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The First Video Game Came Long Before Pong(iflscience.com)

19 points by geox 9 months ago | 4 comments

Astrophotographer snaps skydiver falling in front of the sun(iflscience.com)

443 points by doener 11 months ago | 86 comments

IFLScience article about an astrophotographer's image capturing a skydiver silhouetted against the sun, titled 'The Fall of Icarus'.

Voyager 1 is a light-day away by November 2026(iflscience.com)

196 points by Neuronaut 11 months ago | 62 comments

The “Wow!” signal was likely from extraterrestrial source, and more powerful(iflscience.com)

192 points by toss1 1 year ago | 198 comments

NASA's Voyager Found a 30k-50k Kelvin "Wall" at the Edge of Solar System(iflscience.com)

207 points by world2vec 1 year ago | 143 comments

In 1924, the US Turned Off Their Radios to Search for Life on Mars(iflscience.com)

14 points by pizza 1 year ago | 2 comments

Antarctica's Ozone Hole Is Healing and Set to Recover by 2066(iflscience.com)

63 points by wjSgoWPm5bWAhXB 2 years ago | 3 comments

Dropped Cheetos Could Have Triggered Ecosystem Chaos in Largest US Cave Chamber(iflscience.com)

28 points by austinallegro 2 years ago | 4 comments

The World Will Soon Witness "One of the Rarest Space Events of Our Lives"(iflscience.com)

34 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 20 comments

The United States Just Grew by 1M Square Kilometers in Size(iflscience.com)

19 points by danboarder 2 years ago | 13 comments

BrainGPT turns thoughts into text(iflscience.com)

318 points by 11thEarlOfMar 2 years ago | 180 comments

IFLScience article about BrainGPT, a system that decodes brain signals into on-screen text, offering hope for people unable to communicate otherwise.

Stars Have Vanished Without a Trace. Where Did They Go?(iflscience.com)

18 points by samspenc 3 years ago | 10 comments

Life has been found beneath hydrothermal vents for the first time(iflscience.com)

150 points by geox 3 years ago | 48 comments

The world’s largest wind turbine has been switched on(iflscience.com)

140 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 142 comments

What it’s like to fall into the deadly Australian plant, gympie-gympie(iflscience.com)

79 points by anotherevan 3 years ago | 63 comments