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Mars One narrows applicant pool to 1,058 in first cut for 2025 colonization mission

Mars One, the organization attempting to send small teams of astronauts on a one-way trip to Mars, has made its first round of applicant decisions, selecting just over 1,000 people to move on to the next stage of what it hopes will be a decade-long, televised training and colonization mission. Today, 1,058 of the roughly 200,000 people who applied were told that they had made the cut. Between 2014 and 2015, all but a few dozen of those will be weeded out, leaving a final set of four-person teams that will theoretically begin heading to Mars by 2025. Before then, though, there’s a long process of testing, prototyping, and fundraising ahead of the company.

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'Body Atlas' shows where emotions hit the hardest

Finnish researchers have attempted to pinpoint the ways in which our emotions affect our bodies. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, asked 773 participants to indicate how certain emotionally charged materials made them feel. The researchers argue that human bodies feel emotions in broadly consistent ways.

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Familiar and comforting

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Artist Name: Danner Milliken. SYBUR GLASSIZ. Original. 38.53” x 34”in, $808.

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Rising Water

Looming up from the waters, these submerged towers are the only visible remains of communities that existed before a flood. These bell towers and peaks of churches are the last signs that where now there is a reservoir, there was for hundreds of years a town.

From Italy to Russia, Spain to Venezuela, these drowned towers refused to sink below the waves, even when the world around then was suddenly underwater:

Submerged Towers: The Only Survivors of Their Flooded Towns