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Aug 13, 2026
No male population on Earth grew taller last century than Iranian men, who gained 16.5 centimetres between the 1896 and 1996 birth cohorts…
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Encyclopaedia Britannica recently introduced English speakers to fjaka, the Dalmatian art of doing absolutely nothing, and if the word…
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In 1961 President Kennedy picked Ed Dwight to become America's first Black astronaut candidate, but NASA never selected him, so he spent…
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Titan is the only world besides Earth with an active liquid cycle
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Pando, a single quaking aspen in central Utah, is one organism made of about 47,000 genetically identical trunks sharing a root system that…
A single quaking aspen in central Utah — 47,000 trunks, one root system, roughly 6,000 tonnes — is likely the heaviest living thing on Earth and, at 14,000 to 80,000 years old, among the oldest. Genetics is finally pinning down how it has held together for that long.
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The popular claim that every star you see is already dead is the opposite of true
The light from every star is old, but naked-eye stars are nearby and their lives are vastly longer than the delay. The familiar night sky is not a stellar graveyard.
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A planet nearly 700 light-years away has clouds that form on its cooler morning side and disappear by the time the atmosphere reaches its…
Neptune's largest moon Triton travels around its planet backwards, orbiting in the opposite direction to Neptune's rotation
Titan is the only world besides Earth with an active liquid cycle
In 2014, Blue Origin patented the idea of landing a rocket vertically at sea, before it had launched a single orbital rocket, then used the…
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Mind & Meaning
The psychology of ambition, isolation, and meaning under extremes — and what frontier life teaches us about being human.
Spending more time near crewmates in extreme isolation doesn't necessarily make people feel better
The popular claim that every star you see is already dead is the opposite of true
A 2025 reanalysis of the original Wow! signal found it was even stronger than astronomers had thought. One new explanation is extraordinary
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Pando, a single quaking aspen in central Utah, is one organism made of about 47,000 genetically identical trunks sharing a root system that…
The popular claim that every star you see is already dead is the opposite of true
Halley’s Comet will return to the inner solar system and reach perihelion on July 28, 2061. Its next return after that won’t come until 2134
Earth has had eight continents all along
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