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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…

In 1977, Ann Druyan recorded an hour of her brainwaves and heartbeat two days after she and Carl Sagan agreed to marry, and NASA pressed the compressed minute onto Voyager’s Golden Record as a private love signal now more than 25 billion kilometres from Earth

Saving Tips June 4, 2026

On June 3, 1977, Ann Druyan sat for an hour-long recording session in New York while instruments captured the electrical…

In 1942, Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr and avant-garde composer George Antheil received US Patent 2,292,387 for a frequency-hopping radio system synchronised by a perforated paper roll borrowed from a player piano, a technique the Navy filed away as unworkable and which now underpins every Wi-Fi router, Bluetooth earbud, and GPS receiver on Earth.

Saving Tips June 1, 2026

On August 11, 1942, the US Patent Office issued Patent No. 2,292,387 to Hedy Kiesler Markey, the legal name of…

The Voyager 1 spacecraft launched in 1977 is now over 15 billion miles from Earth, and a radio signal from NASA takes more than 22 hours to reach it, meaning every command is really an instruction for where the probe will be by tomorrow

Saving Tips May 31, 2026

Voyager 1 is currently drifting through interstellar space at roughly 38,000 miles per hour, more than 15 billion miles from…

In 1859 a storm on the Sun struck the Earth so hard that telegraph wires threw sparks and operators were shocked at their desks, and scientists warn the same event today would knock out power grids across entire continents.

Saving Tips May 31, 2026

The historical claim in the lede is well documented. On 1 and 2 September 1859, a coronal mass ejection from…

NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code in a 1970s-era programming language that almost nobody on Earth fully understands anymore, and the handful of engineers who do are now in their 80s.

Saving Tips May 30, 2026

The popular version of the story sounds almost too perfect: NASA is still flying the Voyager spacecraft with code written…

Scott Kelly spent a year in orbit while his identical twin brother stayed on Earth, and when he came home NASA discovered his gene expression had changed in ways that didn’t fully reverse

Saving Tips May 28, 2026

In March 2015, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly launched to the International Space Station for a 340-day stay, the longest single…

When a massive solar storm hit Earth in 1972, it triggered a series of magnetic fluctuations so severe that it accidentally detonated dozens of U.S. Navy sea mines off the coast of North Vietnam, a military mystery that was only classified and explained decades later

Saving Tips May 27, 2026

On August 4, 1972, U.S. military pilots flying south of Haiphong harbour in North Vietnam saw something they could not…

In 2020, Philipp Heck’s team dated forty presolar grains from Australia’s Murchison meteorite and found stardust as old as seven billion years, older than the Sun, Earth, and every solid material ever measured on this planet

Saving Tips May 27, 2026

On September 28, 1969, a fireball broke apart over Murchison, Victoria, and dropped black stones across roughly 35 square kilometres…

From 6 billion kilometres out, Voyager 1 looked back in 1990 and found Earth reduced to a pale blue speck smaller than one pixel, a shot Carl Sagan had spent years fighting for

Saving Tips May 26, 2026

From 6 billion kilometres out, Voyager 1 looked back in 1990 and found Earth reduced to a pale blue speck…

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Browsing: Earth

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.

In 1977, Ann Druyan recorded an hour of her brainwaves and heartbeat two days after she and Carl Sagan agreed to marry, and NASA pressed the compressed minute onto Voyager’s Golden Record as a private love signal now more than 25 billion kilometres from Earth

The Voyager 1 spacecraft launched in 1977 is now over 15 billion miles from Earth, and a radio signal from NASA takes more than 22 hours to reach it, meaning every command is really an instruction for where the probe will be by tomorrow

In 1859 a storm on the Sun struck the Earth so hard that telegraph wires threw sparks and operators were shocked at their desks, and scientists warn the same event today would knock out power grids across entire continents.

NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code in a 1970s-era programming language that almost nobody on Earth fully understands anymore, and the handful of engineers who do are now in their 80s.

Scott Kelly spent a year in orbit while his identical twin brother stayed on Earth, and when he came home NASA discovered his gene expression had changed in ways that didn’t fully reverse

When a massive solar storm hit Earth in 1972, it triggered a series of magnetic fluctuations so severe that it accidentally detonated dozens of U.S. Navy sea mines off the coast of North Vietnam, a military mystery that was only classified and explained decades later

In 2020, Philipp Heck’s team dated forty presolar grains from Australia’s Murchison meteorite and found stardust as old as seven billion years, older than the Sun, Earth, and every solid material ever measured on this planet

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