Titan’s atmosphere is thicker than Earth’s, its rivers and lakes are made of methane and ethane, and NASA is sending a nuclear-powered drone there because on Saturn’s largest moon, flying may be easier than driving. - Space Daily
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Enceladus is a tiny moon of Saturn that sprays water vapor and ice grains into space from an ocean hidden beneath its icy crust — meaning a spacecraft can sample material from an alien sea without ever landing. - Space Daily
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Stephen Hawking’s dad reveals super genius was lazy kid who ‘didn’t study,’ lounged around too much: biography - New York Post
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I spent years assuming my personality was fixed — then I learned what neuroplasticity actually means and realised I had been maintaining myself like a finished product instead of a living system - Space Daily
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A Radical Innovation Helped Archaic Humans Survive a Harsh Ice Age - ScienceAlert
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Extreme 8.5-minute orbit reveals white dwarf being torn apart by its binary companion - Phys.org
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The human genome contains traces of ancient viruses that infected our ancestors millions of years ago — and some of those viral leftovers were later repurposed into genes that help make human pregnancy possible - Space Daily
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A glacier bigger than Washington state is melting faster than ever. The implications are dire - OregonLive.com
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Research Paper Warns That There’s a Massive Experiment at Work to Geoengineer the Earth’s Climate - Yahoo
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Emergence of new cavefish species challenges evolutionary dead-end idea - Phys.org
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The Milky Way ate another galaxy. Scientists say they’ve found the scraps - CNN
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The Emptiest Places in the Universe Might Contain Its Best Secrets - WIRED
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A ‘Golden Orb’ on the Ocean Floor Came From a Mysterious Animal - WIRED
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A fossil site in North Dakota appears to have captured the day the dinosaur-killing asteroid struck Earth, right down to tiny glass beads from the impact lodged in the gills of fish that died within hours - Space Daily
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A slice of the static on an old untuned television was the afterglow of the Big Bang, which means millions of people spent decades staring at the oldest light in the universe without knowing it. - Space Daily
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Sea level rise is speeding up and scientists now know exactly why - ScienceDaily
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Researchers simulated 30 million routes to the Moon and found a hidden detour through L1 that saves fuel and keeps spacecraft talking to Earth the whole way - Space Daily
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The Apollo astronauts left mirrors on the Moon that scientists still bounce lasers off 57 years later, and the round-trip measurement is precise enough to track the Moon drifting away from Earth at the speed your fingernails grow - Space Daily
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NASA deliberately crashed Galileo into Jupiter in 2003 to protect Europa, after the spacecraft found signs of the ocean it could one day contaminate - Space Daily
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The Cassini spacecraft was deliberately flown into Saturn in 2017 because NASA refused to risk contaminating Enceladus, and in its final 90 seconds its thrusters fought the atmosphere so it could keep sending data home - Space Daily
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