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The only war on record in which birds officially won |
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UK's 4 day work week experiment |
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Sea Launch idea revived by low Earth orbit constellations and
feara of fixed targets |
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Planetary defense stopped being theory and became something we
have actually done |
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A cluttered desk suppresses the visual cortex, making it
harder to focus |
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The most Earth-like rocky world ever found in a habitable zone |
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2/3 of people live in countries having too few children to
hold their populations steady |
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In an experiment, 2 groups were paid to lie about a tedious
task |
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A 2-week mindfulness course cut mind-wandering and lifted
reading-comprehension |
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The phenomenon called emotional loneliness |
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Clearest predictor of who stayed healthy and content is the
quality of their relationships |
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The respect you earn within face-to-face circles predicts
well-being |
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Your fingerprints begin forming before birth |
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Doing kind things for others or the world lifts flourishing
more than self-focused treats |
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Imagination is a private laboratory where the future sometimes
arrives first |
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Urban birds let men get about a meter closer than women |
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Who we are trying to be now may decide which pieces of our
past we get to remember |
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Italy is losing population so rapidly that it will have nearly
5 million fewer |
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A 24,000-year-old microscopic animal brought back to life |
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The Sahara Desert was a green savanna 6,000 years ago |
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Frozen body found of a man who had been murdered 5,300 years
ago |
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The lowest natural temperature ever recorded was -89.2¡C
(-128.6¡F) |
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Black hole TON 618 is more massive than every star in the
Milky Way galaxy combined |
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A plastic water bottle takes 450 years to decompose |
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We're convinced everyone notices our flaws |
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The kind of sentence that means nothing until it suddenly
means everything |
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A polluted Singapore tidal estuary transformed into a
freshwater reservoir |
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On Neptune and Uranus, crushing pressure creates showers of
solid diamond |
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2 Straits grow so shallow that it endangers oil supertankers |
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Seoul removed a major roadway, resulting in a 639% increase in
biodiversity, 35% drop in air pollution |
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People can deliberately reshape their personality |
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A 4,000-year-old cave contained 23 ancient fireplaces, traces
of a child and processing copper ore |
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Bemotrizinol absorbs both UVA and UVB rays, newly added by FDA
to sunscreen |
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Frequent incidental movement linked to better metabolic and
cardiovascular health |
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Marine life survives in shipping lanes that see 1,000 vessels
pass every day |
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PFAS were added to pizza boxes for decades |
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The narwhal's spiraled tusk is actually an inside-out canine
tooth |
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The US will be at the bottom in life expectancy by 2030 |
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The Singapore Strait is one of the busiest and most
pirate-prone waterways |
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European governments are preparing for a world without
American satellite intelligence |
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Voyager record carries a message built to survive long after
the civilization that made it |
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Sperm whales produce the loudest sound made by any animal |
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Whaleship rammed and sunk by a sperm whale inspired Moby-Dick |
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What separates a happy life from a meaningful one? |
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Why chocolate is now being grown in a lab in West Sacramento |
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Population will likely peak near 10.3 billion in the
mid-2080s, then shrink |
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The lining of the human stomach completely replaces itself
every 3-5 days |
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Anxiety symptom is heritable and shows significant genetic
overlap with heart disease, gut disorders and migraine |
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Claude Fable 5 is the first Mythos-class AI released to the
public |
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1 in 5 expect fewer children than they want, blocked by cost,
insecure work and fear of the future |
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The first direct demonstration that time itself moves at
slightly different rates depending on how fast you are traveling |
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'Possible selves,' the versions of us we hope, expect, or fear
to become |
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The Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains, an Alpine-scale range
buried beneath kilometres of East Antarctic ice |
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European governments preparing for a world without American
satellite intelligence |
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The popular claim that space tastes like raspberries and
smells like rum based on... |
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Japan deaths outpacing births 2 to 1 |
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The Asian giant hornet delivers a sting so concentrated that
50 people die annually in Japan |
