Stonebreen’s Beating Heart
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NASA Selects Vast for Sixth Private Mission to Space Station
Credit: NASA NASA and Vast have signed an order for the sixth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, targeted to launch no earlier than summer 2027 from Florida.…
Humans really don’t need chins
Auguste Rodin’s The Thinker is one of the art world’s most recognizable images. The monumental depiction of a man hunched forward, right hand resting against his chin, is synonymous with…
Elephants are smart. So are their whiskers.
An elephant’s trunk is a wonder of evolution. Gentle, yet dextrous, it can pick up solid items, help them communicate, and be a helpful showering tool. Inside, 1,000 whiskers give…
NASA Moon Mission Spacesuit Nears Milestone
4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) A NASA crew member practices using lunar tools to collect geology samples at NASA’s Johnson Space Center during an…
The oldest-known humpback whale recording was hiding in an archive
In 1970, a single record would change history. It wasn’t the latest album from The Who or Rolling Stones, but the musical stylings of a pod of humpback whales (Megaptera…
Human head transplants’ gory, Frankenstein-esque history
In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, a mad scientist creates a monstrous creature with severed body parts. In certain film adaptations, a dismembered head is tacked onto the malformed body. Then, with…
Reaching Top Speed in the Dolomites
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Medieval elite still received fancy burials despite disease stigma
Wealth confers privilege, and for many people during the Middle Ages, this privilege extended into the afterlife. For centuries, rich Christians often flaunted their money by purchasing gravesites as close…
NASA Completes First Flight of Laminar Flow Scaled Wing Design
3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s Crossflow Attenuated Natural Laminar Flow (CATNLF) scale-model wing flies for the first time on a NASA F-15 research…