After revival, Iran’s great salt lake faces new peril

In 1968, the USSR developed the FM-2 Phantom Mannequin to study the effects of cosmic radiation on the human body. The sculptors used the likeness of Yuri Gagarin, the first human to fly to space, for the robot's face. FM-2 flew around the moon during the Zond-7 mission in 1969.

Study reveals extent of human impact on the world's plant-life

Black Hole-Neutron Star Mergers May Help Precisely Measure Universe’s Rate of Expansion