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In 1994, a bushwalker rappelling into a sandstone canyon 150 kilometres from Sydney found a stand of trees with waxy bubbled bark that matched fossils 90 million years old, and the Wollemi pine turned out to be a species everyone had assumed died with th - Space DailySpace Daily · Sun, 09 Aug 2026 03:09:33 GMTMore than three decades after the genocide, Rwanda has the highest share of women in a lower or single chamber of parliament of any country, and it is not close — 51 of 80 seats, 63.75%, against a global average of about 27%. The constitutional floor is 30 - Space DailySpace Daily · Sun, 09 Aug 2026 03:00:50 GMTIn 1977, Carl Sagan and Frank Drake sat in a Cornell office arguing over what to put on the Voyager Golden Record, and among the greetings in 55 languages, the whale song, and the Bach they included the sound of a young woman's brainwaves recorded w - Space DailySpace Daily · Sun, 09 Aug 2026 02:56:30 GMT10 small phrases parents use when they've given up trying to be understood by their adult children - Space DailySpace Daily · Sun, 09 Aug 2026 02:38:04 GMTOn August 12, for the first time in 28 months, the Moon's shadow will sweep across Earth in a total solar eclipse over Greenland, Iceland and Spain — and just hours later, the Perseid meteor shower will peak under a moonless sky, setting up one of the most ex - Space DailySpace Daily · Sun, 09 Aug 2026 02:22:27 GMTArchaeologists examining a 1,600-year-old Egyptian mummy found something no one had ever seen before: a page of Homer's Iliad, used as embalming material — meaning one of the most famous poems in human history spent sixteen centuries wrapped ar - Space DailySpace Daily · Sun, 09 Aug 2026 01:32:56 GMTEvery commercial jet flying today gets struck by lightning roughly once a year — a 200,000-ampere bolt courses through the fuselage and exits via the tail, and most passengers land at their destination never knowing it happened - Space DailySpace Daily · Sun, 09 Aug 2026 01:30:00 GMTThe Soviet Buran shuttle flew exactly once, in November 1988, completing two unmanned orbits and landing itself in a crosswind on a Kazakh runway with such precision that engineers found it stopped within 3 metres of the centreline — and then the program - Space DailySpace Daily · Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:55:53 GMT