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The Cold War's Impact on SETI
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Contact between Soviet and American SETI scientists during the Cold War was multi-layered. At face value it was a sharing of ideas. At a deeper level it showed that people of the East and West could work together as human beings. And deeper still, the difficulties that they faced in reaching out from their separate nations, quite alien to one another, and be understood was like role play for the day we really do make contact with an alien intelligence.
The Maya Structures that Brought Cosmic Order to Earth
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Ancient structures built by the Maya appear to have played a complex role in their political and social lives, and were especially important to ritual practice. Debates have raged for a century among archaeologists about the significance of these captivating constructions, some showing cosmic inspiration and alignment.
Does Violence at a Remote Antarctica Station Spell Doom for Mars Missions?
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Near the northern coast of Antarctica’s Norway-controlled Queen Maud Land, a heavily secluded polar research station sits perched near the edge of the plunging Vesleskarvet cliff, a crisis among the scientist unfolded like the preamble to another season of True Detective.
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The Cold War's Impact on SETI
Contact between Soviet and American SETI scientists during the Cold War was multi-layered. At face value it was a sharing of ideas. At a deeper level it showed that people of the East and West could work together as human beings. And deeper still, the difficulties that they faced in reaching out from their separate nations, quite alien to one another, and be understood was like role play for the day we really do make contact with an alien intelligence.
April 29, 2025
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The Maya Structures that Brought Cosmic Order to Earth
Ancient structures built by the Maya appear to have played a complex role in their political and social lives, and were especially important to ritual practice. Debates have raged for a century among archaeologists about the significance of these captivating constructions, some showing cosmic inspiration and alignment.
April 22, 2025
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Does Violence at a Remote Antarctica Station Spell Doom for Mars Missions?
Near the northern coast of Antarctica’s Norway-controlled Queen Maud Land, a heavily secluded polar research station sits perched near the edge of the plunging Vesleskarvet cliff, a crisis among the scientist unfolded like the preamble to another season of True Detective.
April 15, 2025
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Rocket Lab to Search for Signs of Life in the Hellish Clouds of Venus
It rains sulfuric acid on Venus, but the surface is so hot — hot enough to liquify lead, in fact — that this rain evaporates before it ever hits the ground. But the cloud layer is oddly temperate, and this is where Rocket Lab will hope to find life.
April 8, 2025
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Working Overtime in Orbit: Striking Photos from Butch and Suni's Ordeal
Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are back home after suffering through quite the news cycle. From the doomed Starliner mission that brought them to the space station, to the Dragon that had to bring them home after NASA extended their stay by over 9 months, we relive their long journey through historic images captured on Earth and in orbit.
April 2, 2025
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Finding Fuel for the Future in a Burbank Castle
The carbon emissions of today would be the fuel source of tomorrow. Burning any form of natural gas would still produce harmful emissions, but Terraform Industries could recapture those pollutants and recycle them into future fuel. Producing this carbon neutral natural gas from the atmosphere feels novel, though the technology behind their first product, the Terraformer, is not.