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about 12 hours ago

One Light-Day From Home: Voyager 1's Next Milestone Image: artist's illustration of a Voyager probe — NASA Somewhere out beyond the edge of the Sun's influence, a machine the size of a small car is still phoning home — and next month

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3 days ago

The Jellyfish That Refuses to Die Most animals get one life, lived in one direction: born, grow up, grow old, die. One tiny jellyfish never got that memo. Meet the immortal jellyfish. Turritopsis dohrnii…

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6 days ago

The Blue Blood That Keeps Your Vaccines Safe Every vaccine, every IV drug, every surgical implant you will ever receive was tested by an animal that has barely changed in 450 million years. Blue blood. Horseshoe crabs…

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9 days ago

How Tesla Taught a Car to Fly: Inside the Roadster's Thrusters The most interesting thing about Tesla's flying Roadster isn't that it jumps over trucks. It's how . Suction, not wings. To drive upside down on a curved ramp, the…

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12 days ago

You Are 99.9999999% Empty Space Right now, you are reading this through eyes that — strictly speaking — aren't really there. You, your phone, the chair you're sitting on, the planet under your feet:…

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14 days ago

The Planet That Spins Backwards Every planet in our solar system spins on its axis — and nearly all of them spin the same direction: counterclockwise, as seen from above the North Pole. Every planet, that is…

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18 days ago

The Cities of Life That Thrive Without Sunlight The Cities of Life That Thrive Without Sunlight In 1977, the submersible Alvin dropped nearly three kilometers below the Pacific, to a rift off the Galápagos Islands. The…

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