Help Star Trek’s Lieutenant Uhura in This Probability Puzzle | Quanta Magazine

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In honor of the actor and activist Nichelle Nichols, this month’s puzzle imagines a Star Trek adventure in which her character, Lieutenant Uhura, faces a life-and-death conundrum.

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Biruté Galdikas's life with orangutans—and the iconic story that helped change their fate

National Geographic Explorer Biruté Galdikas was the third of the so-called Trimates, alongside Explorers Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall. She spent thousands of hours in the jungles of Borneo for the first long-term study of orangutans. Her findings changed how we saw these incredible animals, and made for one of National Geographic’s most iconic covers.

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Outside Magazine

Lewis and Clark’s Dog Helped Usher In a New Era of Pet Ownership

A new book on the famed expedition sheds light on the Newfoundland who accompanied the two explorers on their transcontinental journey The post Lewis and Clark’s Dog Helped Usher In a New Era of Pet Ownership appeared first on Outside Online.

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The Conversation

Nasa names Artemis III crew, but a rocket explosion has thrown US Moon plans into turmoil

The New Glenn explosion could seriously delay the timetable for returning to the Moon.

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Andrea Wulf Considers the Rare Humanity of an Eighteenth-Century Naturalist

A gunshot pierced the calm. Then there was silence, followed by sounds of a commotion. A man came running towards them, but turned and hid in a bush as soon as he saw George Forster and his companion. Other islanders they

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National Geographic

NASA announces the astronauts for the next Artemis mission. Here's what they'll be doing.

Commander Randy Bresnik and three others will attempt to dock with two different lunar landers in Earth orbit, paving the way for a future moon landing.

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