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These Young Sisters Sent a Weather Balloon to Space

(via Great Big Story) When it comes to after school activities, Rebecca and Kimberly Yeung may be some of the

(via Atlas Obscura) During the height of 1960s space and flight exploration in the United States, Alice King Chatham worked behind

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(via Popular Mechanics) We can’t dig to the center of the Earth, but that hasn’t stopped us from trying. Whether

(via mental_floss) The deepest part of our oceans, the region from below 20,000 feet to the very bottom of the

(via Ars Technica) 50 years ago this week, on January 27, 1967, tragedy struck the Apollo Lunar program program when

(via Atlas Obscura) The “Bomb Alarm System,” designed and implemented by Western Union, wasn’t a secret, but it was unobtrusive

(via The Atlantic) In the late 19th century, filmmakers had a problem they couldn’t have anticipated: how to make a

(via Amusing Planet) Smoke signals and beacons have been used to relay messages over short distances since ancient times, but

(via The Week) The Great Blizzard of 1888, or The Great White Hurricane, battered Americans from Washington, D.C., to Maine

(via Great Big Story) In caves that are 30 million years old and 150 feet underground, an unforgettable site glows

(via Lifehacker) Some life-altering tricks require a complete how-to guide just to understand. Others are so genius in their simplicity

(via Amusing Planet) For the second year in a row, low tides in Venice have sunk to such record levels