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When cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov stepped out of his Soyuz capsule in March 1995 after 437 consecutive days aboard Mir, doctors recorded him at several centimetres above his pre-flight height, and his spine had become so unaccustomed to gravity that the recovery team carried him to a chair rather than risk the compression of letting him walk.

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When cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov climbed out of his Soyuz capsule on the Kazakh steppe in March 1995, after more than…

When Bell Labs engineer Karl Jansky pointed a rotating antenna at the sky in 1932 looking for sources of transatlantic radio static, he kept picking up a faint hiss that peaked every 23 hours and 56 minutes, and he eventually realized he had become the first human to hear the center of the Milky Way.

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In the summer of 1932, a radio engineer named Karl Jansky was standing in a field in New Jersey, next…

When seismic waves from the Chicxulub impact reached what is now North Dakota roughly ten minutes after the asteroid struck, they appear to have triggered a ten-metre standing wave in an inland river that flung fish onto the bank and buried them under glass beads still falling from the sky.

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Robert DePalma was digging at a ranch in the Hell Creek Formation of southwestern North Dakota, in a place he…

When Edme Mariotte stared at marks on a wall in the 1660s, one mark vanished inside a six-degree hole where the optic nerve leaves the eye and the brain has been filling in wallpaper, sky, and faces ever since

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Edme Mariotte made a spot disappear on a wall in the 1660s, not by tricking the wall, but by finding…

On 28 May 2009, Google demoed a product called Wave on stage at I/O for 80 minutes and got a standing ovation from developers who had no idea what they had just watched, and 15 months later the company quietly shut it down because almost nobody could explain to a friend what it was actually for

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Lars Rasmussen stood on stage at the Moscone Center in San Francisco on 28 May 2009 and spent roughly 80…

In October 2002, a Russian scientist named Dimitri Malashenkov stood up at a space conference in Houston and quietly explained that the dog Laika, whom the Soviet Union had publicly mourned as a heroic week-long orbiter in 1957, had actually died of heat and panic within about five hours of launch.

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In October 2002, a Russian scientist named Dimitri Malashenkov stood up at a space conference in Houston and quietly explained…

When survivors near Lake Nyos woke on the morning of 22 August 1986, the cattle were dead in the fields, the birds had fallen out of the trees, and 1,746 of their neighbours were lying where they had stood the night before, with no fire, no flood, and no wound to explain it.

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Just before 10 p.m. on 21 August 1986, a low rumble rolled across the hills above Lake Nyos in northwestern…

When Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko landed a top-secret MiG-25 at a Japanese airport in September 1976, American engineers tearing it down expected to find titanium and microchips, and instead they found vacuum tubes, rivets popped by hand, and a stainless steel airframe so heavy it could only fly fast in a straight line.

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On the morning of September 6, 1976, a Soviet Air Defense Forces lieutenant named Viktor Belenko shoved the throttles forward…

When Clair Patterson set out in 1948 to measure the age of the Earth using lead in meteorites, his samples kept coming back contaminated, and the seven-year detour he took to find the source ended with him almost single-handedly forcing leaded gasoline out of American cars by 1986.

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In 1948, Clair Patterson was a graduate student at the University of Chicago with a deceptively simple assignment from his…

The IBM 305 RAMAC stayed in production until 1961, weighed more than a ton, stored five million characters on fifty spinning platters, and still drew customers because the alternative was a room full of punched cards

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In 1956, IBM showed businesses a refrigerator-sized storage cabinet that could reach a record in less than a second instead…

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When seismic waves from the Chicxulub impact reached what is now North Dakota roughly ten minutes after the asteroid struck, they appear to have triggered a ten-metre standing wave in an inland river that flung fish onto the bank and buried them under glass beads still falling from the sky.

When Edme Mariotte stared at marks on a wall in the 1660s, one mark vanished inside a six-degree hole where the optic nerve leaves the eye and the brain has been filling in wallpaper, sky, and faces ever since

On 28 May 2009, Google demoed a product called Wave on stage at I/O for 80 minutes and got a standing ovation from developers who had no idea what they had just watched, and 15 months later the company quietly shut it down because almost nobody could explain to a friend what it was actually for

In October 2002, a Russian scientist named Dimitri Malashenkov stood up at a space conference in Houston and quietly explained that the dog Laika, whom the Soviet Union had publicly mourned as a heroic week-long orbiter in 1957, had actually died of heat and panic within about five hours of launch.

When survivors near Lake Nyos woke on the morning of 22 August 1986, the cattle were dead in the fields, the birds had fallen out of the trees, and 1,746 of their neighbours were lying where they had stood the night before, with no fire, no flood, and no wound to explain it.

When Clair Patterson set out in 1948 to measure the age of the Earth using lead in meteorites, his samples kept coming back contaminated, and the seven-year detour he took to find the source ended with him almost single-handedly forcing leaded gasoline out of American cars by 1986.

The IBM 305 RAMAC stayed in production until 1961, weighed more than a ton, stored five million characters on fifty spinning platters, and still drew customers because the alternative was a room full of punched cards

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