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Dog owners tended to live longer--strongest for those living
alone |
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At 18, the brain processes information faster than it ever
will again |
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The eastern brown snake is responsible for the majority of
Australia's snakebite deaths |
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The Big Bang was space itself expanding everywhere at once |
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ESA's Huygens probe landed on Titan, the only spacecraft ever
to land in the outer solar system |
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Pioneer 10 was faintly transmitting in 2003 on a 30-year-old
transmitter weaker than a refrigerator bulb |
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Money stops buying happiness with no ceiling, only a steady
climb |
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Apollo Guidance Computer wove its software into physical
memory by threading copper wire through tiny magnetic cores by hand |
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X-ray telescope could spend 2 years tracing oxygen, iron,
magnesium, aluminum and silicon across the Moon |
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1 tank, 2 thrusters and a quiet rewrite of how cubesats are
designed |
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Testing whether an electric field alone could do the job
everyone assumed only gravity could |
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Those with a positive view of aging lived more than 7 years
longer |
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The fungus Ophiocordyceps unilateralis infects carpenter ants,
hijacks their nervous system |
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The need to feel valued runs deeper than we think |
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Bottom-quartile performers greatly overestimated their
percentile |
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Close relationships associated with better later-life
wellbeing |
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In 240 BCE, Eratosthenes used shadows and geometry to estimate
Earth's circumference |
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The next space race may be to bring home the first untouched
samples from Mars, Phobos and ancient asteroids |
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Only 66 years separate the Wright Brothers from the Apollo 11
moon landing |
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One of the most mathematically elegant defenses in the natural
world: periodical cicadas |
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375-million-year-old transitional fossil named Tiktaalik
bridged the evolutionary gap between water and land |
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Piraha language challenges linguistic universals |
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Vacationers were happier in anticipation before the trip that
largely faded once they got home |
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IQ-test scores have fallen in several countries |
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Warning people 10,000 years from now about buried nuclear
waste realising no language can be trusted to last that long |
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Drop a hammer and a feather where there is no air and they hit
the ground at the same instant |
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Boredom might be a failure of attention--wanting to engage
your mind and being unable to |
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Measured from its base on the ocean floor to its summit, Mauna
Kea is the tallest mountain on Earth |
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By 2030, Korean women will become the first in histor with a
life expectancy over 90 years |
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Everyone you love lives on less than a pixel |
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Apple-sized rocks the central Pacific contain more cobalt and
manganese than all known land deposits |
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It takes 50 hours to feel like casual friends, but more than
200 before someone becomes a close one |
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In 1995, 14 wolves were brought from Canada and released into
Yellowstone |
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No recent collision or active nucleus explains W2246f galaxy's
split personality |
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Negative feelings tend to fade with age while positive ones
hint at quiet contentment |
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A figurine and plaque listing 14 dead American and Soviet
space travellers left on the lunar surface |
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More free time tracked with greater happiness up to a point |
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5 astronauts spent hours hiding inside a Dragon capsule while
the ISS leaked |
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Facebook users were paid to deactivate for 4 weeks, reported
life satisfaction; when the experiment ended, most returned to Facebook anyway |
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Body-length rain shields called knups woven from bamboo and
banana leaf |
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The smell after a rain is called petrichor |
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It takes 50 hours of contact for 2 adults to feel like casual
friends, ... |
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After 8 weeks of mindfulness training, gray matter density in
the hippocampus increased |
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Starlink, AI data centers and Mars inside one company, SpaceX |
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99.999% of the seafloor covering 2/3 of our planet has never
been observed by anyone |
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The FCC just did what SpaceX was fighting to prevent |
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Deep inside Neptune, the pressure crushes carbon into actual
diamonds |
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NASA plans to put a nuclear reactor on a Mars-bound spacecraft
by 2028 |
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Sunsets on Mars glow blue rather than red |
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Pando, a single quaking aspen in central Utah, is the heaviest
living thing and one of the oldest |
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People lingered about 2.5 minutes before switching computer
screens, but two decades later, the average collapsed to 47 seconds |
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After half a century, astronomers have caught the Milky Way's
central black hole exhaling |
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China is no longer treating orbital computing as a stack of
startup pitch decks |
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