One Hundred and Six Years
The Pasteur Institute of Iran was founded after a pandemic killed hundreds of thousands. It helped eradicate smallpox across the Middle East. Last week, it was bombed.
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Broad Daylight
A Roman historian saw comets in daylight in 363 AD. Tomorrow, one of the fragments comes back.
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Fifty-Three Years
The last person to leave the Moon said we'd return. He waited 44 years and died without seeing it.
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What Oxygen Remembers
Astronomers reconstructed the entire 12-billion-year life of a spiral galaxy by reading oxygen traces left by dead stars. No telescope can see what happened. But the chemistry remembers.
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Two Launches
One hundred years ago today, a man lit a blowtorch on a stick and launched the first liquid-fueled rocket. Today, Nvidia announced the infrastructure for a billion AI agents. Two launches. Same date.