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Watch the World’s Largest Shark Tank on Live Webcam
From now until Aug. 7, you can swim with sharks from your desk, thanks to a live webcam embedded in the world’s largest shark tank.
NASA’s Glorious History of Training Astronauts
NASA has used some crazy, awesome, and frightening astronaut-training strategies over the years. From underwater EVA training to wilderness survival training, here are some of the best.
The Space Shuttle Program’s Oddest Passengers
With the final space shuttle scheduled to launch July 8 carrying an iPhone and a mutant strain of salmonella, we’re taking a look at some of the strangest things that have ridden along with the shuttle astronauts into space
The Cutting-Edge Physics of Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock, famous for his deceptively random-seeming drip paintings, took advantage of certain features of fluid dynamics years before physicists thought to study them.
Lady of the Rings: Chat With Saturn Surveyor Carolyn Porco
Carolyn Porco’s imaging team for the Cassini satellite mission to Saturn discovered that one of Saturn??s icy moons, Enceladus, is spurting salty water full of compounds like propane, benzene, hydrogen sulfide and formaldehyde. The discovery vaulted Enceladus to the top of many astrobiologists?? wish lists for the next place to look for life in the solar system.