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Asteroid 16 Psyche, a metal-rich world roughly 225 kilometres wide orbiting between Mars and Jupiter, may contain extraordinary amounts of iron and nickel — enough that back-of-the-envelope estimates have put its theoretical metal value at around $10,000
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More than 8,000 people applied to become NASA astronauts in 2024, and just 10 were chosen — not simply the strongest or the fastest, but people who could master robotics, medicine, foreign languages, survival training, high-performance jets and the one sk
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Japan has more than 33,000 businesses over 100 years old and roughly 3,000 over 200 years old — the highest concentration of ancient family businesses on earth — including a hotel called Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan that has been run by the same family since
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Tattoo ink doesn’t just stay in the skin — a PNAS mouse study found pigments can reach nearby lymph nodes soon after contact, damage macrophages, and keep inflammation active for at least two months
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In 2021, Japan appointed a Minister for Loneliness — a Cabinet-level position officially responsible for developing national policy on social isolation — after years of speculation that isolation had become one of the country’s most serious public-health
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Norway, a country of 5.5 million people that discovered oil off its coast in 1969, has built the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund — worth more than $2 trillion in 2026 and holding stakes in roughly 1.5 percent of all publicly listed shares on the pla
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The United Arab Emirates was once a small federation of fishermen, pearl divers, and camel herders on the Arabian Peninsula with no formal government and no paved roads — and 60 years later, it hosts the tallest building on earth, one of the world’s large
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Olive oil, soybeans, yogurt, lentils, and kimchi were named the five healthiest foods in the world by Health Magazine in 2006 — a distinction that put a spicy Korean fermented cabbage on the same shelf as the pillars of Mediterranean cuisine
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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, due to launch in August 2026, is expected to discover around 100,000 exoplanets in a single mission — more than every telescope in the history of astronomy combined
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The reason your mind wanders has nothing to do with discipline or willpower, and a study of 68 experiments found that the longer any task goes on, people increasingly think about something else regardless of how hard they try
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In 1961, when Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit the Earth, he reported that on the descent he saw flames outside the porthole and briefly believed his capsule was burning up
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In April 2026, four Artemis II astronauts flew 406,771 kilometres from Earth — farther than any humans in history — breaking the Apollo 13 record from 1970 not by landing on the Moon, but by looping around its far side on a free-return path while the Moon
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