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Phil Plait

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5 Top Breakthrough Medical Technologies and How They Changed The World

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Five Female Inventors and how Their Inventions Changed the World

NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins, Expedition 38 flight engineer, participates in a spacewalk on Dec. 24, 2013. (Credit: NASA)

Astronaut

Rather than super-geniuses or super-athletes, NASA’s looking for super-roommates who also happen to be very good scientists.

Do You Have What It Takes To Be an Astronaut?

Mars 3

Here’s why the Mars 3 mission deserves more acclaim than history ever gave it.

50 Years Ago, a Forgotten Mission Landed on Mars

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Wisconsin Historical Society archaeologists, assisted by divers from the Dane County Sheriff's Office, recovered the historic canoe from Lake Mendota on November 2, 2021

Dugout Canoe

After being exhumed from the depths of a lake, this 1200-year-old dugout canoe has a long way to go before it's properly preserved. 

Preservation Work Begins On Dugout Canoe Found At The Bottom of Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota

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Unlike coffee, whisky dries leaving an almost entirely uniform stain. Now researchers have exploited this property to make memristors.

How Glenlivet Whisky Became The Crucial Component in Greener Electronic Elements 

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