The bootprints Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin pressed into the Sea of Tranquility on 20 July 1969 will still be visible roughly a million years from now, because the Moon has no wind, no rain and no biology to wear a footprint away — only micrometeorites slowly gardening the regolith around them

The bootprints Armstrong and Aldrin left in the Sea of Tranquility on 20 July 1969 are still crisp today, and will remain recognisable roughly a million years from now. The Moon has no wind, no rain and no biology to wear them away — only micrometeorites, working with tweezers on a geological clock.

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The bootprints Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin pressed into the Sea of Tranquility on 20 July 1969 will still be visible roughly a million years from now, because the Moon has no wind, no rain and no biology to wear a footprint away — only micrometeorites slowly gardening the regolith around them

Nobody talks about why the most competent person in many workplaces often ends up the most resentful, and it isn't always ego or burnout, it's the slow realization that competence gets you more work, not more freedom

Pronghorn have nearly 360-degree vision and can spot movement up to four miles away across Wyoming sagebrush

A cruising Mars spacecraft has to manage extreme heat and cold on the same flight

On 12 April 1961, Yuri Gagarin completed a single 90-minute orbit of Earth aboard Vostok 1, and by November 2021 ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer had become the 600th human to leave the planet, a tally the ocean floor has never come close to matching

A CROZEX study in the sub-Antarctic Southern Ocean measured carbon sinking to three kilometres below the surface and found naturally iron-fertilised waters exported two to three times more carbon than adjacent nutrient-rich patches without the iron

In 1954, engineers at the Obninsk plant southwest of Moscow connected a 5-megawatt graphite-moderated reactor to the Soviet grid and became the first station anywhere to sell nuclear electricity to paying customers, nearly three years before the West managed the same feat at Calder Hall.

Vietnam, Philippines slam China garrison plan

Unique 2-level cathode structure improves battery performance

US urges Mexican climate action ahead of UN talks

A pumped-hydro station in Wales moves 7.2 million cubic metres of water up a mountain at night and releases it through six turbines in the morning, delivering roughly 1,728 megawatts to the grid within 12 seconds of the operator pressing the start button

In 1901, workers at Spindletop in Texas struck oil at roughly 340 metres and could not cap the well for nine days as it spewed an estimated 100,000 barrels a day, more than every other producing well in the United States combined, and helped launch the age of cheap petroleum

Titan's atmosphere is roughly four times denser than Earth's while its gravity is only one-seventh as strong, which means a human standing on Saturn's largest moon could strap wings to their arms and, in principle, take off under their own muscle power

Scientists develop a cheaper method that might help create fuels from plants

Scientists make methanol using air around us

Rubbish reform: changes to waste management could slash emissions

Recycling carbon emissions to useful chemicals and reducing global warming

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