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When Soviet cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev launched to the Mir station in May 1991 from Baikonur in the Kazakh SSR, he was a citizen of the Soviet Union, and when he finally landed 311 days later the country that sent him had dissolved, his home city of Leningrad had been renamed St Petersburg, and his monthly pay was worth almost nothing
In 1868, a French astronomer studying a solar eclipse from India spotted a yellow spectral line at 587 nanometres that matched no element known on Earth, and the gas — named helium after the Greek word for the Sun — would not be isolated in a terrestrial laboratory for another 27 years
Brazilian study identifies four Flavobacterium species in 11 aquaculture isolates
UC Riverside physicists show thermal cameras could boost LIGO sensitivity by 31% and double its survey volume
Psychology says people who reread the same novels every few years aren’t stuck in nostalgia, they’re checking who they’ve become against a fixed emotional landmark that doesn’t move when they do
How did a captured wartime rocket fired from a New Mexico desert in 1946 return the first photograph of Earth from above the atmosphere, decades before any satellite reached orbit?
Does consciousness collapse the wave function?
Exosomes, Hypothalamus, and the Body Clock
ETH Zurich handheld breath sensor detects fat-burning marker acetone nearly as accurately as lab mass spectrometry
How did hunter-gatherers in southeastern Anatolia quarry, carve, and raise 20-tonne T-shaped limestone pillars into ringed enclosures roughly 6,000 years before Stonehenge, without metal tools or the wheel?
How did a Central American country smaller than West Virginia go from one of the worst deforestation rates on Earth to doubling its forest cover in a single generation?
The dairy industry spent a decade betting on fermentation tanks to replace cows — and a handful of plant biologists just found a cheaper shortcut hiding inside ordinary crop leaves
A cheap generic antidepressant just outperformed placebo for long COVID fatigue with 99% confidence — and the diabetes drug tested alongside it did nothing at all
The Great Barrier Reef isn’t dying solely from heat the way many assume — the deadly rhythm of back-to-back bleaching events is now outpacing its ability to recover
The flu virus doesn’t just infect cells — it quietly dismantles a nuclear structure most biologists barely study, and that turns out to be the whole point of how it replicates
A private Indian rocket just carried a lab-grown diamond lotus to orbit, and the payload manifest quietly reveals what New Delhi actually wants from its space startups
A single aspen clone in Utah called Pando covers 106 acres, weighs about 6,000 tonnes, and shares one root system that makes it a single organism roughly 14,000 years old, quietly dying now from mule deer eating every young shoot before it can grow
While the rest of the world braces for longer wildfire seasons, Africa’s fires have been quietly retreating for 20 years — and the reason has almost nothing to do with climate policy

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