How a Cheap Drone Punctured Chernobyl’s 40,000 Ton Shield
The steel shell that encloses the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster was built to endure for a century. But war was a ...
Rock and a hard place
The mine contains about six million tonnes of graphite, a critical mineral, but most of its equipment dates back to the ...
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Does Trump want Ukraine’s nuclear power plants, what has Kyiv said?
During a phone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday, Trump said the best way for Kyiv to ...
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Rare ultra-fast Soviet Rekord-4 lens goes to auction this summer
The Rekord-4 has a focal length of 52mm and was designed for a 24×36 mm film format, offering a 45-degree field of view. Its optical construction consisted of nine elements in six groups, with a ...
Mint Primer | Sunita Williams’ return: Is space travel so tricky?
In one of the most politicized and closely-followed space missions, Sunita Williams, an astronaut of Indian descent, spent ...
Women In Space: The Ones Who Paved the Way
With NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and her crewmate Butch Wilmore returning to Earth on Tuesday after nine months in space, ...
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Against all odds: 5 greatest space survival stories
Space is one of the most dangerous frontiers, yet astronauts have repeatedly defied death through skill, technology, and ...
Russian cosmonauts became the only people to die in space after spending 23 days orbiting Earth
Soviet Russia's Soyuz 11 cosmonauts Georgi Dobrovolski, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev died on their return to Earth ...
The Rare Sight That Garnered Crowds At Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport
The An-124 is the little brother of the An-225 (a decade ago, on July 2, 2014, the An-225 was also in Minnesota). The ...