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The footprints left by Apollo astronauts on the lunar surface will remain there, undisturbed, for at least ten million years — there is no wind, no rain, and almost nothing to erase them
The bootprints that Apollo astronauts pressed into the lunar dust between 1969 and 1972 are still there, and they will stay for a very long time.
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Physicist Roger Penrose has spent decades arguing that consciousness isn't something the brain produces, but that explaining it will require physics we haven't yet discovered
Roger Penrose does not think a computer will ever be conscious, and he does not think a brain running on ordinary neural computation would be conscious either.
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The psychology of ambition, isolation, and meaning under extremes — and what frontier life teaches us about being human.
Saturn used to be listed with 83 moons. Then astronomers looked harder, found dozens more, and by 2026 the count had exploded to 285 — so many that Saturn now has nearly three times as many confirmed moons as Jupiter.
If you could travel to another star system at almost the speed of light, you might age only a few years on the journey — while the people you left behind could age by generations, or even be gone for centuries.
If microbial life is ever confirmed on Mars, on Europa, or in the plumes of Enceladus, it will be the most consequential discovery in the history of science — not because aliens exist, but because it would mean life is ordinary, and the universe is full of it
NASA tested a nuclear rocket engine dozens of times in the 1960s, proved it could work, then shelved it before it ever flew — and now the same basic idea is being revived because it could make the trip to Mars far shorter than chemical rockets allow.
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Saturn used to be listed with 83 moons. Then astronomers looked harder, found dozens more, and by 2026 the count had exploded to 285 — so many that Saturn now has nearly three times as many confirmed moons as Jupiter.
If microbial life is ever confirmed on Mars, on Europa, or in the plumes of Enceladus, it will be the most consequential discovery in the history of science — not because aliens exist, but because it would mean life is ordinary, and the universe is full of it
NASA tested a nuclear rocket engine dozens of times in the 1960s, proved it could work, then shelved it before it ever flew — and now the same basic idea is being revived because it could make the trip to Mars far shorter than chemical rockets allow.
The footprints left by Apollo astronauts on the lunar surface will remain there, undisturbed, for at least ten million years — there is no wind, no rain, and almost nothing to erase them
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