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A new picture of the Apollo 11 crew found at the bottom of a box

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Command module pilot Michael Collins has found a new picture of the crew at the bottom of a box. It shows Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. The timing is perfect since July 2019 is the ...

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Fantastic Women Series – Mary Anning, the original fossil hunter

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Mary Anning was the original fossil hunter, fossil dealer and most importantly palaeontologist, who became famous for her important finds from Lyme Regis.

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Fantastic Women Series – Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin

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Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin was an astronomer, who literally discovered what the universe is made of. She was one of the Harvard Computers.

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Denisovans and extinct sub-Saharan ghost populations

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Anthropology Blog - It seems there were three Denisovan lineages and that we may have interbred with an extinct ghost African basal population.

Highest air pollution in Bangladesh, China, India, and Pakistan in 2018

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AirVisual and Greenpeace have jointly published the World Air Quality Report for 2018, ranking over 3000 cities based on their pollution levels.

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Happy Carl Sagan Day — The Voyagers and the Pale Blue Dot

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Carl Sagan contributed immensely to how we perceive science, and to Voyagers 1&2, which are now in deep space & took the picture of the Pale Blue Dot.

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Space news: Landing on an asteroid, visiting Mercury and collecting solar data

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Space News: Hyabusa was sent to Ryugu, Bepi Colombo went to Mercury and the Parker Solar Probe is orbiting the sun and sending back important data.

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