand up too fast and the stars filling your vision aren't
imaginary |
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Soviet probe Mars 3 was the 1st spacecraft to land softly on
Mars |
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In the Martian sky, sunset glows blue |
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Galileo seeing 4 moons orbiting Jupiter was a direct
contradiction that everything in the universe orbited Earth |
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Apollo crews saw one unexplained flash of light every 2.9
minutes--cosmic rays going through their eyes |
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A cockroach can survive for about a week without its head |
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Mars once had a magnetic field strong enough to deflect solar
wind |
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Not a single dark matter particle has ever been directly
confirmed |
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In the 1970s, Africa held around 90,000 lions--today, only
about 20,000-25,000 remain |
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Over a long haul in summer heat, humans have an advantage over
horses by cooling ourselves through sweat |
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A person could plausibly push off the ground on Titan and
glide through its sky |
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JWST has found evidence for thick water-ice clouds high in the
atmosphere of Epsilon Indi Ab |
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Australia's new SKA-Low telescope photographed 85 galaxies
using just 1,024 of its planned 131,072 antennas |
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Sharks survived every mass extinction for 450 million years,
yet 1/3 of them alive today are severely threatened |
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50-200 Sentinelese live in complete voluntary isolation |
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The same unexplained absorption signal found on Pluto and
Titan |
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Every one on the catastrophic Shackleton expedition came home
alive |
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The visual simulations Rip Thorne designed for Interstellar's
black hole were mathematically accurate |
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Plate tectonics theory was ridiculed by geologists until new
evidence from the ocean floor proved meteorologist Alfred Wegener right |
| 87 |
Happiness comes from getting what you want, but meaning comes
from what you give |
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Humans have visually observed less than 0.001% of the deep
seafloor |
| 89 |
Blue whales sing at frequencies so deep that killer whales,
their only natural predator, cannot hear them at all |
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A whippet can accelerate from a standstill to 56 kph in just a
few strides by leaving the ground twice in every stride |
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Bottlenose dolphins recognise the whistles of former
companions they hadn't heard for 20 years |
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The Giant Arc and the Big Ring--appear in the same region of
deep space at the same cosmic distance |
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Dinosaurs were flourishing in diverse, thriving ecosystems
right up to the asteroid impact |
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Cooling a data centre in orbit eliminates the need for cooling
towers and water |
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A radio signal takes 22 hours to arrive from Voyager 1, from a
power source the size of a car battery |
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74 distinct locations in the human genome tied to anxiety |
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Ask how many Earth-like planets there are and the answer spans
20 orders of magnitude |
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Saturn now has nearly 3x as many confirmed moons as Jupiter |
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Travel to another star at almost the speed of light and
something strange happens to time |
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If microbial life is ever confirmed beyond Earth, it would
mean life is ordinary and the universe is full of it |
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A nuclear rocket engine is being revived because it could make
the trip to Mars far shorter |
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The footprints left by Apollo astronauts on the lunar surface
will remain for 10 million years |
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Roger Penrose does not think a computer will ever be conscious |
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The largest volcano in the solar system is on Mars |
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Saturn's rings may be far younger than the planet itself |
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The Hubble Deep Field showed that an 'empty' patch of sky
contained 3,000 galaxies |
| 107 |
We think of astronauts as floating in zero gravity, but
gravity is 90% as strong as it is on the ground |
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Parker Solar Probe's record speed came mostly from gravity |
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SpaceX's Fram2 mission became the first humans ever to circle
Earth in a true polar orbit |
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NASA's Psyche spacecraft used Mars as a free slingshot |
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