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Inside the Jet Propulsion Laboratory: NASA’s Crazy, Kooky, Legendary Research Facility

(via Popular Mechanics) Everyone’s talking about private industry getting humans on Mars. Mars trips! Mars houses! Mars colonies! But no

(via The Vintage News) An American satellite abandoned in 1967, now assumed to simply be space junk, has started transmitting

(via Popular Mechanics) Everyone knows the sound of Jurassic Park‘s T-Rex roar, that horrifically effective combination of a baby elephant,

(via AV Club) It’s no coincidence that the two most popular non-water drinks in the world, tea and coffee, contain

(via BBC Future) Relatively few people are lefties, and it’s a puzzle why. Still, the science of handedness is revealing

(via Gizmodo) The oldest human to have ever lived died at the age of 122—and that was nearly 20 years

(via Wendover Productions) We’ve been to the moon. We’ve played golf on it. We might go back for a visit

(via First We Feast) John Peck, a 31-year-old Marine veteran from Fredericksburg, Virginia, became a quadruple amputee some six years

(via Popular Mechanics) Aluminum has been around for thousands of years, but until fairly recently, it was very expensive and

(via Popular Mechanics) The year was 1967, the middle of the Cold War. America and Russia were locked in a

(via mental_floss) When a run-of-the-mill watermelon and a souped-up frankenmelon love each other very much, they come together and make

(via Popular Mechanics) A new gel could revolutionize pain treatment by going where it needs to go when it needs