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Astronauts returning from six-month missions describe a persistent 'observer' sensation — the feeling of watching their own lives from a half-step outside the frame, weeks after they're back on the ground
What happened when engineers terraced a 640,000 square kilometre plateau whose yellow silt had been choking the world's muddiest river for millennia, and the sediment load fell by nearly 90 percent within two decades?
At around 30 years old, the human spinal discs begin losing water and compressing under gravity, shortening most people by about 1 centimetre per decade. On the International Space Station, astronauts float free of that load and grow up to 5 centimetres taller within weeks
When the Soviet Union sent the dog Laika into orbit in 1957, the public was told she had survived for days — but decades later it emerged that she had actually died within hours, after Sputnik 2's cabin overheated
