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The Huygens probe descended by parachute to the surface of Titan in 2005, through an orange haze colder than minus 170 degrees Celsius, and more than a billion kilometres from home it remains the only spacecraft humanity has ever landed anywhere in the outer solar system
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▲ 0 · May 22
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A Colorado startup just raised $30 million to send a second rover to the Moon — and the real bet isn’t on exploration, it’s on becoming the construction crew that arrives before the astronauts do
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▲ 0 · May 22
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The Soviet Lunokhod 1 rover went silent on the Moon in 1971, then scientists found its lost reflector in 2010 and got a signal bright enough to reopen a forgotten corner of lunar science
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▲ 0 · May 22
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JWST just mapped the morning weather on a planet 690 light-years away, and the forecast of sand-like clouds exposed a 100-fold bias in how exoplanet atmospheres have been read for more than a decade
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▲ 0 · May 22
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Dante imagined a catastrophic planetary impact in striking geological detail 500 years before science understood how asteroids work — and it took a researcher reading the Inferno to notice
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▲ 0 · May 22
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Apple just rolled out hearing tests on AirPods Pro and hypertension alerts on Apple Watch to a new wave of countries — including India, Italy, and Taiwan — putting clinical-grade health screening in the pockets of users in more than 160 countries around the world
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▲ 0 · May 22
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The third-largest Ebola outbreak on record is spreading through DRC and Uganda — and aid workers, former USAID officials, and global health experts say recent US funding cuts have made detection and response significantly harder
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▲ 0 · May 22
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A new species of mosasaur named Tylosaurus rex — twice the length of a great white shark, with finely serrated teeth and evidence of violent combat against its own kind — has just been identified from 80-million-year-old Texas fossils that had been sitting in museums for decades
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▲ 0 · May 22
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In 1970 a Soviet probe became the first object ever to transmit from the surface of another planet, and it lasted barely 23 minutes on Venus before the heat killed it
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▲ 0 · May 22
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Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury are lining up in the western sky after sunset this week — and a Blue Moon is sliding past Antares — in a run of evening sky events that won’t be matched again for years
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▲ 0 · May 22
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The Hubble Space Telescope was launched before Google, before the smartphone era, and before digital cameras became normal, and NASA engineers have now reconfigured it to keep observing the universe on a single working gyroscope after 35 years aloft.
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▲ 0 · May 22
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The satellite that has been tracking Earth’s wildfires for 24 years is running out of fuel to dodge debris — and when it finally can’t, the climate record it spent two decades building goes with it
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▲ 0 · May 21
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Our galaxy may be full of planets identical to Earth at formation that turned into uninhabitable hellscapes — and the one sitting next door to us has been so thoroughly ignored that a leading researcher called it criminally underexplored while we spent decades looking at Mars
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▲ 0 · May 21
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The Wow! Signal lasted 72 seconds in 1977, has never been detected again, and remains the most compelling unexplained candidate in the history of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
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▲ 0 · May 21
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America is preparing to land humans on the Moon while quietly proposing to terminate 53 science missions, lay off thousands of researchers, and cancel every partnership with Europe — and calling what remains a leaner, more focused program
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▲ 0 · May 21
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Voyager 1 is still transmitting from more than 24 billion kilometres away, but in 2024 NASA had to repair it by remotely moving pieces of 46-year-old code around a failed memory chip — a software patch sent into interstellar space and confirmed nearly two days later.
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▲ 0 · May 21
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Why are so many of us still awake at midnight watching something we don’t even care about? Researchers call it “revenge bedtime procrastination” — a self-regulation failure driven by a need to reclaim the autonomy a demanding day took away
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▲ 0 · May 21
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The international space station has had continuous human presence for over twenty-five years. The daily habits that made that possible are almost embarrassingly ordinary, which is perhaps precisely why they work
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▲ 0 · May 21
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When Soviet cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev launched to Mir in May 1991, the country that sent him was still the USSR; by the time he returned in March 1992 it no longer existed, his home city of Leningrad had become Saint Petersburg, and even the spaceport that launched him — Baikonur — was now inside newly independent Kazakhstan, forcing Russia to renegotiate access to the machinery of its own space program
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▲ 0 · May 21
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Complex animal life may be 10 million years older than scientists thought — and a new fossil site in northwestern Canada suggests it all started in the deep sea, not the shallow waters where most early fossils show up
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▲ 0 · May 21
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Scientists just reversed about 80% of aging in elderly mice in a single month — and they did it by boosting one protein
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▲ 0 · May 21
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NASA astronaut Doug Wheelock said the thing he missed in orbit was the smell of grass and trees and on his return he found those ordinary aromas “intoxicating”. Most of us have never stopped to notice we have them
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▲ 0 · May 21
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Scientists may have finally cracked why 90% of humans are right-handed — and the answer has nothing to do with our hands, it has to do with our legs
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▲ 0 · May 21
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T. rex didn’t evolve tiny arms because its body got bigger — it evolved tiny arms because its jaws got more powerful, according to a new study of 82 meat-eating dinosaur species that found the same pattern repeating across giant predators
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▲ 0 · May 21
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The deepest hole humans ever drilled into Earth reached 7.6 miles beneath Soviet Russia, where unexpected heat helped defeat the drill and left the Kola Superdeep Borehole capped in rusting steel
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▲ 0 · May 21
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The international space station runs on a five-day work and two-day rest schedule deliberately mirroring the rhythm of an earth working week and the reason isn’t sentimental
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▲ 0 · May 21
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A joint European-Chinese satellite just went up on Vega-C, and the images it returns could change how scientists understand Earth’s magnetic shield
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▲ 0 · May 21
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SpaceX’s IPO filing isn’t just about rockets: the prospectus points to an AI infrastructure pivot that could reshape how investors value the company
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▲ 0 · May 21
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The astronauts on the International Space Station see 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets every day, and the question of when to sleep, when to pray, and when to celebrate birthdays has caused genuine philosophical problems for every space agency that has ever sent humans up there
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▲ 0 · May 21
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Astronaut Chris Hadfield says confidence on the ISS didn’t come from optimism — it came from what he calls the power of negative thinking, the practice of working out your most likely failure points before you start
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▲ 0 · May 21