In 1965, a 30-year-old cosmonaut named Alexei Leonov became the first human to walk in space — and somewhere in the middle of the live broadcast, while the world was watching the Soviet Union's greatest propaganda triumph, mission control quietly cut the feed, for reasons that wouldn't be publicly known for almost thirty years

On 18 March 1965, at 07:00 GMT, the Soviet spacecraft Voskhod 2 lifted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome carrying two cosmonauts: Pavel Belyayev, the mission commander, and Alexei Leonov, then thirty years old, the man assigned to make the first spacewalk in human history.

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The copper canisters Finland chose to seal its nuclear waste are expected by some scientists to begin corroding within centuries — but the engineers buried them anyway at 430 metres, because the 1.9-billion-year-old rock surrounding them was there before complex life existed on Earth

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The copper canisters Finland chose to seal its nuclear waste are expected by some scientists to begin corroding within centuries — but the engineers buried them anyway at 430 metres, because the 1.9-billion-year-old rock surrounding them was there before complex life existed on Earth

A new meta-analysis suggests omega-3 may reduce both hot-headed reactive aggression and the cooler, planned kind — and researchers say the finding is consistent across demographics

Brain scans of new fathers show measurable changes — which might explain why so many dads describe the first year of parenthood as feeling like learning to be a different person

Psilocybin research is no longer just for hard-to-treat cases — a new trial targeted recurrent depression in people who had not failed standard treatment, and the results are promising

Embedded in the Voyager Golden Record’s Sounds of Earth montage are the brainwaves of Ann Druyan, recorded soon after she fell in love with Carl Sagan — a private meditation on human experience now drifting through interstellar space, waiting for a listener who may never come.

Embedded in the Voyager Golden Record’s Sounds of Earth montage are the brainwaves of Ann Druyan, recorded soon after she fell in love with Carl Sagan — a private meditation on human experience now drifting through interstellar space, waiting for a listener who may never come.

The gold in an ordinary wedding ring was not made on Earth, or even inside an ordinary star, but in the most violent events in the universe, the collisions of dead stars and the flares of magnetised neutron stars, long before the Sun was born and the cloud that became our solar system took shape.

Earth is quietly dusted with thousands of tonnes of space material every year, most of it as grains smaller than sand — and some of it can be sifted from the grit of ordinary roof gutters, tiny meteorites hiding in plain sight in cities.

The makers of the Voyager Golden Record could not assume an alien would understand minutes or seconds, so the playback speed engraved on its cover is defined against a single, unchanging frequency of the hydrogen atom — a clock written into the physics of the universe.

A new meta-analysis suggests omega-3 may reduce both hot-headed reactive aggression and the cooler, planned kind — and researchers say the finding is consistent across demographics

Psilocybin research is no longer just for hard-to-treat cases — a new trial targeted recurrent depression in people who had not failed standard treatment, and the results are promising

The gold in an ordinary wedding ring was not made on Earth, or even inside an ordinary star, but in the most violent events in the universe, the collisions of dead stars and the flares of magnetised neutron stars, long before the Sun was born and the cloud that became our solar system took shape.

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