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The First Spacewalker Cheated Death And Crash-Landed In a Forest Full of Wolves

March 18, 1965 was an ordinary Thursday for the majority of people located on planet Earth. But for 30-year-old cosmonaut Alexey Leonov, one of two people who happened to b...

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What Do We Want the Future to Be?

Sometime in late June of 2011, I sat down at a Thai restaurant in Williamsburg with then-deputy editor Sean Yeaton. I'd been badgering him for months over email to give me ...

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How An Arctic Island In Canada Is Preparing Humans For The First Journey To Mars

Every summer for the last twenty years, dozens of would-be Martians have gathered on Devon Island in northern Canada to test some of the cutting-edge technology we'll need ...

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What Happens When We Find Unknown Life?

We often get derailed in conversations about alien life by focusing on little green men and the like, but the reality of trying to find life is much more profound: As astro...

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Bodies Are The Key To Human Intelligence—What About Machines?

Most AI researchers are currently missing a central piece of the puzzle: embodiment. It's tempting to think of the mind as a layer that sits on top of more primitive cognit...

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NASA's Adorable Pop-Up Rovers Are Designed to Explore Harsh Alien Terrains

These origami-inspired vehicles are currently in development at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and are designed to tackle the kinds of tricky, high-risk terrain that hav...

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The Four Coolest Concepts NASA Just Bankrolled to Solve Spaceflight Challenges

Like some glorious love child of Shark Tank and Cosmos, NASA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program aims to fund visionary space exploration proposals sourced ...

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How An Atari Chip Set Off A War Among Neuroscientists

A video game chip started a scientific reckoning. It all began when some “microchip archaeologists” photographed the chip—the MOS 6502 microprocessor that...

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Two Research Teams Have Independently Made a Real-Life Time Crystal

Two research teams from Harvard and the University of Maryland have published research papers today in Nature which detail how they have independently managed to create rea...

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Here's What Convinced A Heart Surgeon To Use 3D Printing

When I walked into Dr. Sloane Guy's office Tuesday morning, he and a cardiac surgery nurse practitioner were surveying a detailed 3D image on his computer screen. It was a ...

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