Space & Missions
May 2026
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Space & Missions
Two radio astronomers spent months trying to eliminate a faint hiss in their…
Psychology
In 1955, British historian C. Northcote Parkinson wrote a satirical essay about…
Psychology
In the 1980s, an Italian student invented the Pomodoro Technique
Science & Engineering
Quote by Bill Nye: "There's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young…
Science & Engineering
Most people are solving the wrong equation
Space & Missions
In 1998 ground controllers lost contact with the Sun-watching SOHO spacecraft and…
Science & Engineering
In October 1957, Sputnik 1 crossed the sky every 96 minutes while two 1-watt…
Science & Engineering
In 1979, Voyager 1 flew past Jupiter’s moon Io and revealed active volcanoes…
Science & Engineering
In 1971, Apollo 14 astronaut Stuart Roosa carried hundreds of tree seeds around the…
Space & Missions
Five villagers were rescued from a flooded cave in Laos
Science & Engineering
I cancelled Netflix for a month and spent the time learning Claude properly
Exo Life
Tardigrades can survive being boiled, frozen to near absolute zero, blasted with…
Science & Engineering
In April 2016, a mother who had lost two children to the same disease flew to…
Universe
The Milky Way's central black hole is almost silent today, but a collision with the…
Deep Space