Science & Engineering
June 2026
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Space & Missions
In November 2011, NASA launched a car-sized rover called Curiosity toward Mars on a…
Space & Missions
In April 1970, three American astronauts aboard Apollo 13 were 320,000 kilometres…
Earth & Life
In 1987, Costa Rica's forest cover had collapsed to roughly 21% of the country, and…
Human Behaviour
For 24 years, the Soviet Union had used the world chess championship as proof of…
Human Factors
In 1610, the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei pointed a small telescope at…
Human Factors
The most statistically dominant career performance in any major sport on Earth was…
Human Behaviour
Why people replay old conversations, and why no single explanation fits everyone
Human Factors
Stanford psychologist Laura Carstensen found that when older adults were asked to…
Human Factors
MIT researchers tested participants from age 10 to 71 and found something they…
Space & Missions
There is no permanently dark side of the Moon
Universe
The hundreds of human skeletons scattered around Roopkund Lake at 5,029 metres in…
Science & Engineering
Some of the water sitting in your glass is older than the Sun having formed inside…
Psychology
A University of Toronto study found that chasing happiness can make people less…
Science & Engineering
For decades, scientists repeated as established fact that bacteria in the human…
Space & Missions