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The SpaceX Starship Explosion Blew a Hole in the Ground and Burned Part of a Texas State Park
The failure to launch Starship caused great harm in Boca Chica. It’s due to Elon Musk’s insistence on omitting flame-suppression technology at the launch site.
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Cryptozoologists Enlist Drones to Find the Loch Ness Monster
There are plenty of urban legends that live rent-free in our minds, but few as notorious as the Loch Ness Monster. A group of cryptozoologists will be taking to the namesake body of water to hunt for the mythological creature with a suite of technology in the biggest manhunt—or “monster-hunt”—in over five decades. As Popular…
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Malaysian Cave Art Appears to Depict Colonial-Era Conflicts
Researchers recently dated charcoal drawings in Borneo’s Gua Sireh Cave to around the 18th century CE, giving a colonial context to the artwork. Gua Sireh is in Malaysian Borneo. The cave’s limestone walls are covered in hundreds of charcoal drawings depicting people (many in headdresses), knives, animals, and abstract designs. But interpretations of the scenes…
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How Many People Does It Take to Start a Colony on Mars?
It might only take 22 people to establish a colony on Mars, though that small group of cosmic inhabitants should have agreeable personality types to survive on the Red Planet, according to new research. Mars has been home to robotic explorers for nearly 60 years, but when it comes to landing humans on the Red…