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The little blue pill prescribed today around the world for erectile dysfunction was originally developed in the early 1990s by Pfizer as a treatment for chest pain — and during the early trials, the male volunteers reported a side effect they were extremely reluctant to give up.
The most commercially successful pharmaceutical product of the late 20th century was, in essential respects, invented by a group of…
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Sister Mary, a Catholic nun who belonged to the School Sisters of Notre Dame and died at 101 with her memory and reasoning fully intact, was one of 678 nuns enrolled in a 30-year study of brain aging by the American researcher David Snowdon — and her autopsy revealed a brain riddled with the plaques and tangles of advanced Alzheimer's disease
Sister Mary should not, by any reasonable interpretation of late-20th-century Alzheimer's neuropathology, have been able to teach seventh…
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The record Apollo 13 set for the farthest humans had ever travelled from Earth was never meant to be a record — it was a survival manoeuvre after an explosion, and Artemis II quietly surpassed it on a clear April morning in 2026
SpaceX launched 165 Falcon 9 rockets into orbit in 2025 — nearly one every other day — accounting for roughly 85% of all U.S. orbital launches and almost twice as many orbital launches as the entire nation of China managed that year.
NASA has already watched dormant herpes viruses, including the one behind chickenpox and shingles, reactivate in astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Artemis II has now carried that question into deep space: more than 252,000 miles from Earth, the crew collected saliva samples to test whether radiation, isolation and distance trigger the same hidden immune response beyond low Earth orbit.
In April 2026, four Artemis II astronauts flew farther from Earth than any humans in history, reaching 406,771 kilometres from home — breaking a record Apollo 13 had held since 1970, without Artemis II ever landing on the Moon.
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The record Apollo 13 set for the farthest humans had ever travelled from Earth was never meant to be a record — it was a survival manoeuvre after an explosion, and Artemis II quietly surpassed it on a clear April morning in 2026
NASA has already watched dormant herpes viruses, including the one behind chickenpox and shingles, reactivate in astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Artemis II has now carried that question into deep space: more than 252,000 miles from Earth, the crew collected saliva samples to test whether radiation, isolation and distance trigger the same hidden immune response beyond low Earth orbit.
On November 14, 2004, a Top Gun graduate named Commander David Fravor flying off the coast of San Diego encountered a smooth white 40-foot object shaped like a Tic Tac candy that hovered above a churning patch of ocean — and when he tried to close on it, the object mirrored his flight path and accelerated beyond visual range in seconds
The little blue pill prescribed today around the world for erectile dysfunction was originally developed in the early 1990s by Pfizer as a treatment for chest pain — and during the early trials, the male volunteers reported a side effect they were extremely reluctant to give up.
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