Pass the Cigars, NASA

• The Possibility of Life Beyond Our Solar System Just Got a Lot Slimmer
• How Will Humanity React to Alien Life? Psychologists Have Some Predictions
• What Happens If China Makes First Contact?
• Astronomers Want to Send a Probe to That Interstellar Asteroid, But There’s a Catch
• The Strange, Lumpy World…

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And No Russian Doubt?

• How the Apollo 11 Crew Reacted to Lunar Conspiracy Theories
• Speech Recognition Technology Used to Analyze Apollo Mission Tapes
• The Lame Reason NASA Gave Up on Sending Astronauts to Venus in 1973
• NASA Creates Amazing ‘Chain Mail’ Wheel for Future Mars Rover…

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Beachcombing

• ‘A Gift from the Sky’: Record-Breaking Nine-Hour Rainbow Appears in Taiwan
• The Men Collecting Stardust from Gutters and Rooftops
• The UK’s Impending Microbead Ban Has a Gray Area: Glitter
• To Save the Oceans, Should You Give up Glitter?
• All That Glitter? It’s Not Good, Critics Say
• Irish Beach That Vanished…

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Not Forgotten

• Native Words, Native Warriors: Navajo Code Talkers
• Hedy Lamarr’s Forgotten, Frustrated Career as a Wartime Inventor
• The Forgotten Doughnut Heroines of Wartime
• The Forgotten Story of the ‘Idle Women’ – Who Fought the Second World War on Britain’s Canals
• The Secret World War II…

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Red All Over

• How an Italian Immigrant Rolled Out the Radio Flyer Wagon Across America
• There Never Was Such a Thing as a Red Phone in the White House
• Facebook Bans Artist’s ‘Sexual’ Robin Redbreast Christmas Cards
• Artist’s ‘Sexual’ Robin Redbreast Christmas Cards Banned by Faceboo…

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The Look of Life

• Is Anybody Out There? What Darwin Can Teach Us about What Aliens Look Like
• Oxford Biologists Just Outlined What Alien Life Looks Like
• Aliens Might Look and Think Like Us, Courtesy of Natural Selection
• Green Bank Observatory Embraces Its Alien-Hunting Future
• Help Name the Most Distant O…

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The Sound of Fear

• NASA Rocket Scientists Carve the Most Incredible Pumpkins
• Get in the Halloween Spirit with a NASA-Curated Playlist of Spooky Space Sounds
• NASA Playlist of the Incredible ‘Sounds of Space’
• A “Spooky Sounds” Playlist Direct from Outer Space, Compiled by NASA for Halloween
• What Song Terrifies You?
• Fear Can Make You a Bette…

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Living Space

• Scientists Want Astronauts to Live in a Lava Tube on the Moon
• Scientists Just Found the Perfect Spot to Build an Underground Colony on the Moon
• Japan Just Discovered the Perfect Spot to Build a Moonbase
• Discovery of 50km Cave Raises Hopes for Human Colonisation of Moon
• The Moon Once Had an Atm…

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Smoke’s Gonna Come Out

• What Would the Next Golden Record Carry?
• Neil DeGrasse Tyson Blames ‘Both Sides’ for the Rise of Anti-Intellectualism in Politics
• Neil DeGrasse Tyson: What If We Just Turned the Hurricanes into Electricity
• Would Dumping Trash into Volcanoes Solve Our Global Waste Problem?
• Why Don’t We Throw Trash…

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Isolation Stations

• What’s on US Astronaut’s Wish List after 9 Months in Space?
• Now Hiring: A Hairdresser for an Antarctic Research Station
• Designing a Better Antarctic Base for Science
• After 8 Months of Isolation, Mars Research Team Emerges
• Hopeful Martians Emerge from 8-Month Experiment to Find Earth Horrific as Ever
• ‘Not One Insult’: Briton …

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