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We tend to imagine the Moon as a barren, resourceless rock, but the permanently shadowed craters near its south pole hold something future astronauts may prize more than gold: water ice, confirmed by NASA missions, that could one day be split into oxygen to breathe and hydrogen for rocket fuel.
In one drilled Martian rock, Curiosity found 21 organic molecules — seven never before detected on Mars — including a nitrogen-bearing ring structure that belongs to the same chemical family as precursors to RNA and DNA.
On May 11, 1997, the reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov sat down in a Manhattan office tower to play the final game of his rematch against an IBM computer called Deep Blue — and resigned in under an hour, in what may be the cleanest moment in modern history when a domain of human cognition quietly crossed over to a machine
Harry Harlow gave infant rhesus monkeys a choice between a wire mother that could feed them and a soft cloth mother built for warmth and comfort. Again and again, the monkeys clung to the cloth mother, going to the wire one only when they needed milk — a finding that helped overturn the idea that love was just hunger in disguise.
