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Tardigrades survived 10 days of open space in a 2007 European Space Agency experiment, exposed to raw solar radiation and a vacuum that would rupture human lungs, and some of them came home and laid viable eggs.
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We assume loneliness comes from having no one around, but UCLA researchers found people can feel most isolated inside crowded social lives—when every relationship stays warm on the surface and reaches nothing underneath
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When a Harvard study pinged thousands of people at random moments, minds were wandering elsewhere nearly half of all waking hours — and people were measurably less happy while their attention was away than while it stayed where their body was
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In the 1930s bedbugs had nearly vanished from developed homes, and their global comeback since the late 1990s is traced largely to the insects evolving resistance to the very insecticides that once wiped them out
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In 1854, John Snow removed the handle from a single water pump on Broad Street in Soho and the cholera outbreak that had killed 616 people in ten days effectively stopped, a decision made decades before anyone accepted that water could carry disease.
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In August 1965, a tiny island called Singapore was forcibly expelled from Malaysia with no natural resources and a population poorer than most African nations — and within sixty years had transformed into one of the wealthiest countries on Earth
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Every volcano on Earth is supposed to form in one of three ways — and Mount Etna, the most active volcano in Europe, fits none of them: it sits over a subduction zone but erupts the lava of a hotspot that isn’t there, and geologists have spent decades unable to say why
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Octopuses have nine brains, three hearts, and blue copper-based blood, and roughly two-thirds of their neurons live in their arms, meaning each limb can taste, decide, and problem-solve without checking in with the central brain.
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We tend to think a full year should feel long, but memory researchers find the brain stores mainly what is new — which is why the years feel shorter as life grows predictable and the internal camera quietly switches off
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▲ 0 · Jul 20
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Psychologist John Bowlby developed attachment theory after the World Health Organization commissioned him in 1950 to study children orphaned across post-war Europe, finding early separation left marks that lasted decades
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▲ 0 · Jul 20
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Psychologists distinguish being liked from being known, and the two run on separate skills: warmth and good questions can be performed for anyone, but being known means letting one person see the parts you have no charming version of
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▲ 0 · Jul 20
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Shanay-Timpishka, a boiling hot river 700km from the nearest active volcano
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