Human Factors
June 2026
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Human Factors
The world's longest direct passenger flight is between New York and Singapore
Deep Space
A teaspoon of material from a neutron star
Human Factors
If the universe is infinite — which current cosmology suggests is genuinely…
Human Factors
The last person on Earth who had been married to a Civil War veteran was still…
Space & Missions
Tom Mueller spent nearly two decades building the Merlin and Draco engines that…
Science & Engineering
Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood that carries oxygen using a copper-based…
Science & Engineering
In 1977, a radio telescope in Ohio called Big Ear picked up a 72-second signal so…
Science & Engineering
The sun accounts for about 99.86% of all the mass in the solar system, which means…
Science & Engineering
Naked mole-rats age so slowly, resist cancer so well and survive oxygen loss so…
Universe
3I/ATLAS is only the third confirmed interstellar object ever detected passing…
Science & Engineering
Antarctica is the largest desert on the planet, because a desert is defined by how…
Earth & Life
Centralia, Pennsylvania has burned underground since 1962, and the unsettling…
Human Behaviour
The 1983 made-for-TV film 'The Day After' was watched by an estimated 100 million…
Constellations
Earth quietly picks up tiny second moons from time to time, small asteroids briefly…
Science & Engineering