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In space, the human heart shrinks within days as gravity's load disappears
NASA’s Deep Space Network can detect a signal as weak as a billionth of a billionth of…
On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit Earth, returning a hero
The average human ingests roughly a credit card's worth of plastic every week
Einstein’s relativity allows time travel into the future, and we have already measured…
A Mexican salamander that can regrow entire limbs does something stranger than healing
Birds are not descended from dinosaurs — they are dinosaurs, a living branch of the…
A 2012 University of Westminster study measured horror-film viewers burning about 113…
A single teaspoon of neutron star material would weigh about four billion tonnes on…
Leafcutter ants don't eat the leaves they carry home in long green columns
