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VPNs Will Be Useless On A Quantum Internet – Your Location Can Always Be Known
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VPNs Will Be Useless On A Quantum Internet – Your Location Can Always Be Known

Thanks to entanglement, you can verify if someone is who they say they are.

The Moon Might Be More Prone To Fires
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The Moon Might Be More Prone To Fires

Engineers love a good practical challenge, especially when it comes to spaceflight. But there’s one particular challenge facing the crewed missions of the near future that scares mission planners above almost all others - fire. For decades, we’ve relied on a NASA test known as NASA-STD-6001B to screen material flammability for flight. But space is much more complicated than an Earth-bound test provides for. A new paper from researchers at NASA’s Glenn Research Center and Johnson Space Center and Case Western Reserve University details a planned mission to test the flammability of materials on the Moon’s surface - where they expect flame to act much differently than it does here on Earth.

Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains How You Can't Believe In Flat Earth If You've Ever Seen A Lunar Eclipse
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains How You Can't Believe In Flat Earth If You've Ever Seen A Lunar Eclipse

Unfortunately, this here is a sight no human will ever see, due to the failure of the "pancake Earth" hypothesis.

In 1984, A NASA Astronaut Flew Untethered To Capture A Satellite And The Footage Is Totally Terrifying
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In 1984, A NASA Astronaut Flew Untethered To Capture A Satellite And The Footage Is Totally Terrifying

This video is not for the faint-hearted or sweaty-palmed.

Scarlet Fever Bacterium Discovered In Pre-Columbian Mummy, Suggesting Disease Was Present In Americas Long Before Europeans Arrived
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Scarlet Fever Bacterium Discovered In Pre-Columbian Mummy, Suggesting Disease Was Present In Americas Long Before Europeans Arrived

The researchers stumbled upon the pathogen by accident, but decided to dig into its genome due to its recent resurgence.