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In this handout photo released by Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre (GCTC) and the Roscosmos space agency, NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, center, reacts after landing near the town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, Oct. 22, 2020.
Science & Technology
Cassidy from space: ‘Looking down at Earth, it’s just this blue ball of peace’
Cuarón’s Gravity & Untitled Film Stills
Full Episode
Alfonso Cuarón & Laura Cantrell
Full Episode
Arts, Culture & Media
Alfonso Cuarón Defies Gravity
Arts, Culture & Media
Oscar Nominations Can’t Help But Please, Disappoint
Arts, Culture & Media
Studio 360 Goes to the Oscars
Ballet
Arts
Tendues and torque
Media
The very real science behind ‘The Expanse’
Tettegouche State Park in Minnesota
Technology
The Midcontinent Rift could have split North America apart a billion years ago. Why didn’t it?
A frame from a simulation of the merger of two black holes and the resulting emission of gravitational radiation (colored fields, which represent a component of the curvature of space-time). The yellow areas near the black holes do not correspond to physi
Science
Listen to the collision of two black holes. Einstein was right.
The clock in Grand Central Station in New York.
Science
How do you explain the leap second to a 6-year-old?
A screenshot from a NASA video explaining the development of the zero-gravity cup.
Science
A zero-gravity cup lets astronauts get a handle on their coffee
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Arts, Culture & Media
In Hollywood, superheroes are still a boy’s club
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Arts, Culture & Media
In Hollywood, superheroes are still a boy’s club
Gravity: What’s Up Is Down