Popular Science USA – July-August 2019

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MEASURED EDGE TO EDGE, the universe as we know it stretches some 93 billion light- years across. That unfathomable expanse conta ...

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DEEP BY JOSH DEAN FALL 2019 POPULAR SCIENCE PAGE 48 Inside the ambitious quest to reach the bottom of each ocean and change the ...

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Vescovo had been considering what, after Everest and Antarctica, he could possibly tackle that would feel big enough. Outer spac ...

fixable, and Triton’s onboard team—the same engineers and techni- cians who built the sub—had toiled furiously for 36 hours to g ...

CO UR TE SY FI VE D EE PS EX PE DI TIO N didn’t have the cash. “I’d wanted to build one for more than a decade,” Lahey explained ...

could find were bullet trains and American footballs. Both have an elliptical profile. He worked from there, ultimately creating ...

Exploring the Deeps From top: In the Mariana Trench; a new species of sea squirt in Java Trench. a retired U.S. Navy submarine c ...

Chill Factors Vescovo strategizing his attempt to reach the bottom of the Southern Ocean. scientist said after a particularly ha ...

specialized foam as the sub for buoyancy, would serve as navigation beacons for the craft on the seafloor, as well as supplement ...

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down because we’d come that far and I had a good shot,” he said. Their mission fully mapped the South Sandwich Trench in high re ...

5 ,^5 7 3 M E T E R S Vescovo spent four hours puttering around down there, searching for sea anemones and other life. That too ...

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we left a secret message on the moon. Among the roughly 400,000 pounds of human-made lunar detritus is a tiny ceramic wafer on a ...

outside carlsbad, new mexico, 2,150 feet underground in a salt formation, sits America’s atomic garbage can. There, defense- rel ...

generations from now, long after Big Ben has crum- bled and our calendars have disintegrated, the 10,000 Year Clock will still k ...