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Maybe try counseling first before you try this, married folks.
Colonel Chris Hadfield talks to us about the formalities that astronauts have to use, and how it can help us here on earth.
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The universe is a huge place, inconceivably vast. And it can make even the most brilliant minds feel very, very small.
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Trash on earth is pretty bad. But space trash is at a whole other level.
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When you have the opportunity to take gravity away from the human body, the results are pretty fasninating.
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Binary stars and common envelope evolution illustrate messy but “tasty" science.
Multi-messenger astronomy further widens our window to the universe.
Want to be a great scientist? Think like a child.
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Heather Heying knows that a true understanding of the world comes not from the answers, but the questions as well.
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Fundamental physics must reconsider its current path and value system.
"One small step for man" costs a lot of money. Who's going to help pay the bill for the next bout of space exploration?
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Michelle Thaller from NASA examines if it's possible to put up a giant disk to block out the sun's rays and cool Earth.
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Current physician and former NASA astronaut Scott Parazynski knows a thing or two about out-of-this-world success.
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Sabine Hossenfeder has some problems with how it's practiced today.
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To spur action on climate change, we need a story of mythical proportions.
Thanks to genetic engineering, a child can now have three parents. But is it a good idea?
Digging deeper into last week's revelations about the Red Planet.
After you die, some things in your body keep on ticking, this video reveals.
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In a major announcement today, NASA reveals that its rover found organic compounds and methane.
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Most of us show humility in the face of Nature as we flirt with the unknown.
Astronauts aren’t floating in space, they’re free falling—and so are you. Here's the amazing science behind so-called zero gravity.
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Adam Frank and Marcelo Gleiser, founders of the popular blog, have landed at ORBITER.
The quest for the cause of the cosmos is an ancient quest. Neil Turok offers a fascinating new theory.
Stephen Hawking was one of the greatest scientific and analytical minds of our time, says NASA's Michelle Thaller.
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Think getting along with people that are nothing like you is hard? Here’s how astronauts do it, 254 miles above Earth on the ISS.
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Podcast host Robert Wright's lively conversation with the Harvard psychologist.
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