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Oct 31, 2018

How fungus and sweat could transform Martian exploration

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As a product designer imagines a Martian boot made out of human sweat and fungus, her quest sparks a new question: can biomaterials open the door for a human colony on Mars?

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Oct 31, 2018

Project Discovery: a simple guide

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Find out how online gamers are helping scientists discover new exoplanets by playing EVE Online and taking part in Project Discovery.

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Oct 31, 2018

Hawaii top court approves controversial Thirty Meter Telescope

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Construction had halted in 2015 amid protests from native Hawaiians who consider the land sacred.

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Oct 31, 2018

Truly Terrifying: The Solar System’s Spookiest Place

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Our biggest planet is a cosmic creepshow.

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Oct 30, 2018

Mysterious 900 MILE long ‘plume’ cloud spotted on the surface of Mars near a giant volcano

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What the hell is this?!

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Oct 30, 2018

After nine years in space 🌌

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Kepler and K2 Missions is dead. Happy Halloween!

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Oct 29, 2018

The Most FASCINATING Things Ever Found in SPACE

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Part 2.

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Oct 29, 2018

The best astronomy pictures of the year are gorgeous reminders that we live on a rock that drifts through space

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Look at the beauty of the universe!


Looking up at space reminds us that everyone and everything on Earth is stuck together on a big space rock that’s drifting through an infinite black void.

Unfortunately, terrestrial concerns like work, dinner, and getting enough sleep tend to keep us facing down.

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Oct 29, 2018

We’re on the cusp of the #Apollo50… — NASA — National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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We’re on the cusp of the #Apollo50 anniversary of America’s great achievement that landed a dozen astronauts on the Moon between July 1969 and December 1972 and our first crewed mission – Apollo 8 – that circumnavigated the Moon in December 1968. Take a look: https://go.nasa.gov/2CN3KQH

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Oct 29, 2018

Technology and Culture: Our Accelerating Epigenetic Factor Driven Evolution

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Memes are not just learned, they run deeper than that, they are part of our shared experience as human beings. This is how we communicate to each other through spoken, written, and body language; this is how we participate in customs, rituals and cultural traditions. Indeed, human civilization has always been a “cultured” virtual reality. We don’t often think of cultures as virtual realities, but there is no more apt descriptor for our widely diverse sociology and interpretations than the metaphor of the “virtual reality.” In truth, the virtual reality metaphor encompasses the entire human enterprise. We should realize that all our ideologies and religions, our belief systems and models of reality are our own personal operating systems — real to us but wry to someone else — each of us lives in a seemingly shared but simultaneously private virtual world.


By Alex Vikoulov.

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