This Edible Water Blob Could Change Hydration Forever
(via mental_floss) It can be tough to get your recommended daily intake of water, but one innovation is making it
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First of Its Class, America’s Newest Aircraft Carrier Is Underway at Sea
(via Popular Mechanics) The aircraft carrier Gerald Ford, the U.S. Navy’s latest supercarrier, is finally at sea undergoing testing. The
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The Japanese Hotel Staffed By Robots
(via Amusing Planet) In the last few weeks, we have been hearing a lot about how robots have been replacing
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NASA’s most “successful failure”
(via Buzzle) On April 13, 1970, disaster strikes 200,000 miles from Earth when oxygen tank No. 2 blows up on
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Now There’s an Armageddon-Proof Library to Go With Norway’s Doomsday Seed Bank
(via Popular Mechanics)Way up north in Norway, the Svalbard Global Seed Bank is a repository for the world’s most important
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Yuri Gargarin first in space 56 years ago today
(via Live Science) On April 12, 1961, aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first
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This Device Collects Water From the Clouds
(via Smithsonian) On a dry, rocky slope of Mount Boutmezguida in southwest Morocco, a series of mesh billboards stand perched
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V-Mail: the WWII program that scanned GI letters home onto microfilm
(via Retronaut) Shortly after entering World War II, the US military found that delivering immense volumes of mail to and
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Transforming a Football Stadium Into a Final Four Court
(via Popular Mechanics) University of Phoenix Stadium is no newbie when it comes to hosting a Big Game. It set
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Why Planes Don’t Fly Any Faster Than They Did in the 1960s
(via mental_floss) The airplane experience has changed a lot since the 1960s, when tickets could cost up to five times
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The Controversial Zeppelin Stamps That Enraged 1930s Collectors
(via Atlas Obscura) On May 21, 1930, the world’s biggest airship, the Graf Zeppelin, floated over the Cape Verde Islands
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The First Spacewalker Cheated Death And Crash-Landed In a Forest Full of Wolves
(via Motherboard) March 18, 1965 was an ordinary Thursday for the majority of people located on planet Earth. But for 30-year-old
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