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An air traffic controller was found asleep under a blanket mid-shift at one of the world's top airports
A safety report found that the worker had worked seven night shifts in nine days. He was covered in…
Polly Thompson
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I'm a new mom and a recent cancer survivor. I have to make space for both the joy and the fear.
I'm a first-time mom and recently learned I was cancer-free. I worry about recurrence, but I also w…
Autumn Gavora
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The Supreme Court just made it easier for governments to remove unhoused people from public spaces
Homelessness in the US hit a record high last year, fueled in large part by the nation's severe sho…
Eliza Relman
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The mayor of Minneapolis joked that remote work turns you into a 'loser' with a 'nasty cat blanket'
Minneapolis is one of many cities in the US struggling to attract people back to its downtown area …
Sawdah Bhaimiya
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Starship's 3rd-launch success: Rocket finally soared to space without blowing up, but SpaceX lost it on reentry
SpaceX's Starship rocket successfully reached space on its third launch attempt, but it lost commun…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Mariann…
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Rep. Lauren Boebert produced a space blanket and covered her lap with it during Biden's address to Congress
The freshman lawmaker live-tweeted the speech from inside the House Chamber and visibly shook her h…
Erin Snodgrass
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Elon Musk's Starlink satellite internet is acquiring a license to provide blanket coverage to Britain, the Telegraph says
SpaceX's space internet venture would reach remote and rural areas in northern Britain, providing f…
Francis Agustin
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Traveling overnight? Use a packing cube as a pillow to save space and get some sleep.
Insider's travel reporter has taken several overnight trains and red-eye flights. Packing cubes hel…
Joey Hadden
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Five Apollo 11 technologies that NASA still uses 50 years after the first man landed on the moon
The technology and inventions that NASA developed along the way are still at play today. Most of…
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I took my 7 year-old neurodivergent son to the sensory room at the World Cup. He loved watching the matches in silence under a weighted blanket.
The author said this is the first World Cup to have sensory rooms for people like her neurodivergen…
Kathleen Porter Kristiansen
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All about Super-Earths, their dwarf stars and how they're more habitable than our earth
I'm a professor of astronomy who studies galactic cores, distant galaxies, astrobiology and ex…
PTI
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After years of dealing with lost luggage, I never check a bag. Here are 3 hacks I use to save space in my carry-on.
After one too many lost-luggage incidents, an Insider reporter reveals how she saves space in her c…
Talia Lakritz
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Elon Musk's Starlink satellites are ruining images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, threatening future science
Hubble has sunk to an orbit among the satellites, including SpaceX's growing Starlink constellation…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA's Perseverance rover captured images of its own litter, and it shows how Mars is becoming a junkyard
The Perseverance team took pictures of a thermal blanket used during its landing. Space junk is a g…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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How Mylar blankets went from cutting-edge space technology to a polarizing symbol of the US-Mexico border crisis
Silver space blankets have been used in marathons and rescue operations. But recently, the sheets h…
Hannah Jiang,Robin Lindsay
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The storage hack you should skip in your small space, according to an interior designer
Although storage baskets are cute, they can waste square footage in a small space, according to an …
Samantha Grindell
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A piece of space debris punched a tiny hole in the International Space Station, damaging a robotic arm
Scientists monitor more than 23,000 pieces of space junk that could threaten satellites and the spa…
Aylin Woodward
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Get ready for the great American land rush — a mad scramble for space that's going to transform the entire country
It could require hundreds of millions of acres to build all the new homes, warehouses, and wind far…
Matthew Kahn,Robert Huang
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Arctic sea ice thinning twice as fast than expected, say researchers
Sea ice in the coastal regions of the Arctic may be thinning up to twice as fast as previously thou…