Though spacecraft with artificial gravity are still a distant dream, we had proof of concept way back in September 1966.

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The first planned artificial gravity experiment took place in late 1966, but the first human on the Moon beat them to it.

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A bright fireball exploded over the Texan skies just a few days ago, and it seems to have dropped a meteorite right through ...

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Many new species have been found in the region's mostly unexplored karst landscape, including a beautiful new pit viper ...

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Despite surviving for hundreds of thousands of years and conquering much of Eurasia, Neanderthals were actually pretty few ...