Popular Science USA – July-August 2019

LANGUAGE DECODER according to the united nations,half the languages spoken today will disappear the Rosetta Disk, like their nam ...

the hoover dam was dedicated on September 30, 1935. You’d know this if you could read the 20-foot-diameter celestial map surroun ...

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First, though, he had to deal with Mission Control. Anderson had come aboard the ISS with the explicit goal of improving pro- ce ...

THERE’S NO SPACE LIKE HOME ¶ For 13 years, 20 astronauts typed their joy, pain, an- noyance, elation, boredom, anger, contentmen ...

¶ Stuster has spent much of his 40- plus-year career analyzing how humans handle objectively un- pleasant exploration by land, s ...

penguin meat, which prevented further breakdowns in a broken situation. Ritual, structure, exercise, sensation, and sustenance s ...

by the time Stuster’s initial study began in 2003, crews had been doing stints on the ISS since 2000. The austere conditions now ...

10 years of research on the ISS and Mir as- tronauts. “You have a boss who tells you to do something, you can’t tell him off. Yo ...

By Mara Hvistendahl Illustrations by Francesca Baerald Not everyone believes our planet is a sphere. Welcome to flat Earth. ...

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THE MOOD OF THE CROWD gathered alongside a highway just outside Denver is euphoric. Around 75 people stand in the brush beneath ...

center of a flat disc, with the continents fanning out around it, and Antarctica forming the disc’s icy cir- cumference.) Sargen ...

watch many of them. A cursory introductory clip asserting that the planet is a stationary disc, with the sun and the moon circli ...

astrophysicist at the European Space Agency, asking for in- put. The scientist replied, but eventually stopped respond- ing. “It ...

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81 compelling as the alternative. And for would-be converts the movement calls “flat-curious,” science communicators can come ac ...

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