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August 2026
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Human Factors
A Tokyo train company issued a public apology in 2017 because one of its trains…
Science & Engineering
Ötzi the Iceman has been frozen for 5,300 years and kept in a chilled room at minus…
Earth & Life
The Italians named it Devil's Valley because of the steam pouring straight out of…
Human Factors
In the driest desert on Earth lies a landscape so hostile it resembles Mars
Earth & Life
Wildfire smoke is made of particles large enough to scatter away blue light and let…
Universe
After twelve years and more than seven billion kilometres, Voyager 2 arrived at…
Science & Engineering
The Voyager 1 probe, launched in 1977, crossed into interstellar space in 2012
Human Factors
Thought of the day from Henry David Thoreau
Science & Engineering
NASA engineers cannot physically reach Voyager 2 and must wait about 20 hours for…
Earth & Life
South Korea planted more than ten billion trees after the Korean War
Science & Engineering
Two habitable-zone planets now sit within 11 light-years of Earth
Science & Engineering
ESA's Gaia telescope has mapped a giant wave rippling outward from the Milky Way's…
Science & Engineering
Saturn's moon Mimas looks like a dead, cratered rock
Culture
Step into an elevator in a Korean hospital or apartment block and the fourth-floor…
Science & Engineering