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The environmental impact of watching one hour of video on Netflix is approximately 36…

In July 1969, Buzz Aldrin pulled a packet of bread and a vial of wine from his personal…

In 1966, Soviet chief designer Sergei Korolev died on an operating table in Moscow at…

In 1999, the Post Office began rolling out Fujitsu's Horizon accounting system across…

A volcano in Ecuador called Chimborazo sits closer to outer space than Mount Everest…

In May 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space, but only after a…

When John McFall lost his right leg at 19, no one could have known the former…

When JAXA engineers needed a self-deploying transformation mechanism small enough to…

When SpaceX described a million AI data-center satellites, each first-generation craft…

A mirror does not actually reverse left and right, even though your brain insists it…
