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◆VOYAGER 1: After five months of transmitting gibberish from 24 billion kilometres away, NASA's engineers — some brought out of retirement — fixed it◆OPERATION PAPERCLIP: The US government recruited over 1,600 Nazi scientists after the war, falsified their records, and handed them the space programme◆DART MISSION: NASA crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid and moved it 25 times more than predicted — the ejecta effect has rewritten planetary defence models◆BETELGEUSE: The star dimmed by two-thirds in 2019 and astronomers thought it was about to explode. The real explanation was stranger.◆SOVIET WOODPECKER: For 13 years, a mysterious signal jammed the world's radios. Its source was a massive radar array next to Chernobyl.◆STARGATE PROJECT: The CIA funded psychic spy research for 23 years. The 1995 evaluation found statistically significant results that nobody could explain.◆VOYAGER 1: After five months of transmitting gibberish from 24 billion kilometres away, NASA's engineers — some brought out of retirement — fixed it◆OPERATION PAPERCLIP: The US government recruited over 1,600 Nazi scientists after the war, falsified their records, and handed them the space programme◆DART MISSION: NASA crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid and moved it 25 times more than predicted — the ejecta effect has rewritten planetary defence models◆BETELGEUSE: The star dimmed by two-thirds in 2019 and astronomers thought it was about to explode. The real explanation was stranger.◆SOVIET WOODPECKER: For 13 years, a mysterious signal jammed the world's radios. Its source was a massive radar array next to Chernobyl.◆STARGATE PROJECT: The CIA funded psychic spy research for 23 years. The 1995 evaluation found statistically significant results that nobody could explain.

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SCIENCE & SPACE

Voyager 1 Went Silent for Five Months in 2023. NASA Wasn't Sure It Was Coming Back.

Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 is the most distant human-made object in existence. Last year, it started sending back gibberish. The engineers who fixed it are in their seventies.

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MILITARY & WAR

Operation Paperclip: How the United States Recruited Over 1,600 Nazi Scientists After the War

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HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY

The Antikythera Mechanism Is 2,000 Years Old. We're Still Working Out What It Could Do.

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SCIENCE & SPACE

Betelgeuse Dimmed So Dramatically in 2019 That Astronomers Thought It Might Be About to Explode

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SCIENCE & SPACE

NASA Crashed a Spacecraft Into an Asteroid on Purpose. It Worked Better Than Anyone Expected.

The DART mission moved Dimorphos 25 times more than predicted. The ejecta effect has rewritten planetary defence strategy.

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MILITARY & WAR

The Soviet Woodpecker: The Cold War Signal That Jammed the World's Radios for a Decade

A mysterious repetitive signal disrupted shortwave communications worldwide from 1976 to 1989. Its source was a massive radar array next to Chernobyl.

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HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY

The Easter Island Statues Walked. The Evidence Has Been There the Whole Time.

The Rapa Nui people always said the moai walked to their platforms. Western researchers dismissed it as myth for decades. They were wrong.

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MILITARY & WAR

The Stargate Project: The CIA Spent 20 Years Investigating Psychic Spies

The 1995 independent evaluation found statistically significant results that its own investigators couldn't fully explain. The programme is closed. The question isn't.

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