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In November 1988, an unmanned Soviet space shuttle called Buran flew a full orbital mission and landed itself in a blizzard at Baikonur without a single human input, and three ...

On the morning of November 15, 1988, a Soviet spacecraft named Buran lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, circled the Earth twice, and ...
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Voyager 1 launched in 1977 with onboard computers holding less memory than a single photo on a modern phone — and that 1970s machine is still running, sendin…

Voyager 1 launched on 5 September 1977. Nearly forty-nine years later it is still operating, about 25 billion kilometres from ...
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Cognitive scientists have a name for the moment you finish a page and realize you took in none of it, and a Harvard study that caught people’s thoughts at random found the ...

What happens when you read a page and take in none of it Most people know the experience. You reach the bottom of a page, and you realise you have absorbed nothing. Your eyes moved across every line.
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People who flip their phone face down on every table aren’t being secretive. They figured out that staying interruptible meant handing their time to whoever rang first

There is a small gesture some people make without thinking about it. They sit down, put their phone on the table, and turn it face down. Not in a pointed ...
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