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Private Space Flight
For nearly $500,000, you too can have dinner in the ‘SpaceBalloon’ above Earth
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Popular Science Videos
Uranus is a grizzly bear: Understanding planet mass using animals
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Agriculture
Scientists propose eating more python
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Popular Science Videos
Watch us try to make ‘Butler in a Box’ work like it’s 1983
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Announcements
Big news: Popular Science is back on YouTube
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International Space Station
NASA’s astronaut applications are open again. Do you have what it takes?
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Deep Space
Listen to three breathtaking NASA images
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Biology
Why we don’t have tails
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Science
Why leap years exist
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Engineering