Going from the Space Shuttle back to flying in capsules might feel like a bit of a step backwards, but the Space Shuttle had its problems. Problems that a new generation...
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Space has been blowing our minds from the beginning. And yet it feels like every question we answer only brings up more questions. From evidence of a parallel universe...
The metric system revolutionized the world and simplified how we measure things. But one part of our lives never quite got the metric treatment – time. The reason...
Henrietta Lacks died of cancer in 1951, but her cells mysteriously kept on living. Since then her “immortal” cell line has been the cornerstone of medical...
If we are ever going to return the atmosphere to pre-industrial levels, we have to take out some of the carbon we’ve already put into the sky. Still, carbon...